Hail, Lee
- When
- May 7, 8:15 PM CST to 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County, Verona
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -88.700
Hail in Mississippi, May 7, 1998
4 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
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Itawamba
- When
- May 7, 8:30 PM CST to 8:35 PM CST
- Where
- Itawamba County, Fulton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $100
- Coordinates
- 34.270, -88.420
Hail, Tallahatchie
- When
- May 7, 8:50 PM CST to 8:55 PM CST
- Where
- Tallahatchie County, Charleston
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -90.050
Hail, Yalobusha
- When
- May 7, 9:00 PM CST to 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Yalobusha County, Oakland to Coffeeville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Coordinates
- 34.050, -89.920
Golfball size hail fell in Oakland while ping pong ball size hail fell in Coffeeville.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, May 7 to 8, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, May 7, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 7, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Georgia, May 7 to 8, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Virginia, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in South Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
More
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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: 5648382, 5648383, 5648384, 5648385.