Name: Hail in Arkansas, April 30, 2002
Start: 2002-04-30T01:04
End: 2002-04-30T05:45
Location: Arkansas

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 29, 8:35 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 8:35 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
935 PM CDT MON APR 29 2002

WARM FRONT HAS REMAINED DRAPED ACROSS RED RIVER VALLEY MOST OF THE
DAY...WITH LARGE SUPERCELLS FORMING IN THE WARM SECTOR OF NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING.  FTW HODOGRAPH SUPPORTS SPLITTING STORM
EVOLUTIONS AND THIS HAS BEEN EVIDENT ON AREA RADARS.  MEAN WIND FLOW
IS WESTERLY WITH ONLY THE LEFT SPLIT STORMS HAVING THE GREATEST
CHANCE OF ENTERING THE AREA LATE THIS EVENING.  AS THEY
APPROACH...THEY WILL ENCOUNTER WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND BEGIN TO
WEAKEN AS SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY SOURCE IS LOST.  ABSENCE OF LOW
LEVEL JET DURING THIS TIME FRAME WILL ALSO INHIBIT STORM SURVIVAL.

LOW LEVEL JET WILL BEGIN TO STRENGTHEN OVERNIGHT AND PROVIDE SOURCE
FOR ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP.  INITIATION AREA IS
SOMEWHAT QUESTIONABLE...HOWEVER AREAS NEAR WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY
WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE THE INITIAL STRONGEST THETA-E
ADVECTION...WITH PRECIP DEVELOPING FURTHER NORTHWARD TOWARD SUNRISE
AS NOSE OF LOW LEVEL JET PUSHES NORTHWARD.  BELIEVE FAR NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS WILL BE LEAST LIKELY TO RECEIVE RAINFALL DURING THE
OVERNIGHT PERIOD AND HAVE LOWERED POPS.  WILL KEEP OTHER POPS
SIMILIAR TO GOING FORECAST...WITH MINOR TWEAKS MADE TO FORECAST LOWS.

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FCSTID = 07

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 30, 12:19 AM CST, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
119 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1220 AM    STIGLER                   OK   .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02   HASKELL                        REPORTED BY POLICE
                                          DEPARTMENT

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Sebastian

When: April 30, 1:04 AM CST
Where: Sebastian County, 4 mi SW of Hartford
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.983, -94.433

Hail, Madison

When: April 30, 5:45 AM CST
Where: Madison County, Marble
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.133, -93.583

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: 5289866, 5289867.