Hail, Erie
- When
- June 28, 2:12 PM EST
- Where
- Erie County, Waterford
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.950, -79.983
Nickel size hail was observed.
Hail in Pennsylvania, June 28, 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 1:50 PM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:50 PM EST, 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 250 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006 .SHORT TERM(TONIGHT-FRIDAY)... COUPLE WEAK SFC TROFS FOCUS FOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. ONE OVER EXTREME NW PA/ERN OH. THE OTHER OVER CENTRLA LOWER MI/NE IN. TSTMS AIDED BY COLD S/W TROF DROPPING SE INTO THE WESTERN LAKES. RISK SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING WITH COLD TEMPS ALOFT MAIN RISK SHOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL. STORMS OVER SE LWR MICHIGAN/NE INDIANA BECOMING LITTLE BETTER ORGANIZED AT MID AFTERNOON THAT GUSTY WINDS COULD ALSO BE PROBLME. EXPECT THAT THE SHWRS/TSTMS WILL MAINLY BE DIURNAL BUT FEW TSTMS CONTINUED LAST NIGHT UPSTREAM CLOSE TO THE UPPER TROF...SO WILL NOT USE ANY TIMING OVERNIGHT. UPPER LEVEL COLD TROF MOVES ACROSS THE AREA TOMORROW AND WILL CONTINUE WITH CHANCE POPS TOMORROW...AND IN THE EAST EARLY TOMORROW NIGHT. HI PRESSURE BUILDS IN ON FRIDAY FOR AT LEAST A BRIEF PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER. && .LONG TERM (SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... NO BIG CHANGES MADE IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST. GENERALLY UPPER LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE WEST WITH TROF OVER THE EASTERN U.S.. HOWEVER INITIALLY EASTERN TROF RATHER FLAT DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE PERIOD...THEN BECOMES MORE AMPLIFIED AT THE END OF THE PERIOD AGAIN. THIS SUPORTED BY BOTH OPERATIONAL GFS AND ECWMF. WILL KEEP CHANCE OF TSTMS GOING FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD. WRMFNT SHOULD LIFT N AREA SATURDAY WITH COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTH THROUGH THE LOWER LAKES AND UPPER OH VLY SUNDAY...WITH WAVE MOVING EAST THROUGH REGION MONDAY. FRONT SHOULD SAG FAR ENOUGH SOUTH ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH HIGH PRES BEGINNING TO BUILD IN...KEEPING TUE AND WED DRY. && .AVIATION(18Z-18Z)... TWO AREAS OF CONCERN NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. FIRST IS LINE OF TSRA DEVELOPING OVER ERN OH. THIS ACTIVITY DEVELOPING ALONG AXIS OF INSTABILITY. STRONGEST STORMS THIS AREA SHOULD BE JUST S OF LERI WHERE LAKE/LAND INTERACTION CREATING SLIGHTLY BETTER WIND PROFILE NEAR THE SURFACE. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE E OF KERI AND KYNG NEXT COUPLE HOURS. WILL ALSO HAVE TO MONITOR STORMS MOVING ACROSS IN AND MI. THESE STORMS ALSO IN AN AXIS OF INSTABILITY AND ARE BEING HELPED ALONG BY A WEAK SURFACE COLD FRONT AND WAVE ALOFT. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO BECOME THE DOMINANT PLAYERS THE NEXT FEW HOURS. VERY STEEP LAPSE RATES AND COOL TEMPS ALOFT SO HAIL WILL BE A THREAT TODAY. WILL TRY TO TIME THESE STORMS ACROSS NRN OH LATE THIS AFT WITH SHORT TEMPO GROUPS. ONCE THEY MOVE THRU...WX BEHIND SHOULD BE FAIRLY QUIET. COULD SEE SUM FOG AGAIN LATE TONIGHT. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .OH...NONE. .PA...NONE. && SHORT TERM...WCR LONG TERM...WCR AVIATION...KUBINA
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 5:13 AM EST, 8 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 613 AM EDT WED JUN 28 2006 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-291015- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA- ASHTABULA INLAND-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE- TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING- MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 613 AM EDT WED JUN 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. WIND AND HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. IN ADDITION SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. WHILE WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT ANTICIPATED LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY AND AGAIN DURING THE WEEKEND AND WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR RAINFALL AMOUNTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. LEZ142>149-162>169-291015- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH- GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH-CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- MAUMEE BAY OH TO RENO BEACH OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-GENEVA-ON- THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- 613 AM EDT WED JUN 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE TODAY AND TONIGHT. WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE HIGHER IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:10 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
- Flood in New Jersey, June 28 to 30, 2006
- Flash Flood and Flood in Pennsylvania, June 28 to 30, 2006
- Flood in Pennsylvania, June 28 to 30, 2006
- Flood in New Jersey, June 28 to 30, 2006
- Flood in New York, June 28 to 30, 2006
- Flood in Pennsylvania, June 28 to 29, 2006
- Flood in New York, June 28 to 30, 2006
- Flash Flood and Flood in Pennsylvania, June 28 to 29, 2006
- Flood in New Jersey, June 28 to 30, 2006
- Flash Flood and Flood in Pennsylvania, June 28, 2006
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 28, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 28, 2006
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, June 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: 5518145.