Hail, Saline
- When
- April 24, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County, Harrisburg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.733, -88.550
Hail in Illinois, April 24, 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 24, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 24, 3:51 PM CST, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
451 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0448 PM MOUNT VERNON IN 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 POSEY REPORTED BY EVANSVILLE
EMALocal storm report, Apr 24, 3:56 PM CST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
456 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0456 PM BUFKIN IN 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 POSEY REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
0456 PM HIGHWAY 67 MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY EMLocal storm report, Apr 24, 4:03 PM CST, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
503 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM MO TORNADO
04/24/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
IN NORTHERN BUTLER. ON
THE GROUND ALONG HIGHWAY
417.Local storm report, Apr 24, 4:13 PM CST, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
513 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0509 PM 1S HENDRICKSON MO TORNADO
04/24/02 BUTLER TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
EASTBOUND ON HIGHWAY 67
AND O HIGHWAY. STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE WITH ROOFS OFF.Local storm report, Apr 24, 4:17 PM CST, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
517 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 3N POPLAR BLUFF MO TORNADO
04/24/02 BUTLER TORNADO ON THE GROUND
REPORTED BY STATE
POLICE.
0513 PM EQUALITY IL TORNADO
04/24/02 GALLATIN REPORTED BY SPOTTER AND
FIRE DEPARTMENT
440 PM EQUALITY IL 2.50 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 GALLATIN REPORTED BY FIRE
DEPARTMENT
0516 PM IN 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 VANDERBURGH DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
NEAR EVANSVILLE. REPORTED
BY EMA.Local storm report, Apr 24, 4:22 PM CST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
522 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0456 PM HIGHWAY 67 MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 BUTLER DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EM
0525 PM DUQUOIN IL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 PERRY REPORTED BY ESDAThe radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 24, 2002
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: 5293672.