Hail, Howard
- When
- August 2, 4:56 PM CST
- Where
- Howard County, Dierks
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.117, -94.017
Hail in Arkansas, August 2, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 240 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2002 WEAK FRONT IN NORTHWEST AR WILL CAUSE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THESE MAY PERSIST AS THEY MOVE SOUTHWEST DURING THE EVENING HOURS...SO WILL INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTH ZONES THIS EVENING. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL LIKELY KEEP CONDITIONS DRY SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...AND ALTHOUGH WE WILL NOT COOL OFF MUCH...THIS FRONT MAY TRIGGER SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...IN THE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY TIME FRAME. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WHICH WILL CAUSE OUR HIGH TEMPERATURES TO COOL SLIGHTLY INTO THE LOWER TO MID 90S DURING THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. 03 SHV 73/98/73/97 0000 MLU 74/97/74/97 1100 TXK 77/99/77/98 2100 TYR 74/97/74/97 0000 LFK 73/96/73/96 0100 .SHV...NONE.
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:53 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
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 2, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, August 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Jersey, August 2, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 2, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, August 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 2, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 2, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 2 to 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 2, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 2, 2002
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, 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: 5311629.