Hail, Randolph
- When
- April 8, 6:55 PM EST
- Where
- Randolph County, 1 mi W of Harman
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.917, -79.550
Hail in West Virginia, April 8, 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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 8, 3:40 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 3:40 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 340 PM EST SUN APR 8 2001 DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED TEMPERATURES IN MOST LOCATIONS TO CLIMB INTO THE 80S...SLIGHTLY COOLER IN OUR MOUNTAIN COUNTIES. CAPE VALUES IN THE 1500 TO 2000 J/KG RANGE SO CONVECTION STILL POSSIBLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUT FOR NORTHERN ZONES UNTIL 9 PM. WILL GO WITH A CHANCE POP TONIGHT FOR RW/TRW MOST ZONES...MAINLY FOR THIS EVENING. FRONT STRETCHING ACROSS CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH ILLINOIS EXPECTED TO REMAIN TO OUR NORTH THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS MONDAY INTO MONDAY EVENING WITH DIURNAL INSTABILITY AND A SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH. FOR TUESDAY A SHORT WAVE MOVES THROUGH...ETA AND AVN BOTH SHOWING DIVERGENCE ALOFT ALSO. INSTABILITY REMAINS...SO LIKELY POPS ALL ZONES FOR RW/TRW. .RLX... WV...NONE. VA...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. .END / NMB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 4:57 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
OHZ066-082245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 557 PM EDT SUN APR 8 2001 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY AT 6 AM. THIS STORM WILL PUSH INTO NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 6 PM...THEN MOVE ON EAST OF THE COUNTY BY 6:45 PM. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MILES AND HOUR...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. .END/ZINN
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 178 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:55 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
- Heat in Missouri, April 8 to 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Iowa, April 8 to 9, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, April 8, 2001
- Heavy Rain in New York, April 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, April 8, 2001
- Flood in New York, April 8 to 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 8, 2001
- Flood in New York, April 8 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 8, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, April 8, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, April 8, 2001
- Tornado and Flood in Iowa, April 8 to 9, 2001
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, April 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: 5239373.