Hail, Carbon
- When
- July 11, 4:31 AM EST
- Where
- Carbon County, Albrightsville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.017, -75.617
Hail in Pennsylvania, July 11, 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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 11, 1:40 AM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 1:40 AM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 240 AM EDT WED JUL 11 2001 THE SHORT WAVE TROUGH UP OVER THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES REGION EARLY THIS MORNING WILL PROGRESS TO THE EAST. IT SHOULD PASS OFF OF THE COASTS OF NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. UNTIL THAT TIME...WE/LL CONTINUE TO HAVE A CHANCE OF PRECIP IN OUR FORECAST AREA. THE SHORT WAVE TROUGH HAS SOME PUNCH TO IT...SO WE/LL MENTION BOTH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS FOR THIS MORNING... ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF WHAT HAS BEEN OCCURRING UPSTREAM. DRY AIR IS FORECAST TO BEGIN BUILDING DOWN FROM THE NORTHWEST AND INTO OUR REGION DURING THIS AFTERNOON. WITH EXCEPTION OF THIS MORNING...NO PRECIP IS ANTICIPATED FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THE ZONE FORECASTS WILL BE ISSUED AT 400. .PHI...NONE. IOVINO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:30 AM EST, 1 minute before
NJZ001-007>010-012>015-PAZ054-055-060>062-068-069-111400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 530 AM EDT WED JUL 11 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1000 AM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM AND IT INCLUDES MUCH OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...AND NORTHWESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...OUT AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT...WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WIND GUSTS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF YOU OBSERVE THREATENING WEATHER...SEEK SHELTER AT ONCE. IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF CARBON... MONROE...NORTHAMPTON...LEHIGH...BERKS...MONTGOMERY AND BUCKS. IN NORTHWESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW JERSEY THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF SUSSEX...WARREN...MORRIS...HUNTERDON...SOMERSET... MIDDLESEX...MERCER AND MONMOUTH. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. IOVINO/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
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
- Heat in Texas, July 11, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Colorado, July 11, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 11, 2001
- Wildfire in California, July 11 to 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 11, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 11, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 11, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 11, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Mississippi, July 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 11 to 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 11, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, July 11, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, 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: 5260315.