Hail, Leon
- When
- June 4, 7:37 PM EST
- Where
- Leon County, 4 mi SW of Chaires
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 30.400, -84.167
Dime size hail fell on State Highway 20. Reported by the Leon County EMA.
Hail in Florida, June 4, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 7:35 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 7:35 PM EST, 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 835 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 CLOUDS MAY HAVE DELAYED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEA BREEZE...AND HAMPERED INCREASING TEMPS...BUT BOTH SURVIVED. THE SEABREEZE CAME WELL INLAND AND GENERATED CONSIDERABLE CONVECTION...SOME SEVERE... OVER N FLORIDA. MAX TEMPS RANGED FROM 91 AT THE COAST TO 98 INLAND. NO NEW RECORDS BUT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE HEAT INDICES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL QUITE ACTIVE IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... BUT MOSTLY QUIET IN NORTH FLORIDA. TEMPS ARE ON TRACK...WILL DO ZONE UPDATE AS LATE AS ALLOWED TO SEE IF POPS CAN BE DROPPED. OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...WINDS AND SEAS CONTINUE EXTREMELY LIGHT. .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. AFD
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:37 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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 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: 5300877.