Name: Hail in Michigan, August 30, 2001
Start: 2001-08-30T21:53
End: 2001-08-30T21:53
Location: Michigan

Where it happened

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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 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 Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 9:15 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 9:15 PM EST, 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
1015 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001

INITIAL COLD FRONT WAS PUSHING INTO THE EASTERN UP AND ACROSS
EASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN...WHILE A SECONDARY COLD FRONT WAS PRESSING
SOUTH ACROSS N/W LAKE SUPERIOR.

AHEAD OF THE INITIAL FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN...A LINE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED JUST NW OF AN APN TO HTL
LINE...MOVING EAST. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH
MISSAUKEE/ROSCOMMON COUNTIES...COUNTIES...WITHIN WEAKENING NORTHERN
ARM OF A LEWP. PER LAPS DATA DEPICTING HIGHEST CAPES...1100 TO 1500
J/KG...SOUTH OF M-55...WILL MONITOR THAT AREA...ESPECIALLY
GLADWIN/ARENAC COUNTIES...FOR THE POTENTIAL OF STRONG WIND GUSTS
UNTIL MIDNIGHT. FARTHER NORTH...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN
AN AXIS OF CAPES AROUND 1000 J/KG HAVE REMAINED WELL BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS FOR THE PAST FEW HOURS...AND THEY SHOULD TEND TO WEAKEN AS
THEY PUSH INTO MORE STABLE AIR...CAPES AS LOW AS 500 J/KG...ALONG
THE LAKE HURON SHORELINE.

ASSOCIATED WITH SECONDARY FRONT...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE MOVING SE
ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR.

FORECAST UPDATE WILL KEY ON POSITION OF ONGOING LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS...AND ON PROGRESS OF SECONDARY FRONT OVERNIGHT.
WILL FORECAST SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ENDING ACROSS THE SE. ACROSS
THE EASTERN UP...18Z MESOETA/0Z RUC SUGGEST THAT COVERAGE OF SHOWERS
ALONG SECONDARY FRONT WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT AS UPPER JET AXIS
SETTLES SE OF LAKE SUPERIOR...BUT RESIDUAL MOISTURE WILL JUSTIFY
MENTION OF ISOLATED SHOWERS ACROSS THE EASTERN UP. IN
BETWEEN...ACROSS N/W COUNTIES OF NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN...
APPEARS THAT INITIAL FROPA WILL BE DRY. ISOLATED SHOWERS COULD SPILL
INTO THE REGION BEFORE 12Z AS SECONDARY FRONT PUSHES INTO THE
REGION...BUT THIS WILL LIKELY HAPPEN AFTER 9Z...IF AT ALL...SO WILL
LEAVE TO MID SHIFT TO MONITOR TRENDS AND POSSIBLY ADD POPS FARTHER
SOUTH FOR EARLY FRIDAY.

.APX...NONE.

ROWLEY

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:50 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Arenac

When: August 30, 9:53 PM EST
Where: Arenac County, Standish
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.983, -83.967

Scattered strong to severe storms developed along a cold front.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5267434.