Hail in New Hampshire, July 12, 2001

Name: Hail in New Hampshire, July 12, 2001
Start: 2001-07-12T14:20
End: 2001-07-12T14:20
Location: New Hampshire

July 12, 2001 · NWS GYX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A severe thunderstorm produce dime- to nickel-sized hail in Dover. In some areas, the hail was deep enough to shovel.

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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 happened

The episode as NWS GYX wrote it up.

A severe thunderstorm produce dime- to nickel-sized hail in Dover. In some areas, the hail was deep enough to shovel.

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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 12, 1:01 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 1:01 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
201 PM EDT THU JUL 12 2001

DISC...IN THE SR...XPCT SHRA TO DISSIPATE AFT PSG OF S/W TROF & LOSS
OF DIURNAL HEATING RGT ARND 00Z.  ISOLD HI RPTS LKLY TO CONT TO COME
INTO THS OFFICE FOR THE NXT FEW HRS.  MST OF THE HI HAS BN PEA
SIZED.  LRGR STM NR UNITY BEING TARGETED W/ NOWCASTS.

H5 LOW TO DOMINATE WX SCENARIO FOR ANOTHER 1 TO 2 DAYS.  TDS
GRADUALLY LWR DURG THE NXT 48 HRS ON RELATIVELY DRY WSW FLO NR THE
SFC.  XPCT SHRA TO BE DIURALLY DRIVEN W/ BEST FOCUS FOR PCPN TO BE
IN THE MTNS.  PCPN TO BE LESS WIDESPREAD FRI...& EVN LESS SO BY
SAT.  MTNS THE ONLY COS TO HOLD ONTO CHC POPS DURG THE NGT.

ENUF DRY AIR & GRDNT TO HOLD OFF ON PTCHY BR JUST ABT ALL ZNS DURG
THE NXT FEW NGTS.

TEMPS GRDLY CLIMB W/ MOR SNSHN EA PASSING DAY INTO THE WKND.
ONSHORE COMPONENT ALG THE MIDCST WL KP IT SLGTLY COOLER THERE.

MARINE...WNDS TO STAY BLO SCA THRU THE PDj.  WNDS WL G20 KTS BRIEFLY
ON FRI.

MR...GRADUAL WARM UP CONTS NXT WEEK.

FCSTID = 13

.GYX...
ME...NONE.
NH...NONE.

JC

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:17 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Strafford

When: July 12, 2:20 PM EST
Where: Strafford County, Dover
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: UNKNOWN
Coordinates: 43.200, -70.883

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

Every storm in New Hampshire in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in New Hampshire, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5262497.