Hail, Harrison
- When
- May 11, 7:05 PM EST
- Where
- Harrison County, Sugar Grove
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 38.117, -85.917
Several cars were damaged by hail.
Hail in Indiana, May 11, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 11, 12:45 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 12:45 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 145 PM EDT FRI MAY 11 2001 ADVERTISED TRANSITION INTO COOLER AND DRIER AIR MASS XPCTD THIS EVENING AND SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY ALONG AND IN ADVANCE OF FRNTL SYS AS IT PRESSES INTO THE LWR OH VLY. AM NOT OVERLY IMPRESSED WITH INTNS TSTM CHC/S BUT...MNTN NEEDS TO BE MADE IN 1ST PD OF ZFP...A FEW STORMS MAY BE MARGINALLY SEVERE. LI/S AT ERY AFTN ALREADY IN THE MINUS 4 TO MINUS 6 RANGE LOW LVL MOISTURE IS ADEQUATE. MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH PATTERN...BRINING THUNDERSTORMS INTO NORTHERN PARTS OF FORECAST AREA INTO THE WEE HOURS. AS DRIER AIR OVERSPREADS THE AREA ON SATURDAY...SHOWERS WILL END OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS WITH DECREASING CLOUDS ACROSS THE AREA. WILL USE A BLEND OF MAV AND FWC MOS TO PRODUCE FCST. .SDF...NONE. CONGER
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail in Texas, May 11 to 12, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 11 to 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 11 to 12, 2001
- Wildfire in California, May 11, 2001
- Hail in Texas, May 11, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, May 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 11, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 11, 2001
- Flooding in Missouri, May 11 to 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 11, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, May 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5244044.