Hail, Barnstable
- When
- July 17, 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Barnstable County, Eastham
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 41.833, -69.967
Hail in Massachusetts, July 17, 2001
An isolated severe thunderstorm dropped quarter-sized hail in Eastham.
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 BOX wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm dropped quarter-sized hail in Eastham.
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 Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 17, 8:55 AM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 8:55 AM EST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 955 AM EDT TUE JUL 17 2001 SHOWERS AND OCNL TSTMS MOVING THROUGH THE F/A THIS MORNING AS EXPECTED. RADARS SHOW MORE PCPN IN NYS MOVING EWD TWD SRN NEW ENGLAND. SO CURRENT FCST OF SHOWERS/CHC TSTMS LOOKS FINE. CURRENT TEMPS IN THE 60S AND L70S...WITH CLDS AND PCPN EXPECTED ALL AFTN. CURRENT TEMPS RUNNING 3-5 DEG COOLER THAN FCST BY MOS. SAT PIX DON/T SHOW MANY BREAKS UPSTREAM...AND 06Z FCST MODELS SHOW DEEP MOISTURE AND LIFT THRU AFTN. WL CHOP BACK MAX TEMPS TO ARND 70...MID 70S ALONG S COAST WHERE TEMPS ARE ALREADY IN THE L70S. FINAL DECISIONS ON TEMPS WILL BE MADE FROM 10 AM OBS. MARINE...TWEAKING THE WsIND DIRECTIONS A LTL BUT NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED. .BOX...NONE. WTB/NS
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:57 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 Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 17 to 18, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 17 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 17, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, July 17, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 17 to 31, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 17, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 17, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 17, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, July 17, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 17 to 18, 2001
More
Every storm in Massachusetts in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Massachusetts, July 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: 5258431.