Hail in Arkansas, May 26, 2002

Name: Hail in Arkansas, May 26, 2002
Start: 2002-05-26T07:00
End: 2002-05-26T07:00
Location: Arkansas

May 26, 2002 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 May 26, 1:58 AM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:58 AM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
258 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDS FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS NORTHERN
ARKANSAS WHILE A SURFACE BASED TROUGH NEARLY PARALLEL TO COLD FRONT
STRETCHES ACROSS SOUTHERN SECTIONS. THESE TWO BOUNDARIES CONTINUE TO
FOCUS DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS.
THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY AND SUBSIDE TONIGHT.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CAN BE EXPECTED TOMORROW AND
TOMORROW NIGHT.

FCSTID = 38
HRO   79  61  80  61 /  20  10  20  20
LIT   84  63  86  65 /  30  10  20  20
HOT   84  63  86  65 /  30  10  20  20
PBF   85  65  87  67 /  30  10  20  20

.LZK...
AR...NONE.

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:59 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Monroe

When: May 26, 7:00 AM CST
Where: Monroe County, Brinkley
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.883, -91.183

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5295885.