Hail, Lucas
- When
- May 27, 5:44 PM EST
- Where
- Lucas County, Sylvania
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.717, -83.700
Penny size hail was observed.
Hail in Ohio, May 27, 2004
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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 27, 1:25 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:25 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 225 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004 .DISCUSSION... TONIGHTS PROBLEM IS WHETHER TSTMS WL BE SEVERE AND WHETHER A FLOOD WATCH WILL BE NEEDED. ATTM THE LOW CLDS LIMITING OUR INSTABILITY...HOWEVER...THE MAIN FOCUS OF ACTIVITY SHOULD BE THE COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOV INTO NW OH ARND 05Z. SEVERE WX THREAT MAY BE LOW IF WE HAV TO WAIT TILL AFT 05Z. ALSO WATCHG BOUNDARY CENTRAL IL.TSTMS WL PROBABLY FIRE ON THAT BY 22Z. THAT ACTIVITY MAY JUST MISS THE CWA. ATTM IT LOOKS LIKE MOST OF THE WEATHER SHOULD BE OUT OF CWA. DRY WEATHER FOR FRI THRU SAT NGT. ATTM WILL TRY TO KEEP ERN CWA DRY FOR MUCH OF SUNDAY. ATTM MODELS IN AGREEMENT WITH MOVG COLD FRONT THROUGH QUICKLY ON MEMORIAL DAY...MOST OF THE WEATHER SHOULD BE SUNDAY NIGHT. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. && KIELTYKA
Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 5:08 AM EST, 12 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 608 AM EDT THU MAY 27 2004 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-271207- ASHLAND OH-ASHTABULA INLAND OH-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE OH-CRAWFORD PA- CRAWFORD OH-CUYAHOGA OH-ERIE OH-GEAUGA OH-HANCOCK OH-HOLMES OH- HURON OH-KNOX OH-LAKE OH-LORAIN OH-LUCAS OH-MAHONING OH-MARION OH- MEDINA OH-MORROW OH-NORTHERN ERIE PA-OTTAWA OH-PORTAGE OH- RICHLAND OH-SANDUSKY OH-SENECA OH-SOUTHERN ERIE PA-STARK OH- SUMMIT OH-TRUMBULL OH-WAYNE OH-WOOD OH-WYANDOT OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AKRON...ASHLAND...ASHTABULA... BOWLING GREEN...BUCYRUS...CANTON...CHARDON...CLEVELAND...ELYRIA... ERIE...FINDLAY...FOSTORIA...FREMONT...JEFFERSON...LORAIN... MANSFIELD...MARION...MEADVILLE...MEDINA...MILLERSBURG... MOUNT GILEAD...MOUNT VERNON...NORWALK...PAINESVILLE...PORT CLINTON... RAVENNA...SANDUSKY...TIFFIN...TOLEDO...UPPER SANDUSKY...WARREN... WOOSTER AND YOUNGSTOWN 608 AM EDT THU MAY 27 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THIS AFTERNOON EXPANDING INTO NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS ON MONDAY...MEMORIAL DAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT IF SEVERE STORMS BEGIN TO DEVELOP.
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:42 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Ashtabula
- When
- May 27, 8:35 PM EST
- Where
- Ashtabula County, Rock Creek
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.667, -80.867
Penny size hail was observed three miles southeast of Rock Creek near Roaming Shores.
Hail, Sandusky
- When
- May 27, 9:15 PM EST
- Where
- Sandusky County, Lindsey
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.417, -83.217
Penny size hail was observed.
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 Flooding in Kentucky, May 27 to 28, 2004
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- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2004
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- Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, May 27 to 28, 2004
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- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 27, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2004
More
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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: 5400751, 5400752, 5400753.