Hail, Clinton
- When
- July 9, 10:05 PM EST
- Where
- Clinton County, Peru
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.746, -73.678 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in New York, July 9, 2001
A northwest flow in the upper levels of the atmosphere with upper level disturbances triggered evening and nighttime thunderstorms. Pea size hail was reported in Peru, New York around 1105 PM EDT (1005 PM EST).
Where it happened
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- 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 BTV wrote it up.
A northwest flow in the upper levels of the atmosphere with upper level disturbances triggered evening and nighttime thunderstorms. Pea size hail was reported in Peru, New York around 1105 PM EDT (1005 PM EST).
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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 8:35 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 8:35 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 935 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2001 UPR LVL LO WL CONT ROTATING AROUND THE JAMES BAY AREA THRU THE PD. THUNDERSTORMS DVLPD DURG THE AFTN HRS IN THE MOIST UNSTBL AIRMASS AND CONTD INTO THIS EVENING. SEVERAL OUTFLO BOUNDARIES NOTED ON RADAR IMAGERY...AND THESE HV CONTD THE TSTMS INTO THE NIGHTIME HRS. HOWEVER EXPECT TSTMS TO BE ENDING AROUND MIDINITE...AS WK SHORT WV EXITS AREA. OTRW FOR THE OVRNGT HRS IT WILL BE PTLY CLDY WITH AREAS OF FG DVLPG. SEE NO REASON TO CHG TEMPERATURE FCST. MODELS ROTATE WK H/5 SHORT WAVE INTO OUR AREA DURG LATE MRNG AND AFTN HRS ON TUESDAY. WL CONTINUE MENTION OF TSTMS TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTN. .BTV...NONE. SFH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:43 PM EST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VERMONT
643 PM EDT MON JUL 09 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM CASTLETON VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 RUTLAND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
0415 PM WEST RUTLAND VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 RUTLAND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
IN WEST RUTLAND.
0435 PM NORTH CLARENDON VT 58 MPH TSTM GUST
07/09/01 RUTLAND WIND GUST TO 58 MPG (50
KTS) REPORTED AT RUTLAND
AIRPORT IN NORTH CLARENDO.
0510 PM PLYMOUTH VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 WINDSOR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
0515 PM LUDLOW VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 WINDSOR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
Y TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:53 PM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
ALBLSRBTV 000
TTAA00 KBTV DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VERMONT
653 PM EDT MON JUL 09 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM CASTLETON VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 RUTLAND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
0415 PM WEST RUTLAND VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 RUTLAND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
IN WEST RUTLAND.
0435 PM NORTH CLARENDON VT 58 MPH TSTM GUST
07/09/01 RUTLAND WIND GUST TO 58 MPH
(50 KTS) REPORTED AT
AT AUTOMATED WIND
SENSOR AT RUTLAND AIRPORT
IN NORTH CLARENDON.
0510 PM PLYMOUTH VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 WINDSOR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
0515 PM LUDLOW # VT WIND DAMAGE
07/09/01 WINDSOR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:02 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
- Wildfire in Washington, July 9 to 23, 2001
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Virginia, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 9, 2001
- Flash Flood in Maine, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 9, 2001
More
Every storm in New York in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, 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: 5261945.