Arkansas, 2002Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 8 to 9, 2002
May 8 to 9, 2002 · NWS TSA · 12 events in 7 counties and zones
9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 12
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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 8, 8:15 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 8:15 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA
915 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002
RUNNING A BIT BEHIND WITH ONGOING WEATHER AND GFE PROBLEMS.
SE KS CONVECTION HAS RACED OUT AHEAD OF COLD FRONT...WITH
WELL-DEFINED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PUSHING INTO OUR FAR NRN COUNTIES AT
THIS TIME. ADDITIONAL SEVERE CONVECTION JUST TO THE W OF OUR NWRN
CWA CONTINUES ALONG COLD FRONT. 00Z OUN SOUNDING WAS QUITE
IMPRESSIVE WITH NEARLY 4000 J/KG OF CAPE AND JUST A SLIVER OF A CAP
LEFT.
EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO GRADUALLY BECOME MORE LINEAR WITH TIME...AND
EVENTUALLY DEVELOP INTO A MCS OVERNIGHT. PROGGD CORFIDI VECTORS
SUGGEST MCS WILL PEEL ESE INTO FAR NE OK AND EVENTUALLY NW AR LATER
TONIGHT.
WILL UPDATE TO TWEAK POPS SOME...AND ADJUST TIMING OF CONVECTION.
UPDATE SHOULD BE OUT BETWEEN 930 AND 945 PM.
.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.
Thunderstorm Wind, Benton
- When
- May 8, 10:40 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County, Pea Ridge
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 36.450, -94.117
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down power lines.
Thunderstorm Wind, Carroll
- When
- May 8, 10:59 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County, Beaver
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.467, -93.767
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
Thunderstorm Wind, Benton
- When
- May 8, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County, Bentonville
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 36.367, -94.217
Thunderstorm Wind, Benton
- When
- May 8, 11:12 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County, Rogers
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.333, -94.117
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles an hour blew down a tree.
Thunderstorm Wind, Washington
- When
- May 8, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Washington County, Fayetteville
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.067, -94.167
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm Wind, Madison
- When
- May 8, 11:56 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County, Kingston
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.050, -93.517
Thunderstorm Wind, Benton
- When
- May 9, 1:55 AM CST
- Where
- Benton County, 2 mi W of Cave Spgs
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.267, -94.267
Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford
- When
- May 9, 2:52 AM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, Van Buren
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.433, -94.350
Hail, Sebastian
- When
- May 9, 3:00 AM CST
- Where
- Sebastian County, Ft Smith
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.383, -94.417
Thunderstorm Wind, Sebastian
- When
- May 9, 3:05 AM CST
- Where
- Sebastian County, 10 mi S of Ft Smith
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.233, -94.417
Hail, Sebastian
- When
- May 9, 3:07 AM CST
- Where
- Sebastian County, Greenwood
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.217, -94.267
Hail, Franklin
- When
- May 9, 3:22 AM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, Charleston
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.300, -94.033
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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.
- Tornado in Ohio, May 8, 20023 injured · $3.5 million · F2 · 1 event
- Flooding in Illinois, May 8 to 31, 2002$1.5 million · 3 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 8, 2002$58,000 · F0 · 66 events
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 8, 2002$604,000 · 65 kt wind · 12 events
- Flooding in Kansas, May 8 to 9, 2002$715,000 · 3 events
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 8, 2002$300,000 · 5 events
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 9, 2002$16,000 · F0 · 66 events
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 8, 2002$265,000 · 7 events
- Hail in Texas, May 8, 20021 injured · $110,000 · 2.75 in hail · 14 events
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 8, 2002$67,000 · F1 · 4 events
- Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 31, 2002$195,000 · 5 events
- Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 10, 2002$225,000 · 2 events
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: 5294944, 5294943, 5294945, 5294946, 5294947, 5295022, 5295023, 5295024, 5295025, 5295027, 5295026, 5295028.