Storm near Palm Beach Gardens
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- Largest hail
- 1.25 inhalf dollar
- Strongest wind
- —no reading
- Tornadoes
- 0none reported
- Reports
- 1within 8 mi
1 report
- 1.25 in hail (half dollar)2.7 mi ENE of central Palm Beach Gardens2.8 mi SW of Tequesta · Palm Beach County · Social Media
A social media video showed up to 1.25-inch diameter (half-dollar size) hail after a severe thunderstorm passed through the area. Time estimated via radar.
What the National Weather Service wrote
As an upper-level trough moved over the Florida Peninsula, abundant low-level moisture and diurnal heating led to plenty of instability in the atmosphere on May 28th. Numerous showers and thunderstorms formed in the afternoon and evening across South Florida with the primary hazard of large hail.