Arkansas, 2002

Hail in Arkansas, May 28, 2002

May 28, 2002 · NWS SHV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
240 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002

UPPER LOW OVER NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS
OKLAHOMA THE NEXT 24 HOURS AND THEN SOUTH TO NEAR BEAUMONT TX BY
THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA SHOULD
CONTINUE TO BE QUITE MOIST AND UNCAPPED. CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER
WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES MAINLY IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 80S WITH
SCATTERED TO POSSIBLY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AMOUNT AND AREAL COVERAGE WILL DEPEND ON
THE AMOUNT OF HEATING THAT TAKES PLACE. SHV SOUNDING IS A LITTLE
MORE STABLE TODAY THAN YESTERDAYS AND TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON
ARE BEING HELD DOWN BY CLOUD COVER LEFT OVER FROM OVERNIGHT
CONVECTION. CONVECTION GOT A LATE START YESTERDAY AND TODAY IT HAS
ONLY DEVELOPED OVER THE EAST TEXAS LAKES INTO WEST CENTRAL
LOUISIANA.

LOW LEVEL JET WILL HELP KEEP A CHANCE FOR NOCTURNAL THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE FORECAST THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD
ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST WEDNESDAY AND PUSHES UPPER LOW INTO THE
NORTHEAST GULF FRIDAY. IT THEN BECOMES ABSORBED INTO THE UPPER LEVEL
TROUGH THAT DEVELOPS ALONG THE EAST COAST AT THE END OF THE WEEK.
SHORTWAVE MOVING INTO WEST COAST THIS WEEKEND GETS PUSHED NORTHEAST
INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL STATES LEAVING THE FORECAST AREA WARM AND
DRY. SKIES SHOULD BE MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH THURSDAY BECOMING PARTLY
CLOUDY FROM WEST TO EAST FRIDAY. SOME AREAS WILL GET HEAVY RAINFALL
DUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS BUT TOO DIFFICULT TOO PINPOINT YET
WHERE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL OCCUR.  IF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS RECEIVES
HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED BY WEDNESDAY
MORNING.

PRELIMS...
SHV 68/84/68/84 3645
MLU 68/85/68/84 3546
TXK 67/83/66/83 5645
TYR 68/82/67/83 4645
LFK 68/84/66/85 4656

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.SHV...NONE.

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Sevier

When
May 28, 5:20 PM CST
Where
Sevier County, 2 mi E of Gillham
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
34.167, -94.283

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.

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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: 5288564.