Hail, Fayette
- When
- May 14, 10:54 PM EST to 10:58 PM EST
- Where
- Fayette County, Alpine
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.550, -85.183
Hail in Indiana, May 14, 2003
3 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
- 3
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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 14, 8:26 PM EST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 8:26 PM EST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 926 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2003 CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS INDCG STRONG BOW ECHO NW OF INDIANAPOLIS WITH SCATTERED TSTMS FURTHER EAST IN MORE STABLE AIR. BOW ECHO MOVNG SE RIDING ALONG WRM FRNT THAT EXTENDS FROM SFC LO IN CNTRL ILLINOIS SOUTHEAST THRU CNTRL INDIANA AND INTO SW OHIO. FRNTL BNDRY RIGHT OVER CVG METRO THIS EVNG AS WINDS HAVE SWUNG BACK AND FORTH FROM SE TO DUE SOUTH OVER LAST TWO HRS AT BOTH CVG AND LUK. CURRENT FCST LOOKS REALLY GOOD AS SHRA/TSTMS WILL CONTINUE ACRS FCST AREA FOR MOST OF THE NIGHT. 00Z KILN SOUNDING INDCG WEAK INSTABILITY (CAPES100 J/KG) AND 00Z RUC SHWNG SLOW INCREASE IN CAPE/LI VALUES THRU THE NIGHT ACRS SW 1/2 FCST AREA. SFC LO AND ASSOCD S/WV WILL TRACK EAST INTO REGION NEAR DAWN. BOW ECHO IN CNTRL INDIANA SHOULD RIDE FRNTL BNDRY SE INTO SE INDIANA COUNTIES AND TRI STATE AREA BTWN 03-04Z. BUT WITH ATMOSPHERE MORE STABLE AND LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...EXPECT SOME WEAKENING IN TSTMS AS THEY APPROACH CVG METRO. ANY POTENTIAL FOR ISOLD SVR STORMS LIKELY TO REMAIN CONFINED TO THE TRI STATE AREA OVERNIGHT. MAIN CONCERN WOULD BE FOR HAILERS...WB ZERO HANGING AROUND 8KFT. MAY ALSO HAVE TO WATCH FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING LATER IN TRI STATE AS WELL IF TSTMS MAINTAIN THEIR INTENSITY. AT LEAST COUNTY FFG VALUES HAVE RECOVERED SOMEWHAT FROM THE HEAVY RAINS OVER THE WEEKEND...WITH 1 HR GUIDANCE NOW ABV 1 INCH. ONLY BIG CHANGE TO CURRENT FCST PACKAGE WILL BE TO BUMP TEMPS UP ACRS TRI STATE REGION...WHERE DEWPTS ALREADY AROUND 60 F. ALSO WILL REMOVE ERLY CHC POPS IN CNTRL OH AND RIDE WITH LKLY POPS OVERNIGHT. UPDATE OUT BY 930 PM. .ILN...NONE. RYAN
Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 4:18 AM EST, 18 hours 36 minutes before
INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-141100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 518 AM EDT WED MAY 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:53 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Union
- When
- May 14, 11:15 PM EST to 11:20 PM EST
- Where
- Union County, Liberty
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.633, -84.933
Hail, Ripley
- When
- May 14, 11:50 PM EST to 11:55 PM EST
- Where
- Ripley County, 7 mi S of Versailles
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.967, -85.250
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 in Texas, May 14, 2003
- Tornado in Oklahoma, May 14, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, May 14, 2003
- Hail in Texas, May 14, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, May 14, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Illinois, May 14, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 14, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 14, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 14, 2003
- Damaging Wind and Strong Wind in California, May 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Louisiana, May 14 to 15, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 14, 2003
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, May 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: 5363154, 5363155, 5363156.