Hail, Walton
- When
- August 15, 9:06 PM EST
- Where
- Walton County, Bruce
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.467, -85.950
Penny size hail was reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
Hail in Florida, August 15, 2006
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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 15, 7:35 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 7:35 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 835 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2006 .DISCUSSION...A LARGE MCS IS CURRENTLY IMPACTING OUR WESTERN CWA. ALREADY UPDATED ZONES TO INCREASE POPS FOR SE AL AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT OF STORMS TAKING A TURN MORE TO THE SOUTHWEST SO MAY NOT SEE MUCH ACTIVITY EAST OF THE RIVER ASIDE FROM THE PRESENT ISOLATED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. PLAN ON UPDATING ZONES LATE THIS EVENING TO EITHER LOWER OR REMOVE POPS ALTOGETHER. && .MARINE...LIGHT WINDS AND LOW SEAS OVERNIGHT. && .AVIATION...A CLUSTER OF SHRA/TSRA WILL AFFECT SE AL AND THE DHN TERMINAL THROUGH THE LATE EVENING...WITH IFR CIGS/VSBYS POSSIBLE IN THE HEAVIER STORMS. ELSEWHERE...ISOLD-SCT SHRA/TSRA WILL DISSIPATE THROUGH THE EVENING....LEAVING MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. SOME PATCHY FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE EARLY MORNING ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHICH RECEIVED RAINFALL THIS EVENING. HAVE INCLUDED A MORNING TEMPO GROUP FOR IFR VSBYS AT DHN...WITH MVFR AT ABY AND VLD. EXPECT MORE OF THE SAME ON WED AFTN...WITH SCT CU DEVELOPING BY LATE MORNING AND SCT SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPING BY 18Z. && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. && AVIATION/FIRE WX...SHAFER/LANIER PUBLIC/MARINE...BARRY
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 5:13 AM EST, 15 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 613 AM EDT TUE AUG 15 2006 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161- GMZ750-755-770-775-161015- COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-COASTAL WALTON- HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-BAY-CALHOUN-GULF-FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON- JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-WAKULLA-TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-DIXIE-QUITMAN- CLAY-RANDOLPH-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL- IRWIN-EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK-BERRIEN-SEMINOLE- DECATUR-GRADY-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER- COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL OUT TO 20 NM- WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 513 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006 /613 AM EDT TUE AUG 15 2006/ THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MORING HOURS AND AGAIN TONIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO RESULT IN LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS AND SEAS. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE INTO SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. MORE ISOLATED ACTIVITY IS ANTISIPATED ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. ALTHOUGH SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY STILL CONTAIN FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWN POURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER EPISODES ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...BUT SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION SHOULD CONDITIONS CHANGE. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TAE. MROCZKA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 6:48 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 748 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2006 ALZ065>069-160115- COFFEE-DALE-GENEVA-HENRY-HOUSTON- 648 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR COFFEE...DALE...GENEVA... HENRY AND HOUSTON COUNTIES... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF ALABAMA...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... FORT RUCKER BY 720 PM CDT. ENTERPRISE BY 725 PM CDT. NEWTON BY 730 PM CDT. MIDLAND CITY BY 735 PM CDT. PINCKARD BY 740 PM CDT. KINSEY BY 750 PM CDT. WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND THEY ARE ALSO PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 22-BARRY
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 8:15 PM EST, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 915 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2006 ALZ065-066-068-160230- COFFEE-DALE-GENEVA- 815 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR COFFEE...DALE AND GENEVA COUNTIES... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER COFFEE...DALE AND GENEVA COUNTIES...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN GENEVA...COFFEE AND DALE COUNTIES...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND ARE ALSO PRODUCING NEARLY CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 22-BARRY
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 8:42 PM EST, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 942 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2006 FLZ007-009-160230- HOLMES-INLAND WALTON- 842 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR HOLMES AND WALTON COUNTIES... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT AT 840 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH INTO WALTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 TO 50 MPH. PEOPLE IN HOLMES AND NORTHERN WALTON COUNTIES...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND IS ALSO PRODUCING NEARLY CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 22-BARRY
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 11 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:06 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 New Mexico, August 15, 2006
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, August 15, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 15, 2006
- Lightning Strikes in Georgia, August 15, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 15, 2006
- Heavy Rain in Kansas, August 15, 2006
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, August 15, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 15, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 15, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 15, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 15, 2006
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 15, 2006
More
Every storm in Florida in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, August 2006
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: 5530361.