Hail, Kennebec
- When
- June 10, 1:43 PM EST
- Where
- Kennebec County, Mt Vernon
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -69.983
Hail in Maine, June 10, 2001
Thunderstorms moving across New Hampshire and Maine produced numerous reports of small hail across the state. In Mt.
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
- None recorded
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS GYX wrote it up.
Thunderstorms moving across New Hampshire and Maine produced numerous reports of small hail across the state. In Mt. Vernon, penny-sized hail was reported.
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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 12:58 PM EST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 12:58 PM EST, 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 158 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2001 SCT SHWRS/TSTMS ACRS MOST OF FA. A FEW HAVE POPPED UP AND DROPPED SM HAIL BUT QUICKLY SETTLED DOWN. THIS ACTVTY WL CONT INTO THE EVE AS A WK S/W DROPS SE ALNG THE E SIDE OF THE RIDGE. MOST OF THE TSTM ACTVTY HAS BEEN ALNG THE INVOF THE CDFNT. HI PRES BUILDS IN FOR LTR TNGT AND ERY MON BUT THAT TIGHT VORT MAX IN THE GTLAKES WL BRING MORE WIDESPRD SHWRS FOR LTR MON INTO MON NGT. MODLS ARE CONVERGING ON TIMING SOLN BUT THE AVN STILL THE FASTEST AND ETA HAS SPEEDED UP. WL BOOST POPS FOR WRN SXNS TO LKLY AND INTRODUCE A CHC BY EVE ELSW. MARINE WNDS WL FLIRT WTH SCA DURG MON AFTN AS GRADIENT TITENS. .GYX...NIL TEB
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:45 UTC.
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 and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 10, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, June 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 10, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 10 to 11, 2001
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, June 10, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 10, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 10, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, June 10, 2001
- Flooding in Georgia, June 10, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 10, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Maine in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, June 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: 5256265.