Hail, Phillips
- When
- May 2, 4:45 PM CST to 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County, Marvell
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.550, -90.900
Hail in Arkansas, May 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
- $10
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 2:43 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:43 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 343 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 SFC ANALYSIS THIS AFTERNOON PLACED THE CDFNT FROM MID TN SWWD THRU NRN MS INTO SW AR WITH AN AREA OF LO PRES INVOF SHV. TEMPS WERE PRIMARILY IN THE 50S NORTH OF THE BNDRY WERE AND LWR 80S ACROSS SE SXNS OF THE FA. LATEST IR SAT LOOP WITH LIGHTNING PLOT INDICATED THE MAIN AREA OF TSTM ACTIVITY WAS ACROSS WRN/MID TN UP INTO ERN KY. LOCAL 88D RADAR LOOP WAS SHOWING SOME SCATTERED TSTMS DEVELOPING OVR SRN SXNS OF WRN TN AND NRN MS. THE LATEST SVR TSTMS WATCH INCLUDED ALL OF NRN MS AND THE SRN COUNTIES OF WRN TN. AS THE CDFNT SAGS SWD TONITE IT WILL BECOME STATIONARY SOUTH OF THE FA AND ACT AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR TSTMS ACTIVITY TONITE INTO TMRW. AS THE NEXT 5H SW APPROACHES FROM THE SW IN SWLY FLOW ALOFT... THE NEXT GOOD CHC FOR PRECIP WILL COME FRI NITE TO THE FA. A SFC WAVE WILL MOVE ALONG THE FNTL BNDRY FRI NITE WITH WEAK HI PRES BUILDING IN ON SAT. THE STALLED BNDRY TO THE SOUTH WILL RETURN AS A WMFNT SUN NITE BRINGING ANOTHER CHC FOR PRECIP. MON THRU WED SHUD BE DRY IN BETWEEN SYSTEMS WITH ANOTHER CHC FOR PRECIP THU AS ANOTHER FNT APPROACHES FROM THE NW. WILL TAKE A BLEND OF FWC/MAV TEMPS THIS FCST PD. .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:42 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 Flooding and Flood in West Virginia, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Virginia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Rip Currents in Florida, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornado in Maryland, May 2, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 2, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, May 2, 2002
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 2, 2002
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, May 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: 5300163.