Hail, Putnam
- When
- April 30, 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Putnam County, 5 mi E of Melrose
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 29.683, -81.983
Hail in Florida, April 30, 2002
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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 30, 12:25 PM EST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 12:25 PM EST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 125 PM EDT TUE APR 30 2002 CURRENTLY... QUASI-STATIONARY SURFACE FRONT FROM JUST N OF KJAX TO CENTRAL AL. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT HAS PUSHED OFF MEXICAN COAST WITH NORTHWEST FLOW OVER SOUTHEAST STATES. 1ST IN SERIES OF EMBEDDED SHORT-WAVES HAS MOVED OFF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA COAST WITH LARGE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PROPAGATING SOUTH OVER SOUTHERN GEORGIA. PUBLIC... MODELS CONTINUE TO INCREASE AVAILABLE MOISTURE OVER NORTHERN FLORIDA WITH PWATS RISING ABOVE 1.5 INCHES MOST AREAS BY THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN HI NEAR AND SOUTH OF SLOWLY LIFTING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WITH FORECAST AFTERNOON LIS AROUND -4 OVER NORTHERN FLORIDA COUNTIES. THESE FEATURES WHEN COMBINED WITH SEVERAL DISTURBANCES IN NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AS WELL AS NUMBER OF LIFTING MECHANISMS (I.E., AFTERNOON SEA-BREEZE DEVELOPMENT/ INTERIOR THERMAL TROF) WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. AGREE WITH SELS THAT THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE OVER NORTHERN FLORIDA...BUT WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER OVER SOUTHEAST GEORGIA WITH STRONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY USHERING IN A MORE STABLE AIR-MASS. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE FROM THE SOUTHWEST BEGINNING THIS EVENING AS AFOREMENTIONED FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIFTS NORTH AND GULF COAST SEA-BREEZE PREVAILS. HOT AND DRY WEATHER THROUGH THURSDAY WITH SEVERAL LOCATIONS EXPECTING NEAR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES. UPPER HIGH ADVANCES EAST OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO AND BUILDS INTO THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES. BREEZY CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED EACH DAY. NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL ARRIVE FRIDAY WITH APPROACH OF NEXT FRONTAL BOUNDARY. EXTENDED... FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL USHER IN SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR (ACTUALLY TEMPS IN LINE WITH CLIMO) WITH SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST FLORIDA SATURDAY. MID/UPPER LEVEL HIGH PARKS OVER THE AREA BY SUNDAY. MARINE... NO HEADLINES. RECORD HIGHS FOR WEDNESDAY... AMG 95 IN 1990 SSI 93 IN 1981 JAX 96 IN 1990 SGJ 92 IN 1953 GNV 95 IN 1906 OCF 95 IN 1990 PRELIM... AMG BU 066/090 068/092 069 16300 SSI BU 068/088 070/091 070 163-- JAX BU 068/092 069/093 070 162-- SGJ BU 069/090 070/091 071 162-- GNV BU 068/092 070/093 071 162-- OCF BU 068/092 070/093 070 162--= .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. ZAPPE
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:58 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 30, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, April 30, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, April 30, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, April 30, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 30, 2002
- Flood in Puerto Rico, April 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, April 2002
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: 5290449.