Hail, Pinal
- When
- August 29, 4:55 AM MST to 5:05 AM MST
- Where
- Pinal County, Oracle
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 32.617, -110.767
Hail in Arizona, August 29, 2002
1 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
- 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 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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 2:45 AM MST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 2:45 AM MST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-291745- SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 245 AM MST THU AUG 29 2002 .SYNOPSIS... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE OVER THE WESTERN STATES...MAINLY NORTH OF ARIZONA INTO THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND. MONSOON MOISTURE OVER THE EASTERN ARIZONA WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE FOR MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO REBUILD OVER THE WESTERN STATES BY NEXT TUESDAY...PROVIDING WARMER AFTERNOONS. .DISCUSSION... A LARGE TROF CONTINUED TO CIRCULATE OVER THE WESTERN STATES... CENTERED JUST SOUTHWEST OF BOISE ID AT 08Z. A RATHER SHARP EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE/VORT MAX WAS SEEN ROTATING AROUND THE BASE OF TROF AND INTO WESTERN AZ...PROVIDING DYNAMICS FOR A CONTINUATION OF THUNDER STORMS IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST AZ AT THE MOMENT (08Z). SECONDARY CIRCULATIONS OR AGEO-STROPHIC FLOW REALLY SURGED THE MONSOON MOISTURE NORTH FROM MEXICO ON WEDNESDAY...AND REGIONAL SOUNDINGS AND PLOT DATA SHOWED A DEEP PLUME OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES ALONG AN AXIS FROM JUST NORTH OF PHOENIX TO TUCSON. FORECASTS FOR PARTS OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL DESERTS WILL BE TRICKY TODAY...MAINLY BECAUSE WE ARE NOT SURE WHERE THE ENTRANCE REGION OF THE JET MAX WILL BE POSITIONED...AS THE SHORTWAVE (CURRENTLY MOVING INTO WESTERN AZ) EXITS THE STATE INTO SOUTHWEST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS SEEM TO INDICATE THE JET MAX ENTRANCE REGION WILL BE LOCATED OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST AZ... HOWEVER IT COULD EXTEND WEST INTO PARTS OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL DESERTS. THEREFORE WITH ABUNDANT MONSOON MOISTURE...WE WILL INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON THE SOUTH CENTRAL DESERTS... WITH A BETTER CHANCE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF ZONE 24 INTO THE EVENING HOURS. FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE LAMINAR FROM THE SOUTHWEST FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND WITH NO SHORTWAVE ACTIVITY. MOISTURE VALUES THIN A LITTLE OVER THE WEEKEND...HOWEVER THERE ARE SOME HINTS OF AN UPPER LEVEL DEFORMATION ZONE DEVELOPING OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST AZ SATURDAY AFTERNOON (FOR POSSIBLE ENHANCED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY). THEREFORE WE WILL CONTINUE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER OUR MOUNTAINOUS ZONE 24 FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND. THE AIRMASS COULD DRY OUT SOMEWHAT NEXT WEEK...HOWEVER WE WILL NOT REMOVE THUNDERSTORM THREATS OVER ZONE 24. VASQUEZ .PSR...NONE.
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:53 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
- Wildfire in California, August 29 to 30, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, August 29, 2002
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 29, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 29, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 29 to 31, 2002
- Flash Flooding in South Carolina, August 29, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Montana, August 29, 2002
- Waterspouts in Gulf of Mexico, August 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding in New York, August 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding in South Carolina, August 29, 2002
- Funnel Clouds in Colorado, August 29, 2002
More
Every storm in Arizona in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, August 2002
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: 5312731.