Hail, Pike
- When
- May 9, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, Highland
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.033, -93.767
Hail in Arkansas, May 9, 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 9, 10:35 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 10:35 PM CST, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1135 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002 QUICK UPDATE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 274 FOR SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 400 AM CDT FRIDAY. (22) .LZK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 9, 10:04 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
ARZ052>056-062-063-066>068-100600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1104 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 274 WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT FRIDAY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. LATE THURSDAY EVENING...A FRONTAL SYSTEM WAS STALLED ALONG THE SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BORDER. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS LIFTING NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF TEXAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS AND MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS LATE THURSDAY EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS PRODUCED HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZED IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS EARLIER TONIGHT. PERSONS IN MUCH OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION OF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 22
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:17 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
- Tornado in Illinois, May 9, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 9 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 9, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 9, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in Wisconsin, May 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 9 to 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 9, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 9, 2002
- Tornado in Ohio, May 9, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 9, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 9, 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: 5296008.