Name: Hail in Arkansas, May 9, 2002
Start: 2002-05-09T23:10
End: 2002-05-09T23:10
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 9, 10:20 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 10:20 PM CST, 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1120 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

QUICK UPDATE TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF AREA...
ALONG AND NORTH OF A COLD FRONT. HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAVE BEEN
REPORTED IN STORMS...WHICH DEVELOPED RAPIDLY AS EASTWARD MOVING JET
STREAK TRAVERSED ACROSS TX.

VII

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 9:25 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1025 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0955 PM    TYLER                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          TROOP HWY AT EAST SOUTHEAST LOOP                                        SOUTHEAST LOOP
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT                                   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0955 PM    TYLER                     TX   .88 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          64 EAST AT THE LOOP
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT                                        ENFORCEMENT

1005 PM    8 S TYLER                 TX   .88 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

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Local storm report, May 9, 11:10 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1210 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1050 PM    3 W GLADEWATER            TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   GREGG                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1058 PM    UNION GROVE               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   UPSHUR                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1140 PM    10 SE TEXARKANA           AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   MILLER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1140 PM    TEXARKANA                 AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   MILLER                         6 E HWY 82 REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1155 PM    TEXARKANA                 AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   MILLER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1155 PM    BODCAW                    AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   NEVADA                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:10 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Howard

When: May 9, 11:10 PM CST
Where: Howard County, Saratoga
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 33.767, -93.917

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

More

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: 5288350.