Hail, Grafton
- When
- May 28, 12:30 PM EST
- Where
- Grafton County, Hanover
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.700, -72.283
Hail in New Hampshire, May 28, 2001
A severe thunderstorm dropped 3/4 inch hail in Hanover.
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 GYX wrote it up.
A severe thunderstorm dropped 3/4 inch hail in Hanover.
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 May 28, 8:55 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 8:55 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 955 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2001 WILL ISSUE PUBLIC UPDATE TO REMOVE MORNING FOG AND BOOST POPS TO LIKELY OVR S NH. REST OF FCST GENERALLY UNCHANGED. FCSTID = 3 .GYX... ME...NONE. NH...NONE.
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:30 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Dense Fog in Florida, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in New York, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, May 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 28, 2001
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, 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: 5244987.