Hail, Clay
- When
- March 13, 2:25 AM CST
- Where
- Clay County, 8 mi N of Celina
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.667, -85.500
Dime size hail was reported at Watson's Market, just south of the Kentucky border.
Hail in Tennessee, March 13, 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 Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 12, 8:15 PM CST, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 8:15 PM CST, 6 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 815 PM CST MON MAR 12 2001 CURRENTLY...COLD FRONT NEAR CGI-LIT-SHV LINE AND PUSING EWARD. LINE OF TSTMS HAS FORMED ON LEADING EDGE...WITH MORE EXPLOSIVE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS NE AR IN AREA OF BETTER INSTABILITY AND LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE. NEWEST VARIOUS DATA WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS LINE MAY WEAKEN AS IT MOVES INTO THE CWA BUT SHOULD HAVE NO TROUBLE HOLDING TOGETHER. FAVORABLE AREA OF ENHANCED VERTICAL MOTION FROM JET COUPLET EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA 06Z-12Z... ALTHOUGH AIRMASS PROGGD TO BE LITTLE MORE STABLE. FEW WARNINGS COMING OUT OF MEM-PAH BUT WILL LEAVE MENTION OF SEVERE OUT OF ZONES EAT THIS TIME. GENERALLY...ONGOING FORECAST IN LINE BUT WILL MAKE A FEW CHANGES TO POPS...MAINLY NERN ZONES...AND WORDING. 07 .BNA...NONE.
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:26 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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Maryland, March 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, March 13, 2001
- Winter Weather in New York, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in West Virginia, March 13, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, March 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: 5233593.