Hail, Broward
- When
- July 6, 3:10 PM EST
- Where
- Broward County, 2 mi N of Coral Spgs
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 26.300, -80.217
One inch diameter hail was reported in Parkland.
Hail in Florida, July 6, 2004
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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 1:00 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 1:00 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SOUTH FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 200 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004 .DISCUSSION...SURFACE RIDGE SHIFTING SOUTH AS I WRITE THIS AND WILL END UP OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TIP OF THE PENINSULA ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE MOVING BACK NORTH AGAIN ON THURSDAY. DRY AIR ALOFT CONTINUES OVER THE BAHAMAS EXTENDING WESTWARD TO SOUTH FLORIDA. THUS POPS WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN BELOW CLIMO WITH VERY WEAK STEERING FLOW. THIS WILL MEAN THAT CONVECTION THIS EVENING TO BE CONFINED AROUND THE NORTHERN ZONES AND THEN PRETTY MUCH DEVELOP ANYWHERE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT TO THE CELLS. SHOULD THEN GET BACK MORE TO A NORTHWEST-WEST ZONE COVERAGE ON THURSDAY WITH SE FLOW RETURNING. VERY WEAK WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA ON SATURDAY WITH A SLIGHT INCREASE IN POPS BUT STILL NOTHING TO ALLEVIATE THE DRY CONDITIONS THEN WE DRY OUT AGAIN LATE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .MARINE...VERY WEAK SURFACE FLOW WILL CONTINUE NEARLY CALM SEAS. WIND SPEEDS AT 10 KNOTS OR LESS WILL RESULT IN SEAS AT 2 FEET OR LESS THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD. && .FIRE WEATHER...NO CONCERNS WITH PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WEST PALM BEACH 76 91 76 90 / 20 40 20 20 FORT LAUDERDALE 78 90 78 90 / 10 30 20 20 MIAMI 79 91 78 91 / 10 30 20 20 NAPLES 76 89 76 91 / 10 10 - 40 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 8:00 AM EST, 7 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 900 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA FLZ068-072-074-062200- BROWARD METROPOLITAN-DADE METROPOLITAN-PALM BEACH EASTERN- 900 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY ...HEAT INDICES 100 TO 105 THIS AFTERNOON EAST COAST... ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INLAND EAST COAST METRO AREAS TODAY... HEAT INDICES GET INTO THE 100 TO 105 RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SCATTERED OVER THE INLAND AREAS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FLZ063-066-067-062200- GLADES-HENDRY-PALM BEACH WESTERN- 900 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY ...FEW STRONG STORMS LATE TODAY OR THIS EVENING OVER NORTH INTERIOR......HEAT INDICES 105 TO 110 THIS AFTERNOON INTERIOR... THE WEST COAST AND EAST COAST SEA BREEZES SHOULD DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND PUSH INLAND WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE SEA BREEZES. WHERE THE SEA BREEZES AND LAKE BREEZES COLLIDE LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING...A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING STRIKES...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE HEAT INDICES GET INTO THE 105 TO 110 RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FLZ069>071-073-075-062200- EASTERN COLLIER-MAINLAND MONROE-WESTERN BROWARD-WESTERN COLLIER- WESTERN DADE- 900 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INLAND WEST COAST METRO AREAS TODAY... ...HEAT INDICES 100 TO 105 THIS AFTERNOON WEST COAST AREAS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SCATTERED OVER THE INLAND WEST COAST METRO AREAS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH. THE HEAT INDICES GET INTO THE 100 TO 105 RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 2:40 PM EST, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 340 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004 FLZ067-068-072-062000- BROWARD METROPOLITAN-PALM BEACH EASTERN-PALM BEACH WESTERN- 340 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTHWEST OF CORAL SPRINGS... AT 340 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING AREAS JUST 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORAL SPRINGS ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF THE SAWGRASS EXPRESSWAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SHOULD THE STORMS INTENSIFY ANY FURTHER...A WARNING WILL BE ISSUED. 57
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:07 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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 6, 2004
- Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, July 6 to 7, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, July 6, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 6, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 6, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, July 6, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 6, 2004
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 6, 2004
More
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 2004
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: 5411262.