Hail, Scott
- When
- July 23, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County, Waldron
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.900, -94.083
Hail in Arkansas, July 23, 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 Jul 23, 9:50 AM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 9:50 AM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1050 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002 CURRENT FORECAST PRETTY MUCH ON TRACK. WEAK SURFACE TROF HAS PASSED THROUGH MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA AS OF LATE MORNING WITH COLD FRONT OVER THE NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS. SOME STABILIZATION OCCURRING BEHIND TROF...SO NOT MUCH SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE FORECAST AREA AT MID MORNING. HOWEVER...AS AFTERNOON HEATING INTENSIFIES...THINK THAT ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS. (22) .LZK...NONE.
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:29 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
- Rip Current in Florida, July 23, 2002
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 23, 2002
- Heat in California, July 23, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 23, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maine, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alaska, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 23, 2002
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 23, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 23, 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: 5311601.