Hail, Ware
- When
- May 10, 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ware County, Ft Mudge
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 31.067, -82.183
Near Fort Mudge. Reported by Georgia Forestry Offical.
Hail in Georgia, May 10, 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 May 10, 7:00 PM EST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 7:00 PM EST, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 800 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2002 PUBLIC...SCATTERED CONVECTION OVER OUR INTERIOR N GA COUNTIES BEGAN TO FIRE AROUND 5 PM NEAR THE THERMAL LOW...WHERE ALMA SET A NEW HIGH TODAY OF 95. BACK-BUILDING WAS INDICATED NEAR 2330Z ACROSS WARE AND NORTHERN PIERCE. COOLER MID LEVELS HAVE MADE HAIL THE GREATEST THREAT WITH VILS ROCKETING TO >70 KG/M2. STPS ARE ALSO IMPRESSIVE ON KJAX RADAR...6 TO 7 INCHES OVER NORTHERN PIECE COUNTY AND NEAR THE CITY OF SCHLATTERVILLE ALONG THE BORDER OF WAYNE AND BRANTLEY COUNTIES. HAIL CONTAMINATION IS HIGHLY LIKELY. THE ACTIVITY LINGERS UNDER WEAK STEERING FLOW WHERE LOW LVL SEA BREEZE MOISTURE FLUX HAS BEEN COUNTER BALANCED BY WEAK UPR LVL WESTERLIES. WILL LEAVE IN EVENING POPS FOR GA UNTIL CONVECTION DIES. STORM HAS POPPED IN SUWANEE AND WILL AMEND ZONES. FOG ALREADY IN PLACE IN CURRENT PACKAGE. MARINE...NO HIGHLIGHTS. SSE WINDS REPORTED AT GRAYS REEF 14 KTS WITH GUSTS TO 16 KTS. AT CANAVERAL WEST EAST WINDS AT 08 KTS WITH GUSTS TO 10 KTS. SEAS 3 FT NEARSHORE. CURRENT PACKAGE HANDLES RECENT OBS WELL. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. BROYLES/SHASHY
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:05 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
- Rip Current in Florida, May 10, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 10, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 10, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 10 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, May 10, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 10 to 11, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, May 10 to 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 10, 2002
- High Wind in California, May 10 to 11, 2002
- Flooding in Wisconsin, May 10 to 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 10, 2002
- Hail in Georgia, May 10, 2002
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, 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: 5290557.