1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 24, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 315 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002 WILL KEEP DISCUSSION SHORT DUE TO SVR WX AND GRID TRANSFER PROBLEMS IN IFPS. CURRENT FCST WILL TREND SVR POTENTIAL EWD THROUGH CWA THROUGH 03Z. THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH MARKEDLY FROM 03Z TO 06Z...AS FROPA MOVES EAST OF FCST AREA. GIVE HIGH PWS...SUSPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE A THREAT WITH THE SCATTERED WIND/HAIL DAMAGE POTENTIAL. AFTER TONIGHT...I WILL KEEP MENTION OF SHWRS ONLY FOR FRIDAY...WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. I INCREASED POP FOR MONDAY INTO TUESDAY PCPN EVENT...AS MEDIUM RANGE ENSEMBLES STILL SHOW A FOCUSED BOUNDARY AND LIFT OVER THE AREA. ALTHOUGH A SMALL CHANCE OF PCPN IS POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY...WILL KEEP IT DRY AT THIS TIME. FOR MAX/MIN TEMPS...WENT SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN MAV GUIDANCE IN SHORT TERM...THEN SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN MEX /NOW AVN EXTENDED/ MOS GUIDANCE. MANUALLY GENERATED ZONES SHOULD BE AVAILABLE NO LATER THAN 4 PM. CCF WILL DELAYED A LITTLE LONGER. .PAH...NONE. SMITH
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-242105- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1222 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002 ...UPDATED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA... THREATS... A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS OVER THE ENTIRE QUAD STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVERNIGHT AND MOVED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND EXTREME SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. THIS STALLED THE NORTHWARD MOVEMENT OF A WARM FRONT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. THIS WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BEGIN TO MOVE NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON...REACHING NEAR A PERRYVILLE MISSOURI...MARION ILLINOIS TO HENDERSON KENTUCKY LINE AROUND 4 PM. WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS EXPECTED SOUTH OF THE WARM FRONT... WITH TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO RISE INTO THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S. AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL INCREASE DRAMATICALLY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN SPREAD EASTWARD INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING. INITIALLY...THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON WILL STRETCH FROM NEAR PERRYVILLE AND CHARLESTON MISSOURI...EAST TO CARBONDALE AND HARRISBURG ILLINOIS...AND ONWARD TO HENDERSON AND SMITHLAND KENTUCKY. THE MAIN LIMITING FACTOR TO THE COVERAGE OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE THE AMOUNT OF CLOUDS LEFT OVER FROM THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. THE MORE SUNSHINE AVAILABLE THIS AFTERNOON...THE GREATER THE THREAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY CHANGES IN THIS DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. && SMITH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
359 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM DAHLGREN IL 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 HAMILTON REPORTED BY STATE
TROOPER
0351 PM FAIRFIELD IL 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 WAYNE REPORTED BY EMA
0326 PM DIX IL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY DEPUTYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
404 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PM FAIRFIELD IL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 WAYNE REPORTED BY EVANSVILLE
MEDIAPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
421 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0417 PM ENFIELD IL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 WHITE REPORTED BY EVANSVILLE
MEDIA
0421 PM IL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 WHITE REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
0410 PM 8NE MCLEANSBORO IL 0.50 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 HAMILTON REPORTED BY SPOTTER
0400 PM MCLEANSBORO IL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 HAMILTON REPORTED BY SHERIFFPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
424 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PM 6W MCLEANSBORO IL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 HAMILTON REPORTED BY FIRE RESCUE
0423 PM CARMI IL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 WHITE REPORTED BY EVANSVILLE
MEDIA
0415 PM VAN BUREN MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 CARTER
0415 PM VAN BUREN MO FUNNEL CLOUD
04/24/02 CARTER REPORTED BY SPOTTER
0415 PM 1S VAN BUREN MO WIND DAMAGE
04/24/02 CARTER TREES DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY
103The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hundreds of homes and vehicles were damaged by hail across White County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, April 2002
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: 5293558.