Hail, Levy
- When
- July 18, 3:20 PM EST
- Where
- Levy County, Morriston
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 29.283, -82.450
Golfball size hail was reported by Emergency Management.
Hail in Florida, July 18, 2003
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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 18, 12:41 PM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 12:41 PM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 141 PM EDT FRI JUL 18 2003 CURRENTLY...VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTS EAST AND WEST COAST SEA BREEZE BOUNDARIES ALREADY UNDERWAY...WITH 88D RETURNS SHOWING CONVECTION FIRING ALONG THEM EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY LATEST SOUNDING DATA SHOWS ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE...SO EXPECT TO SEE ADDITIONAL STORMS FIRE OFF DUE TO BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. WITH COOL (50H TEMP -9C) DRY AIR IN THE MID LEVELS... SOME STORMS COULD AGAIN BECOME QUITE STRONG WITH HAIL AND OR DAMAGING WINDS...AND WILL ADD STRONG TSTM WORDING FOR THE EVENING HOURS IN THE 5 PM ZONE PACKAGE. SHORT TERM(SAT-SUN)...DEEP LAYERED RIDGING ACROSS THE CENTRAL FA WILL SHIFT SOUTH DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE UPCOMING WEEKEND AS AN UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE EASTERN U.S.. MODELS ARE FAIRLY SIMILAR WITH THIS SCENARIO...SO WILL USE A BLEND THIS FCST CYCLE. AS THE SFC RIDGE SHIFTS SOUTH TO THE VICINITY OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE...DEEP LAYERED SOUTHWESTERLY WIND FLOW WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. MOISTURE PROFILES ARE PROGD TO REMAIN ABOUT THE SAME OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH PWS REMAINING IN THE 1.6 TO 1.8 RANGE. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT POPS IN THE SCATTERED RANGE...HOWEVER WITH A SWLY STEERING FLOW EXPECT TO SEE THE GREATEST AREAL COVERAGE OF STORMS OVER INTERIOR ZONES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS EACH DAY...AND WILL SHOW POPS 50% INTERIORS ZONES AND SLIGHTLY LESS COASTAL. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES AGAIN CLOSE AND A BLEND SHOULD SUFFICE IN MOST LOCATIONS. WITH ONSHORE FLOW DEVELOPING MIN TEMPS WILL BECOME QUITE BALMY ALONG COASTAL LOCATIONS WITH UPPER 70 DEGREE READINGS LIKELY. EXTENDED(MON-FRI)...LONG WAVE TROF ACROSS THE EASTERN THIRD OF U.S. BECOMES LARGER BY TUESDAY AND REMAINS THROUGH FRIDAY. MRF MODEL TRIES TO TRANSITION LONG WAVE TROF TO ZONAL FLOW ON FRIDAY. SOLUTION OF CLOSED COLD CORE LOW OVER LOUISIANA BY SATURDAY NOT LIKELY THIS TIME OF YEAR. WILL KEEP FORECAST AREA UNDER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH LONG WAVE TROF. MARINE...DEVELOPING UPPER TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN U.S. WILL SUPPRESS THE DEEP LAYERED RIDGE TO THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA AND STRAITS DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEKEND AND CONTINUING INTO NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL RESULT IN A SOUTH TO SOUTHWESTERLY WIND FLOW OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THROUGH THE PERIOD. MODELS DEPICT A SUBTLE INCREASE IN WINDS BUT NO HIGHLIGHTS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FIRE WEATHER...NO CONCERNS. PRELIMINARY #S BKV 070/091 071/090 2424 TPA 076/091 076/090 2423 SRQ 075/089 075/089 2423 GIF 075/094 075/093 3535 FMY 075/092 075/092 2423 .TBW...NONE. MCMICHAEL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 4:30 AM EST, 10 hours 50 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-181400- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 530 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES INLAND BY LATE MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON ALONG THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE. DURING THE AFTERNOON...THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY WILL MOVE SLOWLY INLAND...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY INCREASING IN COVERAGE OVER INTERIOR COUNTIES. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG NEAR INTERSECTING SEA BREEZE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM ANY STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY: SCATTERED MAINLY MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES ...AND MAINLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER INTERIOR COUNTIES. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 18, 9:27 AM EST, 5 hours 53 minutes before
MARINE LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1027 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 2003
TIME(EDT) .....MARINE SUBZONE.... GMZ ...EVENT/REMARKS...
......MARINE ZONE......
1000 AM ENGLWD-TARPON 20-60 NM 873 WATERSPOUT
07/17/03 ENGLWD-TARP SPGS 20-60NM WATERSPOUT WAS FILMED BY
LOCAL TV STATION.
1130 PM TAMPA BAY 830 LIGHTNING
07/17/03 TAMPA BAY WATERS SPOUT WAS VIEWED WITH THE
AID OF LIGHTNING FLASHES.
NOAHLocal storm report, Jul 18, 9:27 AM EST, 5 hours 53 minutes before
MARINE LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1027 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 2003
TIME(EDT) .....MARINE SUBZONE.... GMZ ...EVENT/REMARKS...
......MARINE ZONE......
1000 AM ENGLWD-TARPON 20-60 NM 873 WATERSPOUT
07/17/03 ENGLWD-TARP SPGS 20-60NM WATERSPOUT WAS FILMED BY
LOCAL TV STATION.
1130 PM TAMPA BAY 830 WATERSPOUT
07/17/03 TAMPA BAY WATERS SPOUT WAS VIEWED WITH THE
AID OF LIGHTNING FLASHES.
NOAHThe radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:20 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 18, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 18, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 18, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, July 18, 2003
- Tropical Storm in Guam, July 18 to 19, 2003
- Hail in Iowa, July 18, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 18, 2003
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 18, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 18 to 19, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 18 to 19, 2003
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 18, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 18, 2003
More
Every storm in Florida in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 2003
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: 5366688.