Hail, Jeff Davis
- When
- April 3, 10:30 PM EST
- Where
- Jeff Davis County, 2 mi NW of Hazelhurst
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.883, -82.617
Hail in Georgia, April 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 3, 8:05 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 8:05 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 805 PM EST WED APR 03 2000 FOR THE EVENING UPDATE...WSR-88D SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND OUT AHEAD OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY...MOVING NE. OTHER SHOWERS WERE JUST WEST OF THE SUWANNEE VALLEY...BUT WERE TRAVERSING THE SAME AREA AND NOT MAKING MUCH PROGRESS TO THE EAST. EXPECT SOME GRADUAL DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WITH HEATING OF THE DAY LONG OVER. WITH THIS IN MIND...WILL LOWER POPS IN THE FLORIDA CWA (FROM LIKELY TO CHANCE) AND KEEP PREVIOUS 40 PCT POPS IN GA. MARINE...CURRENT OBS INDICATE WINDS MOSTLY SW NEAR 10 KNOTS OFFSHORE. WILL CONTINUE PREVIOUS FORECAST OF VEERING WINDS TO WEST OVERNITE AT 10 TO 15 KNOTS OUT AHEAD OF APPROACHING FRONT. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. PETERSON/SANDRIK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 9:31 PM EST, 59 minutes before
GAZ132-133-040400- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 931 PM EST WED APR 3 2002 A VERY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IS APPROACHING THE COFFEE COUNTY AND JEFF DAVIS COUNTY AREAS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED IN COFFEE AND JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. SANDRIK
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 3, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Delaware, April 3, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, April 3, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, April 3, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, April 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, April 3, 2002
- Hail in Florida, April 3, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 3, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, April 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, April 3, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, April 3, 2002
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, 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: 5290402.