Hail, Lewis
- When
- May 1, 4:10 PM EST
- Where
- Lewis County, Weston
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.033, -80.450
Hail in West Virginia, May 1, 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 May 1, 1:10 PM EST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 1:10 PM EST, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 210 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2001 WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRIGGERING SCATTERED TSTMS ACROSS SE OH...NE KY AND SRN HALF OF WV. MOST SHUD DIE AFTER 6 PM...BUT A FEW MAY LINGER UNTIL AFTER SUNSET. WILL GO WITH AN EARLY THIS EVENING CHANCE OF SHWRS/TSTMS WRN WV..SE OH...NE KY AND VA ZONES. OTHERWISE NO MENTION OF PCPN FOR OVERNIGHT. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW WEAK FLOW ACROSS THE CWA. RIDGE STRENGTHENS WED AND THU ACROSS AREA. MAY BE A FEW TSTMS DEVELOP IN WV MTNS INTO SW VA WED AFTN...OTHERWISE NO PCPN EXPECTED UNTIL FRI NIGHT AND/OR SAT AS COLD FRONT TRIES TO DROP INTO CWA. .RLX... WV...NONE. VA...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. .END / ZINN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 10:20 AM EST, 5 hours 50 minutes before
VAZ003-011945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV...CORRECTION TO ADD COUNTY NAME. 1120 AM EDT TUE MAY 1 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SATURATED AREA IN DICKENSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. SOME OF THE SMALL STREAMS ARE BANKFULL...SOME ROADS MAY HAVE WATER FLOWING ACROSS THEM IN THE LOWLYING AREAS. AS THE AREA CONTINUE TO RECEIVE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THIS SITUATION AS A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE NEEDED IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER OVERFLOWING THE ROADS. .END/ELW
Special weather statement, May 1, 2:37 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
OHZ066-067-075-076-083-084-012130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 337 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2001 AT 332 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY EAST THROUGH THE AREA. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER AND SMALL STREAM RISES. SOME SMALL STREAMS WILL BE OUT OF THEIR BANKS...CAUSING MINOR NUISANCE FLOODING. PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.
Special weather statement, May 1, 3:25 PM EST, 45 minutes before
KYZ101>103-105-WVZ005-012215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 425 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2001 AT 419 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY EAST THROUGH THE AREA. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER AND SMALL STREAM RISES. SOME SMALL STREAMS COULD RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS...CAUSING MINOR NUISANCE FLOODING. PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Drought in Florida, May 1 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, May 1 to 18, 2001
- Flooding in Minnesota, May 1 to 16, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 9, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 18, 2001
- High Wind in California, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Drought in North Carolina, May 1 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in West 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: 5244954.