Hail, Franklin
- When
- April 19, 1:15 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, Doylesburg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.217, -77.700
Hail was reported in Doylesburg.
Hail in Pennsylvania, April 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 State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 10:10 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 10:10 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE 1110 AM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 UPDATE FOR AFTERNOON WITH MINIMAL CHANGES BASED ON RADAR/SAT TRENDS. TEMP FORECASTS ON TRACK. SPS FOR SLIGHT RISK SEVERE UPDATED AS WELL. CTP...SPS FOR SLGT RISK FOR SEVERE SND
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 9:56 AM EST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-192200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1056 AM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SOME OF WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/CTP
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:14 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
- Damaging Winds in District of Columbia, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, April 19 to 21, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 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: 5285599.