Hail, Mecklenburg
- When
- May 19, 4:50 PM EST
- Where
- Mecklenburg County, Clarksville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.617, -78.617
Hail in Virginia, May 19, 2001
3 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
- 3
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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 19, 2:55 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:55 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 355 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2001 HEATING UP ON SRN SIDE OF BNDRY THIS AFTN. LIS NOW -6 OVR SW ZNS AND NEW TSRA DEVELOPMENT BEGINNING ALNG VA/WV BORDER. WL GO AHEAD AND MENTION PSBL SVR SW AND SRN ZNS GIVEN -10C ALOFT. WND PROFILES NOT FAVORABLE FOR ROTATION AND ONCE HEATING ENDS NOT SEEING TOO STRONG DYNAMIC PUNCH LEFT TO SUSTAIN THINGS LONG. LOOKS LIKE EVENING HAIL/WND PBLM. HOW FAR BNDRY SHIFTS IS QUESTION TOMORROW INTO MON. BUYING ETA SOLUTION AND SHIFTING BNDRY S SUN THUS CONFINING CONVECTIVE THREAT FURTHER S. HI RH TO RMN OVR ENTIRE FA THRU MON AS CDFNT STRENGTHENS IN CNTRL U.S. AS SFC HI PUMPS ENE FLOW OVR COAST. FNT MOVS THRU LATE TUE/WED FOLLOWED BY UNSEASONIBLY COOL AIR LATER IN WEEK. AS A WHOLE TAKING CURRENT FCST AND ADJUSTING POPS/TEMPS A BIT IN SHORT TERM. MADE BIG TEMP CHG IN EXTENDED WRT TO COOL DOWN LATER NEXT WEEK. FCSTID = 71 SBY 56 66 56 70 / 60 50 30 40 OXB 56 62 56 63 / 60 50 30 30 ECG 62 82 64 75 / 50 70 50 40 ORF 60 72 63 74 / 50 50 40 40 PHF 59 66 57 70 / 60 50 30 40 AKQ 62 75 61 73 / 60 60 50 40 RIC 60 73 59 72 / 60 50 30 50 FVX 62 75 61 73 / 60 60 50 40 .AKQ... MD...NONE. NC...NONE. VA...NONE. SCHUMANN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
NCZ012>017-031-032-VAZ060-061-065>068-079>081-087>089-092-093-096- 097-192000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 405 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2001 THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS ACROSS SOUTHERN VIRGINIA. THIS BOUNDARY IS ACTING AS A FOCUS FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AREAS SOUTH OF THIS FRONT...MAINLY I64 SOUTHWARD INTO NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE FAVORABLE LOCATIONS FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES AND TEMPERATURES COOL DOWN THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD SUBSIDE QUICKLY. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT PRESENTLY BUT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAY BE ISSUED WITHIN THE NEXT 2-3 HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DE@TAILS OR UPDATES. SCHUMANN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Mecklenburg
- When
- May 19, 5:25 PM EST
- Where
- Mecklenburg County, 2 mi N of Clarksville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.650, -78.617
Hail, Mecklenburg
- When
- May 19, 5:35 PM EST
- Where
- Mecklenburg County, Clarksville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.617, -78.617
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
- Lightning Strikes in Georgia, May 19, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, May 19 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Oklahoma, May 19, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Texas, May 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 19 to 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 19, 2001
- High Wind in Montana, May 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Texas, May 19, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, May 19 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 19, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, May 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 19 to 20, 2001
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, 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: 5247187, 5247188, 5247189.