Hail, Charles
- When
- May 5, 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Charles County, Bryans Road
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.633, -77.067
Dime sized hail fell.
Hail in Maryland, May 5, 2001
Scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of the 5th. One thunderstorm that moved through Charles County produced dime sized hail at Bryans Road.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- 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 LWX wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of the 5th. One thunderstorm that moved through Charles County produced dime sized hail at Bryans Road.
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 Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 5, 2:10 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:10 PM EST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 310 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2001 SFC CDFNT SRN EDGE OF CWFA. H8 FNT ACRS NRN TIER. TSRA FIRING ALNG EA BNDRY. ATM CONDUSIVE TO KEEPING THESE GOING THRU SUNSET. BHD H8 FNT...ATMOS MUCH MORE STBL. THUS...WL KEEP POPS GOING 1ST PD TIL ITS PASSAGE. FOR THE REST OF THE WKND...MDLS IN GOOD AGREEMENT. CNDN HIPRES SQUEEZES DWN CST...PROMOTING CLRG SKIES. FEW ADJUSTMNTS FM PREV FCST. ALTHO FLW MARITIME...DOESNT APPR TO BE MUCH LIFT. THUS...MDT AMTS OF CLDCVR AND COOLER TEMPS...BUT NOT MUCH RAFL. HV TAPERED BACK POPS SUN-MON. ALSO...WENT MORE OPTIMISTIC FOR SUNSHN IN CSTL PLAIN. WHR POPS DIFFERED 3RD-4TH PDS...WENT COOL SIDE OF BLEND. XTNDD ABT THE SAME...W/ NXT SYSTM...AND A LTL BTTR CHC FOR RA...FOR MIDWEEK. FULL PKG BY 2000 UTC. LATER- FCSTID = 50...HTS DCA 55 68 46 66 / 10 10 10 5 BWI 53 68 44 66 / 10 10 10 5 MRB 50 65 41 65 / 10 10 10 5 IAD 52 68 42 65 / 10 10 10 5 CHO 57 65 45 65 / 30 20 20 10 HGR 47 64 38 63 / 10 10 10 5 NHK 57 66 46 63 / 20 10 10 5 .LWX... DC...NONE. MD...NONE. VA...NUONE. WV...NONE.
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
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- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 5 to 6, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Maryland in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, 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: 5248024.