Hail, Piscataquis
- When
- June 11, 2:15 PM EST
- Where
- Piscataquis County, 50 mi NE of Greenville
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.983, -68.867
Hail in Maine, June 11, 2001
The hail accumulated to a depth of 12 inches at Chamberlain Lake.
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 CAR wrote it up.
The hail accumulated to a depth of 12 inches at Chamberlain Lake.
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 Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 1:53 PM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:53 PM EST, 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 253 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A WARM FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN AREA TONIGHT. A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE JUST SOUTH OF THE BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR AREA LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. DISCUSSION... MAIN FACTORS WILL BE TSRA POTNTL INTO TNGT & HOW MUCH QPF ESP DOWNEAST W/SYSM MOVG THRU NYS. WILL BE RELYING ON THE ETA THRU 36 HRS & THEN A BLEND OF ETA-AVN BEYOND 36 HR TIME FRAME. SHRA/TSRA POPPING OVER NRN MOST ZNS IN VCNTY OF WM FNT. WE HAVE MID/UPPER 70S OVER MID 50S DWPTS IN THAT RGN. FURTHER S TWD DOWNEAST ME...NOT MUCH GOING ATTM. FOCUS WILL SHIFT FM N TO S TNGT AS VIGOROUS VORT MAX MOVE ACRS NYS & ASSOCD SFC LOW MOVE E ARCS SRN NEW ENG. WILL KP SHRA/TSRA GOING THRU 04Z NRN CWFA & WILL BRING SHRA W/PSBL TSRA OVER DOWNEAST ME LATER TNGT. BULK OF THE QPF WILL BE GEARED TWD GYX/BOX CWFA IN VCNTY OF SFC LOW/VORT CENTER. WILL CONT THE PRVS TREND OF LIKELY POPS DOWNEAST & SCTD POPS N TNGT. CHCY POPS IN LINE FOR TUE. UPPER S/WV & H8 TROF TO SWING ACRS THE CWFA ON TUE W/SCTD SHRA STILL PSBL. WILL MNTN THREAT FOR TSRA OVER NRN MOST ZNS WHR MD SNDGS SHOW CONTD INSTABILITY. INFLUENCE OF MARINE AIR WILL LIMIT CONVECTION DOWNEAST. WK IMPULSE PROGGED TO MOVE ACRS NRN CWFA TUE NGT INTO EARLY WED MRNG. NOT MUCH SUPPORT FOR ANYTHG XCPT SOME CLDS. HAVE DECIDED TO GO W/FG ESP DOWNEAST TUE NGT-EARLY WED W/CONTD SLY FLOW IN BLYR. MORE IN THE WAY OF PATCHY FOG FOR NRN ZNS TUE NGT-WED MRNG. COLUMN CONTS WARMS SIGNIFICANTLY ON WED W/MAXES HITTING LOWER 80S NRN/CNTL AREAS W/DOWNEAST & ESP CST BEING COOLER DUE TO WIND COMING OFF COOLER GULF OF ME WTRS. AVN/ECMWF FM SUN HAVE FNTL BNDRY MOVG ACRS THE CWFA. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF UPPER SUPPORT. HOWEVER...WE DO HAVE INCG DWPTS PROGGED TO GO INTO THE 55-60 RNG W/AMBIENT TEMPS NEAR 80. BNDRY COULD AID IN SOME LLVL CONVERGENCE. BEST SHOT FOR ANY SHRA/TSRA LOOKS TO BE FAR NRN ZNS WHR BEST UPPER SUPPORT WILL BE LOCATED. ATTM...WILL LEAN AWAY FM ANY POPS ON WED. TEMPS/POPS WILL REFLECT THE ETA TNGT-TUE. BEYOND THAT HAVE TAKEN A BLEND OF MAV/ETA NMBRS. EXTENDED PD: LARGE UPPER RDG WILL MOVE OVER THE RGN W/CONTD SUMMER-LIKE WX INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE WKEND. SERIES OF WK VORTICES TRY TO CUT THRU THE RDG W/LITTLE IN THE WAY OF FANFARE. WILL CONT THE TREND OF DRY FCST THRU FRI. RDG AXIS GETS BUCKLED A BIT ON SAT PER LONG RNG GUID W/FNTL SYSM MOVG OUT THE GREAT LAKES TWD THE CWFA ON SAT. WILL CONT SHRA POTNTL. COASTAL WATERS...NO FLAGS THRU THE 48 HR W/SPDS REACHING ARND 20 KTS LATER TNGT-TUE. SPDS WILL COME DOWN TO ARND 15 KTS LATE IN THE DAY ON TUE AS SYSM MOVG ACRSY SRN NEW ENG PASSES ON THRU. .CAR...NONE. JAH
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:12 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
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 11 to 12, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 11, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Heat in Texas, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, June 11, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 11, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, June 11 to 12, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, June 11 to 12, 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: 5246504.