Hail, Orange
- When
- April 26, 6:56 PM EST
- Where
- Orange County, 3 mi SW of Orlando
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 28.520, -81.400
Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, April 26, 2002
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 26, 12:35 PM EST, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 12:35 PM EST, 6 hours 21 minutes before
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 135 PM EDT FRI APR 26 2002 CURRENTLY...SCATTERED COVERAGE OF AFTERNOON CU CONFINED TO CENTRAL FL WHERE HIGHER SURFACE BASED MOISTURE IS IN PLACE. A FEW PINPOINT SHOWERS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ON RADAR IN AREAS OF LOCAL BREEZE CONVERGENCE. OVERALL NOT LOOKING AT TOO MUCH IN THE WAY OF COVERAGE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. TONIGHT/SAT/SUN...QUIET CONDITIONS WITH DISSIPATING FRONT NORTH OF THE AREA. A FEW SHOWERS WILL PROBABLY LINGER PAST NIGHTFALL AS WAS THE CASE ON THU NIGHT. SURFACE RIDGE WL BECOME RE-ESTABLISHED EAST OF THE STATE ON SAT WITH SE WINDS AND LITTLE IN THE WAY OF AVAILABLE MOISTURE. MAIN STORY WILL BE PERSISTENT H5 RIDGE EXTENDING FROM THE GULF OF MEX TO THE FL PENINSULA WHILE BUILDING EASTWARD THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SUBSIDENCE FROM THIS FEATURE WILL SQUASH CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. WILL INCLUDE ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS MAINLY OVER INTERIOR ON SAT AND SUN. TEMPS WILL ALSO CREEP UP INTO THE 90S BY SUNDAY OVER INTERIOR SECTIONS WITH AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE COOLING THE COAST. USING PERSISTENCE GUID POPS IN ALL OUTPUT RANGING FROM AVN ETA/NGM MOS IS TOO HIGH. EXTENDED...LOOKING FOR A PATTERN CHANGE BUT NONE IS APPARENT THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEK. A MEAN SURFACE RIDGE OVER CENTRAL FL REMAINS IN PLACE WITH PERSISTENT UPPER HIGH OVER THE GULF OF MEX KEEPING STORM TRACK WELL NORTH OVER THE CONUS. ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS SHOWN BY BY GLOBAL SUITE NEARING N FL ON FRIDAY AND MAY EXTEND ENUF SOUTH BY WEEKEND TO BREAK PATTERN. UNTIL THEN RAIN CHANCES REMAIN SLIGHT TO NONE. MARINE...SE GRADIENT FLOW EXPECTED TO INCREASE SAT AS SURFACE HIGH REFORMS OVER ATLANTIC BASIN. WINDS/SEAS NEARING EXPECTED TO NEAR CAUTION LEVELS SAT WL HV TO BE MONITORED FOR POSSIBLE HIGHLIGHTS. PRELIM... DAB BB 067/085 067/088 067 2211 MCO BB 067/088 068/090 068 2221 MLB BB 068/087 070/088 069 2211 44 .MLB...NONE. PUBLIC/MARINE...PENDERGRAST AVIATION/FIRE WX...VOLKMER
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:57 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Orange
- When
- April 26, 7:25 PM EST
- Where
- Orange County, Orlando
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 28.550, -81.367
Severe thunderstorms produced dime size hail in the Disney area and blew down a large tree onto a house in Orlando injuring one person.
Hail, Orange
- When
- April 26, 7:43 PM EST
- Where
- Orange County, Maitland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 28.633, -81.367
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5289387, 5289388, 5289389.