Hail, Duval
- When
- April 2, 9:20 PM EST
- Where
- Duval County, 4 mi W of Oceanway
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.467, -81.700
4 miles soouth Jacksonville International Airport.
Hail in Florida, April 2, 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 2, 7:48 PM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 7:48 PM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 748 PM EST TUE APR 02 2002 CURRENTLY...THE COMBO OF AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE WITH THE MERGE OF THE E/W COAST SB FLOW SPAWNED SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER OUR FL FORECAST AREA (FA). LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A CELL THAT MOVED OVER MACCLENNY IN BAKER COUNTY...AND AT LEAST DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH NUMEROUS OTHER CELLS OVER PUTNAM AND NASSAU COUNTIES. FREQUENT CLOUD TO CLOUD LIGHTNING IS NOW ASSOCIATED WITH CELLS OVER CLAY COUNTY. FORECAST...SEVERAL RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXIST OVER THE FA. EVEN THOUGH DAYTIME HEATING HAS BEEN LOST AND VILS HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DROPPED...CONVERGING BOUNDARIES AND DEW-POINTS NEAR 70 DEGREES OVER NE FL AND SE GA MAY SQUEEZE MORE PRECIPITATION OUT OF THE AIRMASS THIS EVENING...ENDING BY MIDNIGHT. ZONES HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR THE PRECIP AND POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL CONVECTION. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. PUBLIC...BROYLES
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 2 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:19 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
- Strong Wind in Oklahoma, April 2, 2002
- Strong Wind in Texas, April 2, 2002
- High Wind in Kansas, April 2, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, April 2, 2002
- Strong Wind in Hawaii, April 2, 2002
- Dense Fog in California, April 2, 2002
- Flood in Indiana, April 2 to 5, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, April 2, 2002
- Wildfire in New Jersey, April 2 to 3, 2002
- Hail in Florida, April 2, 2002
- Hail in Florida, April 2, 2002
- Hail in Florida, April 2, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, April 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: 5290400.