Hail, Clark
- When
- May 26, 12:35 PM CST
- Where
- Clark County, 9 mi NE of Okolona
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.100, -93.217
Hail in Arkansas, May 26, 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 May 26, 9:43 AM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:43 AM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1043 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 MOST CURRENT SFC DATA SHOWS ILL-DEFINED SFC BNDRY OVER SRN AR ATTM. DEWPOINTS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE 50S OVER NRN AR...WITH 60S COMMON IN THE CNTRL AND SRN PARTS OF THE FA. EXPECT ONGOING CONVECTION OVER WRN AR WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN FURTHER THROUGH MIDDAY. RESIDUAL SFC BNDRY/S WILL BE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN. CURRENT POP FCST FOR THIS AFTN LOOKS GOOD. WILL TWEAK TEMP AND CLOUD TRENDS AFTER 16Z OBS ARRIVE. UPDATES WILL BE OUT SHORTLY AFTER THE TOP OF THE HOUR. ..44.. .LZK...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 7:40 AM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
840 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0302 AM 3 SE WHITEHALL AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0800 AM BRINKLEY AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 MONROE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
44The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:33 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 26, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 26, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 26, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, May 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 26, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 26, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, May 26, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, May 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 26, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 26, 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: 5295891.