Hail, Bradley
- When
- May 3, 1:25 AM CST
- Where
- Bradley County, Warren
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.617, -92.067
Hail in Arkansas, May 3, 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 2, 7:15 PM CST, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 7:15 PM CST, 6 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 815 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 HAVE SENT OUT A QUICK UPDATE TO REMOVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 213 WHICH EXPIRED AT 800 PM. LOWERED POPS IN CENTRAL/EAST GROUP TO SLIGHT CHANCE. FOR NOW...WILL LEAVE REMAINDER OF FORECAST UNCHANGED AS EVERYTHING LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK. HAVE ALSO REMOVED SEVERE WORDING...AS THE THREAT FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST. HAVE ISSUED SPS TO ACCOUNT FOR POSSIBLE STRONG STORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. FCSTID = 57 .LZK...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 2, 7:40 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
840 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM 7 S HAMPTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 CALHOUN REPORTED BY
PUBLIC
0810 PM KELSO AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 DESHA REPORTED BY
PUBLIC
0820 PM NEAR JOHNSVILLE AR WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02 BRADLEY TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
57Local storm report, May 2, 7:45 PM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
845 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM 7 S HAMPTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 CALHOUN REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0810 PM KELSO AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 DESHA REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0820 PM NEAR JOHNSVILLE AR WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02 BRADLEY TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
57Local storm report, May 2, 11:07 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
1207 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1140 PM ROWELL AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 CLEVELAND REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1152 PM 5 S STAR CITY AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 LINCOLN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
57The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:24 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 Flood and Hail in Texas, May 3, 2002
- High Wind in Massachusetts, May 3, 2002
- High Wind in New York, May 3, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, May 3 to 4, 2002
- High Wind in Vermont, May 3, 2002
- Strong Wind in Maine, May 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 3 to 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 3, 2002
- Strong Wind in New Hampshire, May 3, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 3, 2002
- High Wind in South Dakota, May 3, 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: 5297004.