Hail, Lucas
- When
- May 9, 6:10 PM EST
- Where
- Lucas County, Toledo
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.650, -83.550
Penny size hail was observed.
Hail in Ohio, May 9, 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 9, 1:55 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 1:55 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 255 PM EDT SUN MAY 9 2004 .DISCUSSION... BEST INSTABILITY DEVELOPING OVR N INDIANA AND LWR MI. MODELS PINPOINTING BEST UVV AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IN THIS AREA AS WELL. ATMOSPHERE NOT CAPPED TODAY AND WE ARE AT CONVECTIVE TEMPS ALREADY. WL LIKELY SEE SHOWERS/STORMS DVLP IN THIS AREA AS WELL AS EAST OF CLEVELAND CLOSE TO WRMFNT AND MOVE EAST AND MAYBE SOUTHEAST ACRS NW PA. CAPES PROGGED TO INCREASE TO 1500-1800 BY LATE AFTRN EXCEPT OVR NW PA WHERE INSTABILITY ELEVATED. FNT SHOULD FINALLY SHIFT NORTH MONDAY. AIRMASS IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE BUT WITHOUT TRIGGER WILL LIKELY NOT BE MUCH ACTIVITY ON MONDAY. ETA SHOWS BETTER INSTABILITY AND HIGHER THETA-E TOWARD APPALACHIANS AND BRUSHING E PART OF FCST AREA. HIGHER GUIDANCE POPS MON NGT ESP N PART OF FCST AREA WHERE FNT WILL APPROACH. TEMP GUIDANCE MAY BE A DEGREE OR TWO TOO WARM TOMORROW OTHERWISE CLOSE THROUGH MON NGT. MODELS CONT TO SHOW FNT DROPPING BACK SOUTH ON TUE. NOT SURE HOW FAR SOUTH IT WILL GO. GFS PUSHES IT INTO FCST AREA WHILE ETA BARELY GETS IT ACROSS LAKE ERIE. WL INDICATE LOWER TEMPS NEAR LAKE ERIE AND KEEP INLAND AREAS FAIRLY WARM. FNT SHIFTS BACK NORTH WED ALTHOUGH MODELS SHOW DEEPER GULF MOISTURE SHIFTING BACK NORTH INTO AREA BY THUR. IN THE EXTENDED FCST...ALL EXTENDED MODELS TRENDING TOWARD ECMWF SOLUTION TRYING TO BACKDOOR FRONT DOWN INTO FCST AREA ON SATURDAY BUT THEN YET ANOTHER SFC WAVE PROGGED TO DVLOP TO THE WEST BRINGING MOISTURE AND SHOWER THREAT BACK INTO THE AREA ON SUNDAY. HPC/NCEP SEEMS OK WITH THIS SOLUTION AND WL MENTION SHOWERS STORMS BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FOR NOW. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. && KOSARIK
Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 10:20 AM EST, 7 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK... UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1120 AM EDT SUN MAY 9 2004 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-091719- 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 1120 AM EDT SUN MAY 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTION OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 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 Flood in Pennsylvania, May 9 to 10, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 9, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 9 to 10, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 9, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 9, 2004
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 9, 2004
- Tornado in Minnesota, May 9, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Michigan, May 9 to 10, 2004
- Hail in Nebraska, May 9, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Maryland, May 9, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, May 9, 2004
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Michigan, May 9, 2004
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, 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: 5400183.