Hail, Clay
- When
- July 19, 4:50 PM EST
- Where
- Clay County, Middleburg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.067, -81.867
Hail in Florida, July 19, 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 Jul 19, 12:47 PM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 12:47 PM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 147 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002 CURRENTLY... SCATTERED CONVECTION WAS DEVELOPING UNDER DEFORMATION AXIS OVER MARION COUNTY...OTHERWISE MOSTLY SUNNY AND HOT CONDITIONS PREVAILED WITH WIDESPREAD HEAT INDICES OF 101 TO 106. ACTIVE WEST-COAST SEA BREEZE WAS FORMING. PUBLIC... BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN THIS EVENING WILL OCCUR ALONG AND NORTH OF I- 10 CORRIDOR DUE TO PLACEMENT OF SURFACE MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE COUPLED WITH AFOREMENTIONED DEFORMATION AXIS SHIFTING NORTH TO THE STATE LINE. UPPER HIGH TO OUR WEST IS BEGINNING TO FLATTEN WITH POTENT SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY SLIDING SOUTHEAST OVER THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THIS SHORTWAVE WILL FURTHER BREAK DOWN THE UPPER RIDGE...WITH FAVORABLE DYNAMICS/INSTABILITY AXIS HOLDING OVER SOUTHERN GEORGIA ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. AS ADVERTISED WILL MENTION HIGHEST POPS...ALBEIT IN 40 TO 50 PERCENTAGE RANGE...OVER SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. WITH PWS AROUND 2 INCHES AREA-WIDE...WILL NEED TO CONTINUE SCATTERED POPS FOR NORTHERN FLORIDA. TEMPS WILL COOL 3 TO 5 DEGREES THIS WEEKEND OVER SOUTHEAST GEORGIA DUE TO CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS. TEMPS WILL COOL ONLY A FEW DEGREES OVER NORTHEAST FLORIDA AS WESTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW CONTINUES. HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN FLORIDA AND WILL HEADLINE ACCORDINGLY. MARINE... WINDS WILL KICK UP TO 15 KTS IN NOCTURNAL SURGE EACH NIGHT WITH SEAS BUILDING TO 4 FT WELL OFFSHORE. OTHERWISE...WINDS GENERALLY LESS THAN 15 KNOTS WITH SEAS 3 FEET OR LESS. WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO DEVELOP ONSHORE FLOW ALONG THE COAST EACH AFTERNOON. AMG EE 074/095 073/093 073 16253 SSI EE 078/093 077/090 077 16343 JAX BB 075/094 075/093 074 16332 SGJ BB 077/091 076/091 075 16232 GNV BB 074/093 074/093 074 16232 OCF BB 075/092 074/092 074 16232 .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. ZAPPE/HESS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:16 PM EST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
516 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0507 PM EAST PALATKA FL .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/02 PUTNAM REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
APBThe radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:51 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
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 19, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 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: 5306710.