Hail, Chippewa
- When
- May 17, 5:50 PM EST
- Where
- Chippewa County, Paradise
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 46.633, -85.033
Hail in Michigan, May 17, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 May 17, 5:25 PM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 5:25 PM EST, 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 625 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2001 ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED AHEAD OF COLD FRONT ACROSS EASTERN WI...AND THESE ARE NOW MOVING EAST ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN. THUS...UPDATED NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN ZONES TO INCLUDE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. ALSO...UPSTREAM SURFACE OBS/SATELLITE TRENDS SHOWING GUSTY WINDS/CLEARING/RISING TEMPS IN WAKE OF COLD FRONT SUGGEST THAT SUBSIDENCE IS PUSHING HIGHER MOMENTUM AIR TO THE SURFACE. PER LATEST TRENDS...THESE STRONGER WINDS SHOULD IMPACT N/W COUNTIES THIS EVENING...SO BUMPED UP WINDS ACCORDINGLY ACROSS THE N/W...WITH STRONGEST WINDS ACROSS THE EASTERN UP FOR A PERIOD THIS EVENING. .APX...NONE. ROWLEY
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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, May 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, May 17 to 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, May 17 to 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, May 17, 2001
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, 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: 5246204.