Hail, Dauphin
- When
- April 14, 5:40 PM EST
- Where
- Dauphin County, Middletown
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.200, -76.717
Dime sized hail was reported in Middletown.
Hail in Pennsylvania, April 14, 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 State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 14, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE 310 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2002 LATEST RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS LARGE AREA OF SHOWER AND TSTMS MOVING ACROSS NCENTRAL PA AHEAD OF OH VALLEY FRONTAL SYSTEM. EXPECT PCPN TO FILL IN OVER NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS OVER REMAINDER OF CWA AS STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVES EAST THROUGH OH/TN VALLEY. PCPN SHOULD BE EXIT WRN COUNTIES AROUND 00Z AND LINGER INTO LATE EVENING ACROSS THE SE. EXPECT REDEVELOPMENT OF FOG WHERE SKIES CLEAR SUFFICIENTLY AS WAS THE CASE LAST NIGHT AFTER WIDESPREAD PCPN. SECONDARY NRN STREAM SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS REGION MON NIGHT. IT APPEARS IT WILL INTERCEPT INCREASING MOISTURE ASSOCIATED BROADENING BERMUDA HIGH FLOW. THIS WILL PRODUCE AN AREA OF SHOWERS SOME THUNDER ESP A ACROSS NRN PA. WARM AND SOMEWHAT HUMID SPRING WEATHER IN STORE FOR MUCH OF WEEK AS BERMUDA HIGH GRABS HOLD OF REGION WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF FRONTAL PASSAGES DEPICTED UNTIL SAT. SAID FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE THRU PA SAT LEADING TO CLEARING AND A BIT COOLER CONDS NEXT SUNDAY. CTP...NONE. GARTNER
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:38 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
- Flood in Wisconsin, April 14 to 18, 2002
- High Wind in Nevada, April 14, 2002
- High Wind in Washington, April 14, 2002
- Flood in Wisconsin, April 14 to 19, 2002
- Flood in Vermont, April 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 14, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, April 14, 2002
- High Wind in Montana, April 14, 2002
- Flood in Vermont, April 14, 2002
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Idaho, April 14, 2002
- High Wind in California, April 14 to 16, 2002
- Hail in Wisconsin, April 14, 2002
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, 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: 5285612.