Hail, Monongalia
- When
- June 20, 5:15 PM EST
- Where
- Monongalia County, Core
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.683, -80.100
Hail in West Virginia, June 20, 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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 1:35 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:35 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 235 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001 A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHING TRIGGERING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXPECTED TO STALL OVER THE CWA BRINGING A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD IN SATURDAY BRINGING DRY CONDITIONS TO THE AREA OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. MRF SHOWS NEXT CHANCE FOR PRECIP WILL THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. JMP .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE.
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:13 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, June 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 20, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, June 20 to 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maryland, June 20, 2001
- High Wind in New York, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 20, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in New York, June 20, 2001
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 20 to 21, 2001
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, June 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: 5251599.