Hail, Newton
- When
- March 15, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County, Western Grove
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.100, -92.950
Hail in Arkansas, March 15, 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 Mar 15, 11:17 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 11:17 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1117 AM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS FRONT RUNNING ROUGHLY ALONG A LINE FROM JUST N OF KARG...TO KRUE TO JUST N OF KDEQ. QUITE A TEMP RANGE NOTED FROM NW TO SE OVER AR ATTM...WITH 40S IN THE NW AND MID TO UPPER 70S CNTRL AND SOUTH. AFTER SOME LINGERING DATABASE PROBLEMS...WENT AHEAD AND DID SOME ZONES RECONFIGURATIONS BASED ON CURRENT FRONTAL POSITION. KEPT A CHC OF SHRA/TSRA OVER MY NWRN ZNS FOR ELEVATION CONVECTION FORMING BEHIND THE FRONT. EXPECT ADDITIONAL CONVECTION TO FORM LATER THIS AFTN IN ADVANCE OF FNT OVR CNTRL AND SERN AR. ALSO INCLUDED SVR POSSIBILITY FOR LATER THIS AFTN AND EVENING BASED ON CURRENT DAY 1 OUTLOOK. RAISED AFTN MAX TEMPS A CAT OR TWO OVER CNTRL AND SRN ZONES BASED ON CURRENT TEMP TRENDS. EXPECT SOME PARTS OF SERN AR TO REACH THE 80 DEGREE MARK THIS AFTN. UPDATED ZNS ALREADY SENT. ..44.. .LZK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-160000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 100 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL BUT EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTH WINDS HAVE BROUGHT AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS TO THE NATURAL STATE. A STRONG...SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO RISE WELL INTO THE 70S AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...THE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS STRONG JET STREAM WINDS REACH THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THE STORMS WILL MOVE QUICKLY NORTHEAST...AND ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT MOST OF ARKANSAS BY MIDNIGHT. DUE TO THE INSTABILITY OF THE AIRMASS...AND COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT...THE PRIMARY THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL. THERE MAY ALSO BE A THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS IF THE STORMS ARE ABLE TO ORGANIZE INTO A LINE...BUT THIS IS MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR AFTER THE STORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF ARKANSAS. THERE IS NOT MUCH CHANGE IN WIND DIRECTION WITH HEIGHT...SO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES IS MINIMAL. HOWEVER...ONE OR TWO TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. 57
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-160000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 100 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL BUT EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTH WINDS HAVE BROUGHT AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS TO THE NATURAL STATE. A STRONG...SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO RISE WELL INTO THE 70S AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...THE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS STRONG JET STREAM WINDS REACH THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THE STORMS WILL MOVE QUICKLY NORTHEAST...AND ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT MOST OF ARKANSAS BY MIDNIGHT. DUE TO THE INSTABILITY OF THE AIRMASS...AND COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT...THE PRIMARY THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL. THERE MAY ALSO BE A THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS IF THE STORMS ARE ABLE TO ORGANIZE INTO A LINE...BUT THIS IS MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR AFTER THE STORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF ARKANSAS. THERE IS NOT MUCH CHANGE IN WIND DIRECTION WITH HEIGHT...SO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES IS MINIMAL. HOWEVER...ONE OR TWO TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. 57
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 15, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, March 15 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 15, 2002
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 15, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, March 15, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, March 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: 5286944.