Hail, Stone
- When
- April 30, 8:34 AM CST
- Where
- Stone County, 4 mi W of Mountain View
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.867, -92.183
Hail in Arkansas, April 30, 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 30, 8:32 AM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 8:32 AM CST, 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 932 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 A COMPLEX SYSTEM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP. FCSTID = 38 .LZK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 4:00 AM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301830- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF ARKANSAS TODAY. A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE FRONT LIFTS NORTHWARD TODAY...THESE STORMS ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AND SPREAD ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS. SOME STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED OVER MUCH OF THE STATE LATER TODAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:34 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 30, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, April 30, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, April 30, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, April 30, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 30, 2002
- Flood in Puerto Rico, April 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, April 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: 5291965.