Hail, Mississippi
- When
- July 2, 6:15 PM CST to 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Mississippi County, Blytheville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.917, -89.917
Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 2, 2002
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 8:30 AM CST, 9 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 8:30 AM CST, 9 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 930 AM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002 ABUNDANT SUNSHINE AND LIGHT WINDS ARE ALLOWING A QUICK WARMUP THIS MORNING. SURFACE MOISTURE IS STILL AROUND...SO HEATING SHOULD PROVIDE AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. MANY OF THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHWEST ONCE THEY FORM. .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Mississippi
- When
- July 2, 6:15 PM CST to 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Mississippi County, Blytheville
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.917, -89.917
Some trees were knocked down.
Hail, Mississippi
- When
- July 2, 6:40 PM CST to 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Mississippi County, Gosnell
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.967, -89.967
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Maryland, July 2 to 4, 2002
- Heat in Connecticut, July 2 to 4, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 2, 2002
- Flood in Texas, July 2 to 3, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, July 2, 2002
- Flood in Texas, July 2 to 6, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 2, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 2, 2002
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 2, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 2, 2002
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, July 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: 5311670, 5311671, 5311669.