Hail, Leon
- When
- June 3, 12:25 PM EST
- Where
- Leon County, Tallahassee
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.450, -84.283
Penny size hail near the Tallahassee Mall reported by the public.
Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 3, 2004
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 12:05 PM EST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 12:05 PM EST, 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 105 PM EDT THU JUN 3 2004 .SYNOPSIS...VISIBLE SATELLITE SHOWED STRONG CONVECTION OVER SE AL/ERN FL PANHANDLE ASSOCIATED W/ MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE VORT MOVING THRU AL. SPC ISSUED SEVERE TSTM WATCH UNTIL 5 PM EDT (4 PM CDT) FOR AREAS E OF A DHN-AAF LINE AS ACTIVITY MOVES EWD THIS AFTN. MODIFIED 12Z TLH SOUNDING YIELDED 2757 CAPE & -6 LI. MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS/MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL. && .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-SUNDAY)...UPPER TROUGH OVER IL/MO MEANDERS ACROSS KY/TN THE NEXT 48 HRS THEN WEAKENS/LIFTS INTO NEW ENGLAND ON SUNDAY LEAVING IN ITS WAKE A WEAKNESS ALOFT. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER FORMS INVOF AL/GA TONIGHT THEN DRIFTS NEWD TO THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES SATURDAY. TRAILING FRONT MOVES THRU SE AL/FL PANHANDLE BY FRI AFTN & S GA/FL BIG BEND FRI NIGHT. FRONT WASHES OUT THIS WEEKEND AS BERMUDA RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE TRI-STATE AREA. INCREASING SUBSIDENCE/LOWER PRECIPITABLE WATER WILL RESULT IN A RETURN TO NEAR CLIMO TEMPS/POPS. .LONG TERM (MONDAY-THURSDAY)... THE BERMUDA HIGH WILL BECOME THE DOMINANT FEATURE...RESULTING IN A LIGHT TO MODERATE SELY FLOW IN THE MEAN 1000-700 MB LAYER. FOR OUR LOCAL SEABREEZE CLIMATOLOGY...WILL STICK W/ LOW CHANCE POPS. && .MARINE...NO HIGHLIGHTS. SURFACE RIDGE AXIS WILL GRADUALLY SLIDE E OF THE WATERS...ALLOWING WINDS TO BACK FROM W/SW TO S/SE BY END OF PERIOD. && .FIRE WEATHER...NO CONCERNS. RH VALUES WILL STAY WELL ABOVE CRITICAL THRESHOLDS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TLH 68 88 67 90/ 50 40 20 20 PFN 73 86 72 88/ 30 30 10 20 DHN 69 86 68 88/ 30 20 10 20 ABY 69 87 67 89/ 40 30 10 20 VLD 69 88 68 89/ 50 40 20 20 CTY 69 87 69 88/ 50 50 20 30 && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. && MAJ
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 8:42 AM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 942 AM EDT THU JUN 3 2004 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ750- 755-770-775-040945- BAKER GA-BAY FL-BEN HILL GA-BERRIEN GA-BROOKS GA-CALHOUN GA- CALHOUN FL-CLAY GA-COASTAL WALTON FL-COFFEE AL-COLQUITT GA-COOK GA- DALE AL-DECATUR GA-DIXIE FL-DOUGHERTY GA-EARLY GA-FRANKLIN FL- GADSDEN FL-GENEVA AL-GRADY GA-GULF FL-HENRY AL-HOLMES FL-HOUSTON AL- INLAND WALTON FL-IRWIN GA-JACKSON FL-JEFFERSON FL-LAFAYETTE FL- LANIER GA-LEE GA-LEON FL-LIBERTY FL-LOWNDES GA-MADISON FL-MILLER GA- MITCHELL GA-QUITMAN GA-RANDOLPH GA-SEMINOLE GA-TAYLOR FL-TERRELL GA- THOMAS GA-TIFT GA-TURNER GA-WAKULLA FL-WASHINGTON FL-WORTH GA- 942 AM EDT THU JUN 3 2004 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND EASTERN PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING LATER THIS MORNING AS A SQUALL LINE MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT GULF WATERS...AND DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS FOR SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN FRIDAY AS THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS UNSTABLE AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE OUTLOOK AREA FROM THE WEST. THE MAIN THREATS WILL AGAIN BE DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE MAINLY EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BUT ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SOME STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND. SPOTTERS ARE ALSO REQUESTED TO SELF-ACTIVATE IF ANY WARNINGS ARE ISSUED FOR THEIR AREA OR IF ANY FLOODING IS OBSERVED. .RIP CURRENTS... THERE IS A MODERATE THREAT FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE BEACHES...ESPECIALLY FOR THE SOUTHWEST-FACING BEACHES WEST OF APALACHICOLA. A RIP CURRENT IS A STRONG NARROW CURRENT OF WATER FLOWING FROM THE BEACH THROUGH THE SURF ZONE. IT CAN RAPIDLY CARRY A SWIMMER INTO DEEPER WATER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...WADE SIDEWAYS PARALLEL TO THE BEACH UNTIL YOU ARE OUT OF ITS PULL. TO ESCAPE...RIDE THE CURRENT OUT BEYOND THE SURF ZONE WHERE THE RIP CURRENT DISSIPATES...THEN SWIM TO SHORE OUTSIDE THE NARROW CURRENT.F ZONE. IT CAN RAPIDLY CARRY A SWIMMER INTO DEEPER WATER. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. MAJ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:01 AM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1201 PM EDT THU JUN 3 2004 ALZ069-FLZ011-013>019-026>029-034-GAZ123-125-127-129-142>148-155>161- 032100- BAKER GA-BERRIEN GA-BROOKS GA-CALHOUN GA-CALHOUN FL-COLQUITT GA- COOK GA-DECATUR GA-DIXIE FL-DOUGHERTY GA-EARLY GA-FRANKLIN FL- GADSDEN FL-GRADY GA-GULF FL-HOUSTON AL-JACKSON FL-JEFFERSON FL- LAFAYETTE FL-LANIER GA-LEON FL-LIBERTY FL-LOWNDES GA-MADISON FL- MILLER GA-MITCHELL GA-SEMINOLE GA-TAYLOR FL-THOMAS GA-TIFT GA- WAKULLA FL-WORTH GA- 1210 PM EDT THU JUN 3 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON (400 PM CDT). THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN ALABAMA...HOUSTON. IN FLORIDA...JACKSON...CALHOUN...GULF...GADSDEN...LIBERTY... FRANKLIN...LEON...WAKULLA...JEFFERSON...MADISON...TAYLOR... DIXIE...AND LAFAYETTE. IN GEORGIA...EARLY...MILLER...SEMINOLE...CALHOUN...BAKER... DECATUR...DOUGHERTY...MITCHELL...GRADY...WORTH...COLQUITT... THOMAS...TIFT...COOK...BROOKS...BERRIEN...LANIER...AND LOWNDES. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 17-GOULD
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Leon
- When
- June 3, 12:45 PM EST to 12:55 PM EST
- Where
- Leon County, Tallahassee
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.450, -84.283
Numerous downed trees and power lines in northeast Tallahassee. Power outages affected 10,000 customers. Reported by Tallahassee Police.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, June 3, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 3, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2004
- Hail in South Dakota, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 2004
- Flooding in Iowa, June 3, 2004
More
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, June 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: 5404645, 5404644.