Hail, Orange
- When
- June 19, 3:45 PM EST
- Where
- Orange County, Orlando
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 28.550, -81.367
Dime size hail was reported near Sea World.
Hail in Florida, June 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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 2:15 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:15 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 315 PM EDT WED JUN 19 2002 CURRENT WX FEATURES... SFC...WEAK INVERTED TROF EXTENDS ALONG THE FL/SC COAST IS DEFORMING THE BERMUDA RIDGE...NO CLEARLY DEFINED RIDGE AXIS APPARENT ON LATEST RUC40 ANALYSIS. CONTINENTAL HI OVER NEW ENGLAND IS MOVING OFFSHORE AND IS BEGINNING TO MERGE W/THE BERMUDA RIDGE. OPEN T-WV OVER THE BAHAMAS MARCHING STEADILY EWD. PW VALUES OFF THE LCL 12Z RAOBS RANGE FROM 1.7 AT KMFL TO 2.1 AT MYNN. H85-H70...THETA-E RIDGES AND OMEGA LIFT MAXES NOTED OVER N FL AND THE BAHAMAS ARE IN TANDEM WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE SFC FEATURES. H50-H25...S/WV TROF OVER THE GOMEX HAS PINCHED OFF INTO A WEAK CLOSED LOW AT H50...WEAK VORTICITY AXIS EXTENDS FROM THE CENTRAL GOMEX ACROSS THE CENTRAL FL PENINSULA. H25 COUPLED JET PATTERN OVER THE ERN GOMEX AND ALONG THE CAROLINA COAST ARE PRODUCING GOOD UPR LVL DIV...LCL H25 DIV NOTED W/THE APPROACHING T-WV AS WELL. FCST DISC... COLLISION OF THE EWD MOVING T-WV WITH THE STATIONARY TROF OVER N FL APPEARS IMMINENT. WITH HIGH MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE AMS IN PLACE....THU LOOKS TO BE A WASHOUT. T-WV IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO FL THAT IT WILL BEGIN AFFECTING THE CWA OVERNIGHT...WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS ALONG THE COAST AND HI SCT OVER INTERIOR...AND CATEGORICAL POPS AREAWIDE ON THU. QUESTIONS ENTER INTO PLAY ON THU NIGHT/FRI IN THE WAKE OF THE T-WV. THE 60/80 POPS ON AVN MOS ARE SUSPECT AS SINKING MOTION AND DRIER AIR BEHIND THE WV WILL WORK TO SUPRESS CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. ETA/NGM GUIDANCE LOOK MORE REASONABLE WITH 30/50 POPS. ETA IS OVERDOING THE SUPRESSION THU NIGHT ALONG THE COAST S OF KXMR W/POPS AOB 20 PCT BY PLACING THE SE CWA UNDER THE RF QUAD OF A +50KT H25 JET WHILE ADVECTING DRIER AIR ON SHORE. AMS BEHIND THE T-WV IS NOT THAT DRY. WHILE PW VALUES OFF THE TJSJ SOUNDING DID DROP FROM 2.1 TO 1.5 FROM 12Z TUE TO 12Z WED...1.5 PW IS STILL PLENTY TO KEEP SCT POPS IN THE FCST. INVERTED TROF WILL REMAIN TRAPPED ALONG THE SE COAST THROUGH SAT AS THE CONTINENTAL HI OVER NEW ENGLAND MERGES WITH THE BERMUDA HI... RESULTING IN A RIDGE AXIS THAT EXTENDS FROM THE GEORGES BANK DOWN THE SPINE OF THE APPALACHIAN MTNS. TROF WILL EVENTUALLY BREAK DOWN ON SUN AS THE RIDGE AXIS IS ERODED BY A STORM SYSTEM OVER THE WRN PLAINS. SERLY SFC-H70 FLOW WILL DEVELOP AND TAP TROPICAL MOISTURE...KEEPING SCT POPS IN THE FCST FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. MARINE...THE APPRROACHING T-WV WILL KEEP THE PGRAD DISRUPTED OVERNIGHT...RESULTING IN A GRADIENT FLOW AOB ONE BARB. SE WINDS WILL PICK UP BEHIND THE T-WV ON THU...BUT GIVEN THE OPEN NATURE OF THE WAVE...WINDS/SEAS SHOULD REMAIN BLO THE NEED FOR ANY STATEMENTS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... DAB TT 073/085 072/086 071 575 MCO TT 073/087 072/087 071 585 MLB TT 075/085 073/086 071 685 81 .MLB...NONE. PUBLIC/MARINE...BRAGAW AVIATION/FIRE WX...GLITTO
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
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 19 to 30, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, June 19, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 19 to 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 19, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, June 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 19, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, June 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, June 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: 5302887.