Hail in Ohio, April 23, 2011

Name: Hail in Ohio, April 23, 2011
Start: 2011-04-23T00:25
End: 2011-04-23T00:26
Location: Ohio

April 23, 2011 · NWS IWX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Thunderstorms developed along a slow moving frontal boundary during the late evening hours of the 22nd and continuing into the 23rd. A few reports of hail were received.

Where it happened

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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 happened

The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.

Thunderstorms developed along a slow moving frontal boundary during the late evening hours of the 22nd and continuing into the 23rd. A few reports of hail were received.

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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 22, 7:06 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 7:06 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
806 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2011

.AVIATION.../00Z TAFS/
POTENT UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED SFC CYCLONE
WILL PUSH EAST THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE PERIOD. SFC LOW
WILL ADVECT OVER THE FA TONIGHT...WITH LIFTING OF THE SFC WARM FRONT
NORTH INTO THE FA. STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES COMBINED WITH LARGE
SCALE ASCENT AND LL FORCING WILL SUPPORT SHRA AND TS THROUGH THE
EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. VIS AND CIG RESTRICTIONS
WILL CONTINUE TO WAVER IN THE LOWER MVFR TO IFR RANGE WITH SCT IFR
CIGS POSSIBLE NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT. COLD FRONT WILL RAPIDLY
PROGRESS EAST THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT...WITH LL DRYING AND A
TREND TO VFR CIGS/VIS BY SAT MORNING/AFTERNOON.

STRONGER TS CELLS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH
IN DIAMETER THIS EVENING.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 436 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2011/

..HEAVY RAIN LIKELY NEXT WEEK...

SHORT TERM...
POTENT BUT WKNG MCV OVR NW IN WILL CONT EWD THROUGH MID AFTN
W/ATTENDANT HEAVY STRATIFORM RAIN SHIELD SPREADING EWD INTO NW OH
SHORTLY. HWVR ATTN FOCUSED ON SHARP MID LVL TROUGH OVR SD AND
ATTENDANT SFC WAVE OVR WRN MO. STG DESTABILIZATION CONTS ACRS MUCH
OF MO THIS AFTN E OF SFC WAVE AND W/RAMPING LLJ TIED TO EJECTING ML
TROUGH XPCD RENEWED CONVN TO FIRE BOTH NORTH OF SFC WMFNT EXTENDING
FM CNTRL MO EWD INTO SRN IN AND ALG CDFNT TRAILING SWWD INTO ERN OK
BY MID AFTN. HRRR SIMILAR TO 12Z HIGHRES GUIDANCE DVLPG VIGOROUS
CONVN ACRS NRN IL TWD 21-22Z AND SHIFTING IT RAPIDLY EWD ACRS THE
CWA BTWN 00-06Z THIS EVENING. CERTAINLY A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN
OVRTOP SATURATED GROUND...HWVR GIVEN THE DEGREE OF FLW ASSOCD OUT
AHD OF OPENING AND NEWD ACCELERATING ML TROUGH ...RAPID MOVEMENT OF
ADDNL PCPN NEGATES A GREATER POTENTIAL FLOOD RISK AND ASSOCD
HEADLINES WHICH ARE BTR SUITED FOR CONSIDERATION IN DYS3-4. SVR RISK
APPEARS MARGINAL GIVEN CONVECTIVELY MODIFIED DEEP/STABLE BUBBLE
EXTNDG WWD THROUGH CNTRL IL. HWVR WMFNTL BNDRY BULGING RAPIDLY NEWD
THROUGH NRN MO AHD OF EJECTING MID LVL TROUGH AND ATTENDANT SFC
WAVE. ELEVATED CAPE IN PRESENCE OF INCREASING HGT FALLS AND RAMPING
ASCENT SHLD YIELD MODERATELY VIGOROUS UPDRAFTS YET XPC MAINLY
SUB-SVR HAIL OUT OF THE STRONGEST CORES. OTHERWISE XPC LWR BNDRY LYR
WILL REMAIN COLD AND STABLE W/WIND DAMAGE THREAT UNLIKELY.

OTHERWISE LARGE SCALE DRY SLOT SWEEPS EWD LT TONIGHT AND SAT. WINDY
CONDS XPCD SAT AIDED BY INSOLATION AND LAGGING LL CAA. GIVEN DEPTH
OF POTENTIAL MIXING AND SUNSHINE...BUMPED MAX TEMPS SLIGHTLY HIGHER
ESP IN LIGHT OF 12Z MET MOS JUMP WHICH IS NOW MORE IN LINE W/WARMER
MAV MOS GUIDANCE.

NXT UPSTREAM SW DRIVING THROUGH THE EPAC THIS AFTN WILL DRIVE INLAND
TONIGHT AND DIG FURTHER ACRS THE SRN ROCKIES SAT. BACKING FLW
DOWNSTREAM AND CONTD BUBBLE OF RICH THETA-E SOUTH OF STALLED SFC
FNTL ZONE WILL LEAD TO ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS SAT NIGHT. ALOT OF
SPREAD SEEN IN 12Z MODEL GUIDANCE ON PLACEMENT OF SFC BNDRY AND
GENERALLY FVRD PLACEMENT ALG/NR OH RVR. ADDED SOME TEMPORAL DETAIL
BASED ON HIGHRES GUIDANCE BUT THAT MAY BE FUTILE GIVEN GENERAL MODEL
STRUGGLES ON SFC BNDRY EVOLUTION AND PLACEMENT LAST WEEK AND CONTD
DIFFICULTY ON TIMING/INTENSITY OF SW DISTURBANCES. IN THE LEAST MID
RANGE POPS STILL WARRANTED FOR NOW.

