Hail, Worth
- When
- April 3, 8:55 PM EST
- Where
- Worth County, 13 mi SE of Sylvester
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 31.400, -83.700
Quarter size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
Hail in Georgia, April 3, 2002
2 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
- 2
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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 3, 8:30 PM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 8:30 PM EST, 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 830 PM EST WED APR 3 2002 UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT AND INCREASING INSTABILITY WITH STEEPENING LAPSE RATES CONTINUE TO FUEL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE CWA THIS EVENING...WITH MANY REPORTS ALREADY OF QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL. THE SFC COLD FRONT IS ALSO MAKING PROGRESS TO THE SE....AND SHOULD BE GRADUALLY PUTTING AND END TO THE STORMS FROM NW TO SE DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...WINDS ARE A BIT MORE OUT OF THE S THAN FCST...WITH SPEEDS AND SEAS ON TRACK. .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. GOULD
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Ben Hill
- When
- April 3, 9:20 PM EST to 9:25 PM EST
- Where
- Ben Hill County, Countywide
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.767, -83.267
Numerous reports of golfball size hail by the Ben Hill County Sheriff.
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
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- 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: 5293578, 5293579.