Hail, Monterey
- When
- February 23, 1:58 PM PST to 2:00 PM PST
- Where
- Monterey County, 5 mi NW of Parkfield
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.950, -120.500
Hail in California, February 23, 2005
A strong thunderstorm passed over Southern Monterey County, with nickel size hail reported near Parkfield.
Where it happened
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- 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 happened
The episode as NWS MTR wrote it up.
A strong thunderstorm passed over Southern Monterey County, with nickel size hail reported near Parkfield.
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 San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 23, 8:48 AM PST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 8:48 AM PST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA
848 AM PST WED FEB 23 2005
.DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW IS LOCATED ALONG THE SOCAL COAST. SHOWER
ACTIVITY IS WELL TO THE SOUTH OF THE DISTRICT THIS MORNING. IN
FACT...SUMMER-LIKE STRATUS PATTERN OVER THE COAST IN MOIST NW FLOW.
THE GFS ROTATES A VORT MAX INTO THE DISTRICT THIS AFTERNOON...WITH
THE 12Z GFS ACTUALLY GENERATING QPF. BASED ON SATL IMAGERY DO NOT SEE
ANY TYPE OF FORCING THAT WOULD BRING SHOWER ACTIVITY TO THE
DISTRICT...SO HAVE DECIDED NOT TO ADD SHOWERS TO THE FORECAST. NEXT
CHANCE OF SIGNIFICANT RAIN WOULD BE ON SUNDAY.
CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS GOOD...NO UPDATES.
&&
.MTR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TDA...SCA...PIGEON PT TO PT PIEDRAS BLANCAS.
&&
PUBLIC FORECAST: STROBIN
MARINE/AVIATION: DYKEMA
NWS ON THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO (ALL LOWER CASE)The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:57 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
- Lightning Strike and Heavy Rain in Georgia, February 23, 2005
- Hail in Texas, February 23, 2005
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Louisiana, February 23, 2005
- Flash Flood in California, February 23, 2005
- Hail in Texas, February 23 to 24, 2005
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 23, 2005
- Hail in Texas, February 23, 2005
- Hail in Oklahoma, February 23, 2005
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, February 23, 2005
- Winter Weather in Illinois, February 23 to 24, 2005
- Hail in Mississippi, February 23, 2005
- Hail in Arizona, February 23, 2005
More
Every storm in California in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2005
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: 5436749.