Illinois, 2002

Hail in Illinois, April 24, 2002

April 24, 2002 · NWS LSX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 24, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED TO ADD TOR WATCH #147 DISC
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
325 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

THE SKINNY...STG CDFNT MOVG ACRS FA ATTM WITH STG-SVR TSTMS ALG/AHD
OF IT.  CDFNT WL BE THRU ERN/SRN PRTNS OF FA BFR 00Z...SO ONLY BRIEF
MENTION OF TSTMS ERL TNGT WL BE NEEDED.

OTRW...TEMPS THE ONLY FCST PROB THRU THU NGT WITH GUIDANCE HANDLING
THINGS RATHER WELL.  AIRMASS BLDG IN BHND CDFNT QUITE COOL FOR LATE
APRIL.

NXT PCPN CHC WL BE ON FRI AFTN AS WRMFNT PUSHES NEWD IN RESPONSE TO
LEE CYCLOGEN.  STG LOW-MID LVL WAA/THTA-E ADVCTN BLDS IN LATE ON
NOSE OF DIFFUSE H850 JET.  CONDS FAVORABLE FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION
EVENT BEGINNING LATE FRI AFTN CONTG INTO FRI NGT/ERL SAT MRNG.  WL
KP THUNDER GOING ON FRI AFTN DESPITE RATHER LOW SHOWALTER VALUES...
AS LOCN OF TGT SHOWALTER GRAD MORE IMPORTANT THAN ACTUAL VALUES.

MORE OF THE SAME HEADING INTO EXTDD PD WITH PCPN EVENT EVERY 2-3
DAYS AND SEASONABLE TEMPS.

***WL TRIM AWAY AT EXISTING TOR WATCH...GIVEN CURRENT POSN OF FNT.
XPCTD EXTENT OF TOR WATCH AT ZONE PRESS TIME WL BE ROUGHLY FM
LITCHFIELD-CPS-FAM.***

.STL...TOR WATCH #147 ROUGHLY ALG AND E OF A LN FM
       LITCHFIELD IL-CPS-FAM.
TES

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:26 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Randolph

When
April 24, 4:25 PM CST
Where
Randolph County, Sparta
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
38.117, -89.700

Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.

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

More

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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: 5289972.