Hail, Coffee
- When
- July 6, 8:00 PM EST
- Where
- Coffee County, Chatterton
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.517, -82.733
Hail in Georgia, July 6, 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 Jul 6, 7:14 PM EST, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 7:14 PM EST, 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 814 PM EDT SAT JUL 06 2002 ONE STORM OVER SOUTHWEST MARION COUNTY...OTHERWISE THE MAIN ACTION IS IN NORTHERN-MOST COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE SEEMS REASONABLE. WILL UPDATE FORECAST PACKAGE AFTER 900 PM TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. ZAPPE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 6, 7:00 PM EST, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
800 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM HAZLEHURST GA WIND DAMAGE
07/06/02 JEFF DAVIS NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND
POWER LINES DOWN.
HESSLocal storm report, Jul 6, 7:10 PM EST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
810 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM HAZLEHURST GA WIND DAMAGE
07/06/02 JEFF DAVIS NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND
POWER LINES DOWN.
0800 PM BAXLEY GA WIND DAMAGE
07/06/02 APPLING SCATTERED TREES DOWN AND
POWER LINES DOWN.
HESSThe 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
- Heat in Missouri, July 6 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Nebraska, July 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 6 to 8, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, July 6, 2002
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 6, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 6 to 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 6, 2002
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 6, 2002
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 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: 5306702.