Ohio, 2001

Hail in Ohio, May 15, 2001

May 15, 2001 · NWS CLE · 2 events in 1 county or zone

2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 15, 1:02 PM EST, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 1:02 PM EST, 6 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
202 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2001

AT UPR LVL NGM/ETA PRETTY CLOSE THRU NXT 48 HRS. TROF OFF E CST
DUMB-BELLING AND MOVING SLOWLY OFF TO E AS LONGWAVE RDG SRN PLNS
THRU GRT LKS TO QUE SPLIT AND PUSHED S BY NXT SHRT WV MOVG THRU S
CNTRL CAN. MDL QPFS SHOW A TENDENCY TWD PULLING PCPN BACK A BIT TO
THE W EARLY ON BUT TIMING DIFFERS A LITTLE AMG MDLS. MN RH PROGS
PRETTY MUCH SHOW THE SAME THING. THIS WUD HV THE EFFECT OF HAVING
HIER POPS IN THE W AND THIS IS REFLECTED IN FWC NUMBERS FOR TNGT.
PVA LOOKS GOOD OVR AT LEAST WRN PARTS OF CWA IN CONJUNCTION WITH
AVBL MSTR TO GEN MORE SHWRS/TSTMS. WL AGN INDCT RAIN PSBLY HVY AT
TIMES WRN SXNS.

WL LKLY KEEP SAME ZN CONFIG...OR SOMETHING VERY CLOSE. WL GO WITH
CAT POPS W...LKLY CNTRL AND LOW CHC E TNGT. AS PVA AND MSTR BGN TO
PICK OUT TO THE E LATE TNGT AND TMW WL LWR POPS TO LKLY W...AND GO
WITH CAT CNTRL AND E ON WED PSBLY MNTNG HVY RAINS THESE AREAS. WRN
SXNS LKLY TO BE DRY WED NGT AS SYS MOVES ON OUT. CHC POPS LINGER OVR
CNTRL SXNS AND WL HANG ON TO LKLY E. DRY ENTIRE CWA ON THU. NXT STG
PACKET OF PVA IN WRN LKSTHU EVE CUD BRING SHWRS INTO AREA BY FRI
MRNG BUT MSTR APPEARS TO BE A BIT LIMITED ATTM.

TMPS WILL DEPEND HVLY ON PCPN/CLDS OVR AREA THRU PD. GUID VALUES
PRETTY CLOSE ON THE WHOLE SO WONT BE VARYING BY TOO MUCH. GRTST
RANGE WILL BE TNGT WITH LOWS RANGING FROM MID 50S W TO 45-50 E.

.CLE...
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.

VRCEK

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:48 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Seneca

When
May 15, 7:50 PM EST
Where
Seneca County, Bascom
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
41.133, -83.283

Quarter size hail was reported.

Hail, Seneca

When
May 15, 8:15 PM EST
Where
Seneca County, Bloomville
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Coordinates
41.050, -82.983

Dime size hail was reported.

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

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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: 5246598, 5246599.