Hail, Lake
- When
- October 17, 10:26 PM EST
- Where
- Lake County, 1.17 mi S of Painesville Csmnt Ar
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 41.713, -81.221
Penny-size hail reported about two-miles ESE of Painesville.
Hail in Ohio, October 17, 2022
A lake-aggregate surface trough resided over the Great Lakes and vicinity during the evening of the 17th through wee hours of the 18th. This trough resulted from the expansion of relatively-warm lake-modified air as a cold air mass crossed the relatively-warm lakes and was warmed and moistened from beneath.
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 CLE wrote it up.
A lake-aggregate surface trough resided over the Great Lakes and vicinity during the evening of the 17th through wee hours of the 18th. This trough resulted from the expansion of relatively-warm lake-modified air as a cold air mass crossed the relatively-warm lakes and was warmed and moistened from beneath. An embedded and occluded surface low meandered over Lake Huron. During the late evening of the 17th through early morning of the 18th, a cyclonically-curved west-northwesterly mean low-level flow of cold air over and downwind of Lake Erie and appreciable lake-induced CAPE triggered multiple bands of lake-effect rain and graupel that targeted much of northeast OH and northwest PA. A stronger updraft associated with one of the heavier lake-effect showers managed to produce hail up to penny-size in the Painesville area in Lake County, OH.
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 Oct 17, 10:07 PM EST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 10:07 PM EST, 19 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Cleveland OH 424 PM EDT Mon Oct 17 2022 OHZ003-006>011-013-014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ002-003-182030- Lucas-Wood-Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Cuyahoga-Geauga- Ashtabula Inland-Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull- Wyandot-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow- Holmes-Knox-Southern Erie- 424 PM EDT Mon Oct 17 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Ohio, northeast Ohio, northwest Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. OHZ012-089-PAZ001-182030- Lake-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie- 424 PM EDT Mon Oct 17 2022 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EDT TUESDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. LEZ144-164-182030- The Islands to Vermilion OH- The Islands to Vermilion OH beyond 5 nm off shoreline to US- Canadian border- 424 PM EDT Mon Oct 17 2022 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...LOW WATER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Lake Erie. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. Low Water Advisory. There is a chance of waterspouts tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. There is a chance of waterspouts through Wednesday evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. LEZ145>149-165>169-182030- 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- Vermilion to Avon Point OH beyond 5 nm off shoreline to US- Canadian border- Avon Point to Willowick OH beyond 5 nm off shoreline to US- Canadian border-Willowick to Geneva-on-the- Lake OH beyond 5NM off shoreline to US-Canadian border-Geneva-on-the- Lake to Conneaut OH beyond 5 nm off shoreline to US-Canadian border- Conneaut OH to Ripley NY beyond 5 nm off shoreline to US- Canadian border- 424 PM EDT Mon Oct 17 2022 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Lake Erie. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. There is a chance of waterspouts tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. There is a chance of waterspouts through Wednesday evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. LEZ142-143-162-163-182030- Maumee Bay to Reno Beach OH-Reno Beach to The Islands OH- Detroit River Lt. to Maumee Bay OH to Reno Beach OH beyond 5NM offshoreline to US-Canadian border- Reno Beach to The Islands OH beyond 5NM off shoreline to US- Canadian border- 424 PM EDT Mon Oct 17 2022 ...LOW WATER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Lake Erie. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Low Water Advisory. Winds will approach gale force late this afternoon through this evening. There is a chance of waterspouts tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. There is a chance of waterspouts through Wednesday evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. LEZ061-182030- Ripley to Buffalo NY extending from 5NM off shoreline to US- Canadian border- 424 PM EDT Mon Oct 17 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Lake Erie. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Winds will approach gale force tonight. There is a chance of waterspouts tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. There is a chance of waterspouts through Wednesday evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
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</html>The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:25 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
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, October 17, 2022
- Frost and Freeze in Illinois, October 17 to 18, 2022
- Marine High Wind in Lake Superior, October 17 to 18, 2022
- Hail in Virginia, October 17, 2022
- Winter Weather in Indiana, October 17, 2022
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, October 17, 2022
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 17, 2022
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 17, 2022
- Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, October 17, 2022
- Flood in Alaska, October 17, 2022
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 17, 2022
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, October 17, 2022
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, October 2022
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1058249.