LONG TERM...
SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...A VERY ACTIVE PATTERN THIS PERIOD WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD FROM LATE
SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS SHORT WAVE TROFS EJECT OUT OF THE MAIN
TROF WEST TROF AND MOVE NORTHEAST.  THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF
MOISTURE AVAILABLE AS THE SYNOPTIC FLOW REMAINS FAVORABLE FOR GULF
MOISTURE TO STREAM NORTHEAST INTO THE MIDWEST. THE GFS AND ECMWF
HAVE GENERALLY BEEN TRENDING THIS PATTERN MORE ACTIVE WITH HEAVY
PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CURRENT THINKING IS
SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL DEVELOP BY SUNDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER SHORT
WAVE ARRIVES. HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE AS LOW LEVEL THETA E CONVERGENCE
COMBINES WITH UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT TO PRODUCE RAINFALL. FLOOD WATCHES
FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED...BUT FOR NOW HAVE
CONTINUED THE HYDROLOGICAL OUTLOOK/ESF PRODUCT AND HAZARDOUS WEATHER
OUTLOOK TO OUTLINE HAZARDS.

&&

.IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IN...NONE.
MI...NONE.
OH...NONE.
LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 2 AM EDT SATURDAY FOR LMZ043-046.

&&

SHORT TERM...T
LONG TERM...SKIPPER
AVIATION...JC

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 22, 9:20 PM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1020 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2011

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-240230-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-
PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-
MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN-
CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-
HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...
KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...
WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW...
WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...
MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...
NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...
BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...
BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...
STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...
ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...
PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
1020 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2011 /920 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME TO AN END LATE TONIGHT. SOME OF THE
STORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY PRODUCE
SOME FLOODING ALONG WITH SOME HAIL.

FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT ALONG PORTIONS OF THE
TIFFIN AND WABASH RIVERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUES SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR STORMS APPEARS TO BE MONDAY THROUGH
TUESDAY...WITH TUESDAY STORMS POSSIBLY STRONG TO SEVERE. THERE IS A
HIGH RISK OF FLOODING NEXT WEEK DUE TO ALREADY SATURATED SOILS AND
SEVERAL PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED BUT SPOTTER REPORTS WILL
BE APPRECIATED TONIGHT.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-240230-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
1020 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL PERSIST THROUGH TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES CONTINUES SUNDAY NIGHT
THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ARE LIKELY AGAIN ON TUESDAY.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 11:46 PM EST, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1246 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1230 AM     HAIL             PENNVILLE               40.49N  85.15W
04/23/2011  M1.75 INCH       JAY                IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER IWX1100681

Special weather statement, Apr 22, 11:49 PM EST, 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1249 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

MIZ077>079-230515-
BERRIEN MI-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-
1249 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

AT 1240 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF BUCHANAN...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NILES...
  DOWAGIAC...
  CASSOPOLIS...
  EAU CLAIRE...
  SUMNERVILLE...POKAGON AND INDIAN LAKE...
  DAILEY...

LAT...LON 4194 8569 4179 8646 4197 8653 4208 8607
      4208 8574
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 253DEG 46KT 4191 8637

Local storm report, Apr 23, 12:06 AM EST, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
106 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0103 AM     HAIL             MARION                  40.56N  85.66W
04/23/2011  E0.75 INCH       GRANT              IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER IWX1100682

NDM

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 12:12 AM EST, 13 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
112 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

INZ018-OHZ004-015-230545-
ALLEN IN-DEFIANCE OH-PAULDING OH-
112 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

AT 103 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN HALF INCH HAIL...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  FORT WAYNE
  HICKSVILLE...
  WOODBURN AND GRABILL...
  ANTWERP...
  GEORGETOWN...

LAT...LON 4094 8516 4110 8527 4129 8483 4128 8481
      4130 8480 4139 8458 4119 8444
TIME...MOT...LOC 0511Z 243DEG 47KT 4106 8511

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 12:16 AM EST, 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
116 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

INZ025>027-032-033-OHZ024-230545-
ADAMS IN-BLACKFORD IN-GRANT IN-HUNTINGTON IN-VAN WERT OH-WELLS IN-
116 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

AT 107 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR VAN BUREN...OR 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF GAS
CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BLUFFTON...
  DECATUR AND MONROE...
  WELLSBURG...TRAVISVILLE AND PONETO...
  VERA CRUZ...LINN GROVE AND NORTH OAKS...
  CRAIGVILLE...CURRYVILLE AND MAGLEY...

STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES.

SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 4065 8553 4094 8485 4094 8480 4095 8480
      4097 8477 4076 8464 4072 8477 4072 8479
      4071 8480 4059 8516 4059 8519 4057 8520
      4049 8543
TIME...MOT...LOC 0516Z 243DEG 54KT 4061 8538

Local storm report, Apr 23, 12:22 AM EST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
122 AM EDT SAT APR 23 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0111 AM     HAIL             FORT WAYNE              41.08N  85.13W
04/23/2011  E0.50 INCH       ALLEN              IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER IWX1100683

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:26 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Allen

When: April 23, 12:25 AM EST to 12:26 AM EST
Where: Allen County, 0.87 mi NW of Lima
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 40.760, -84.110

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

Every storm in Ohio in 2011 Every state in 2011 This day in weather history Warnings in Ohio, April 2011

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: 302316.