Hail, Orleans
- When
- July 17, 9:15 PM EST
- Where
- Orleans County, Newport Center
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.950, -72.300
Hail in Vermont, July 17, 2002
A warm front moved across the area during the afternoon and evening. A few thunderstorms were triggered with large hail reported in Newport Center.
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 happened
The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
A warm front moved across the area during the afternoon and evening. A few thunderstorms were triggered with large hail reported in Newport Center.
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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 17, 7:10 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 7:10 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 810 PM EDT WED JUL 17 2002 WFNT HUNG UP ACRS NE VT WITH COOLER STABLE AIR HANGING TOUGH IN THIS RGN. REST OF FA IN WM SECTOR WITH DWPTS U60S/L70S AND CAPES 500- 1000 J/KG...BUT AMS STGLY CAPPED WITH LAPS CIN 120-200 J/KG AND 200- 300 E OF CHMPLN VLY. SFC CDFNT STILL N OF YQB-YYB LN AND 18Z ETA INDCTG FROPA 06-12Z ACRS FA...AVN ABT 3 HRS SLOWER. TSTMS FIRING ALG AND AHD OF BNDRY ACRS QUEB. AS FNT CONTS TO PUSH SWD CAP WL ERODE BUT INSTABY FCST TO WKN RPDLY AFT 03Z. BEST CHC SVR WL BE THRU ABT 03Z IF CNVCTN N OF BDR CAN MOV INTO FA BY THEN. OTRW...FROPA TIMG DURG DECRG INSTABY SO SVR THREAT AFT MIDNGT DMNSHG. WL LWR POPS TO LKLY N ZNS AND CHC S VT AS NOT ANTICIPATING WDSPRD PCPN BUT WL KEEP ENHANCED WORDG PER 0- 6 KM SHEAR ARND 25 M/S WHICH IS SUFFICIENT FOR ORGANIZED CNVCTN. HVY RAFL WL RMN A THREAT GIVEN HI PW/S ARND 1.75. NO CHGS BYND FIRST PD. .BTV...NONE. KJC
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:13 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
- Heat in Missouri, July 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 17, 2002
- Wildfire in California, July 17, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Montana, July 17, 2002
- Hail in Nevada, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Hail in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 17, 2002
- Wildfire in Utah, July 17 to 31, 2002
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, 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: 5311368.