Hail, Berkshire
- When
- May 23, 6:45 PM EST
- Where
- Berkshire County, West Otis
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.183, -73.150
Hail in Massachusetts, May 23, 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 Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 23, 2:45 PM EST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:45 PM EST, 4 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 345 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004 DISC...FFA WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THRU MON MRNG. NCEP 24 HR QPF LOOKG FOR A 24HR 1.5 INCH BULLSEYE IN ZNS NW KALB WITH GENERALLY ONE INCH OVR RST OF WATCH AREA. ALSO WATCH AREA FITS INTO ISOLD EXCESSIVE RNFL AREA FOR PD ENDG 00Z TUE. BOTH GFS AND META HAVE PWATER IN EXCESS OF 1.5 INCHES OVERNGT. PCPN FROM LAST NGTS STORMS IN THE 1.0 TO 1.5 INCH RANGE ACRS NRN HERKIMER/NRN HAMILTON CTYS. QSTRNY FNT STILL DRAPED W-E ALG SRN NY BDR INTO SRN NEW ENG WITH TEMPS IN THE 50S/60S N AND W KALB AND TEMPS IN THE 80S TO THE SE. SCT TSTMS BEGINNING TO FIRE S FNT AND ALSO SW KBUF. STILL LOOKING FOR FNT TO LIFT NWD TO NR LAT OF MHWK VLY TNGT AND ERY TUES THEN ENTIRE SYSTEM WILL FINALLY MOVE E FA MON EVE. AS BEFORE ANY BREAK IN ACTION WILL BE SHORT LIVED WITH ANTHR FNT WED. .AVIATION...CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES WILL REMAIN IN THE VFR RANGE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING. VISIBILITIES AND CEILINGS WILL BE REDUCED TO THE IFR RANGE OVERNIGHT AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE REGION. EXPECT CONDITIONS TO IMPROVE LATE IN THE DAY ON MONDAY. .HYDROLOGY...MAIN HYDRO PROB NXT FEW DAYS WILL BE PSBLTY OF TSTMS TRAINING ACRS SAME AREA WITH LOCALIZED HVY RAIN. .ALY...FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING THRU MON MRNG. MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-082>084- VTZ013>015- GG
Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 4:10 AM EST, 14 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 510 AM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-241100- THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS POSSIBLE...MAINLY FROM LATE THIS MORNING INTO TONIGHT. THE THREAT IS FROM THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE FROM THUNDERSTORMS THAT TRAIN ACROSS THE SAME LOCATION. THIS COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THOUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION AND MORE DETAIL...VISIT US ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV. FROM THERE YOU CAN CLICK ON THE AREA YOU ARE INTERESTED IN...AND VISIT THE LOCAL FORECAST OFFICE IN THAT AREA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 23, 4:32 PM EST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 532 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004 CTZ013-232200- ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY... AT 530 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...SMALL HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OAKVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER WATERBURY...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HANCOCK...TOLLES AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF ALLENTOWN BY 540 PM EDT
Local storm report, May 23, 5:24 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
624 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0622 PM HAIL MORRIS 41.68N 73.20W
05/23/2004 0.88 INCH LITCHFIELD CT TRAINED SPOTTER
&&The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:43 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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 23, 2004
- Flooding in Michigan, May 23 to 24, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Illinois, May 23, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, May 23, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, May 23, 2004
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, May 23, 2004
- Flood in Puerto Rico, May 23, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 23, 2004
- Flood in Wisconsin, May 23 to 31, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, May 23, 2004
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 23, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in New York, May 23 to 24, 2004
More
Every storm in Massachusetts in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Massachusetts, May 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: 5401041.