Name: Hail in Florida, August 14, 2005
Start: 2005-08-14T11:56
End: 2005-08-14T11:56
Location: Florida

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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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 14, 8:24 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 8:24 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
924 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005

.DISCUSSION...GENERAL RIDGING ALOFT CONTINUES TO DOMINATE MUCH
OF THE AREA...HOWEVER THE RUC DOES PLACE A WEAKNESS ALOFT ALONG
THE WEST FL COAST. AT THE SURFACE THE MSAS AND SFC OBS LOCATE A
BROAD RIDGE FROM THE ATLANTIC ACROSS FL TO THE GULF WITH AN AXIS
OVER THE NORTH END OF THE NATURE COAST. ONLY CONCERN FOR TODAY IS
THE LOWER PWAT ALONG THE WEST COAST...THE TBW 12Z RAOB CAME IN
WITH 1.74 INCHES. THIS IS LOWER THAN 24 HRS. AGO AND CURRENT
GUIDANCE. AM TEMPTED TO TRIM POPS TODAY BUT SINCE THE END RESULT
WOULD STILL IN THE SCATTERED RANGE AND THE HIGHER POPS ARE OVER
THE INTERIOR WILL LEAVE FORECAST AS IS.

&&

.MARINE...VARIABLE OR LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS ON THE GULF WILL
SHIFT TO WEST IN THE AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE. THE LATE NIGHT/EARLY
MORNING LIGHT SHOW HAS TRENDED DOWN TO JUST A FEW SHOWERS WHICH WILL
CONTINUE ISOLATED THROUGH THE DAY ALONG WITH SOME TSTMS. FORECAST OUT
BY 1015 AM WITH LITTLE CHANGE.

&&

.TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

RKR

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 4:30 AM EST, 7 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
530 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005

FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-141400-
CHARLOTTE-CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HERNANDO-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-LEE-
LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-PINELLAS-POLK-SARASOTA-SUMTER-
530 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY:

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY ALONG
SEABREEZE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. STORMS WILL BE MOST PREVALENT
ACROSS THE INTERIOR AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES...AND WILL GENERALLY MOVE
TO THE EAST THROUGH THE DAY. THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THESE STORMS WILL
BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINS BRIEFLY REDUCING
VISIBILITIES AND CAUSING WATER TO COLLECT ON ROADS AND LOW LYING
AREAS...AND GUSTY WINDS.

WHEN SKIES DARKEN...MOVE INDOORS. IF THERE IS TIME...UNPLUG
APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. WAIT UNTIL THE STORM ENDS BEFORE
USING THE TELEPHONE OR RUNNING WATER.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
UPDATES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY:

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EACH AFTERNOON WITH GUSTY
WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS POSING THE GREATEST
HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

&&

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW (LOWER CASE)

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 11:38 AM EST, 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1238 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005

FLZ050-141715-
PINELLAS-
1238 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PINELLAS
COUNTY...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...NEARLY STATIONARY...WILL AFFECT
SEMINOLE...MADEIRA BEACH...TREASURE ISLAND...SAINT PETERSBURG...
PINELLAS PARK...LEALMAN AND KENNETH CITY...UNTIL 115 PM EDT. GUSTY
WINDS UP TO 40 MPH MAY BE POSSIBLE. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW
SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL.
TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES.
MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING THIS AFTERNOON.

JCM

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:56 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pinellas

When: August 14, 11:56 AM EST
Where: Pinellas County, 3 mi NW of St Petersburg
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 27.800, -82.700

Quarter size hail was reported at the intersection of 58th Street and 30th Avenue.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5470033.