Name: Hail in Arizona, April 7, 2002
Start: 2002-04-07T18:45
End: 2002-04-07T18:45
Location: Arizona

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 FGZ wrote it up.

An Apache County Sheriff's deputy reported golf ball (1.75 inch) sized hail on Highway 61 three miles southwest of Concho.

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 Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 2:45 PM MST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 2:45 PM MST, 4 hours before

NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
245 PM MST SUN APR 07 2002

.SYNOPSIS...THE STORM SYSTEM THAT BROUGHT RAIN AND SNOW TO ARIZONA
YESTERDAY HAS MOVED INTO NEW MEXICO. FOR TONIGHT...EXPECT A FEW
EARLY EVENING SHOWERS FOLLOWED BY CLEARING SKIES OVERNIGHT. ALONG
THE EASTERN BORDER...SHOWERS WILL LAST LONGER INTO THE EVENING
BEFORE DIMINISHING. ON MONDAY...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING PARTLY
CLOUDY SKIES AND A WARMING TREND TO THE NORTHLAND. FOR THE REMAINDER
OF THE WEEK...A SERIES OF WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCES WILL BRING
MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO NORTHERN ARIZONA ON
WEDNESDAY AND AGAIN OVER THE WEEKEND.

.DISCUSSION...COLD CORE UPPER LOW WAS CENTERED OVER NEW MEXICO THIS
AFTERNOON AND MOVING EAST. SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLEAR OVER THE WESTERN
HALF OF THE STATE THIS MORNING BUT CUMULUS BUILDUPS AND SHOWERS HAVE
OCCURRED OVER MOST OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND EVEN SOME OF THE LOWER
DESERTS THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT MOST OF THIS TO DIMINISH QUICKLY AFTER
SUNSET AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER STABILIZES. FARTHER EAST...SKIES ARE
MOSTLY CLOUDY AND SHOWERS SHOULD CONTINUE LATER INTO THE EVENING
BEFORE DIMINISHING. FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY...A WEAK RIDGE TRANSITS
THE AREA BRINGING SOME WARMING AND PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. NEXT S/WV
TROUGH APPROACHES THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND THERE IS A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS OVER MOST OF THE CWFA...WITH CHANCES DIMINISHING TO THE
SOUTH.

.EXTENDED...MRF AND ECMWF SHOW SIMILAR PATTERNS FOR THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY AND BRING PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES TO
THE REGION. MODEL SOLUTIONS BEGIN TO DIVERGE FOR THE WEEKEND WITH
THE ECMWF SOLUTION SHOWING A MUCH COLDER...DEEPER...AND FASTER
TROUGH THAN THE MRF. WILL GO WITH A PARTLY CLOUDY FORECAST FOR THE
FIRST HALF OF THE EXTENDED...AND MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS FOR THE SECOND HALF. ENOUGH DIFFERENCES EXIST BETWEEN THE
MODELS THAT THE TIMING AND AMPLITUDE OF THE FEATURES IS DIFFICULT TO
ASSESS. DB

.FGZ...NONE.

.CODED TEMPERATURES/POPS FOR SELECTED CITIES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA

CITY             TEMPERATURES LO/HI           PROBABILITY OF PRECIP
                 TON MON   TUE     WED        TON MON   TUE     WED
FLAGSTAFF        031/058 030/060 032/055      020 000 000 000 000 040
WINSLOW          040/070 040/072 041/071      020 000 000 000 000 020
PRESCOTT         038/068 042/070 042/066      000 000 000 000 000 030
PAGE             048/069 050/072 050/068      020 000 000 000 000 040
WINDOW ROCK      026/060 031/062 032/062      030 000 000 000 000 040
CANYON DE CHELLY 036/064 041/066 042/066      020 000 000 000 000 040
COTTONWOOD       045/076 049/078 049/074      000 000 000 000 000 030
GRAND CANYON     033/062 032/064 034/059      020 000 000 000 000 030
GREER            030/058 029/060 031/055      030 000 000 000 000 030
HEBER            032/066 031/068 033/063      030 000 000 000 000 020
JACOB LAKE       031/053 030/055 032/050      020 000 000 000 000 030
NAVAJO N.M.      030/058 035/060 036/060      020 000 000 000 000 040
PAYSON           038/071 042/073 042/069      000 000 000 000 000 030
SEDONA           044/075 048/077 048/073      000 000 000 000 000 030
SELIGMAN         030/070 034/072 034/068      000 000 000 000 000 020
SHOW LOW         039/068 038/070 040/065      030 000 000 000 000 030
ST. JOHNS        037/068 037/070 038/069      030 000 000 000 000 020
WUPATKI N.M.     045/070 045/072 046/071      020 000 000 000 000 020

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 147 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:44 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Apache

When: April 7, 6:45 PM MST
Where: Apache County, Concho
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.467, -109.600

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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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: 5291356.