Name: Hail in Illinois, June 14, 2002
Start: 2002-06-14T10:25
End: 2002-06-14T10:43
Location: Illinois

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 1:23 AM CST, 9 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:23 AM CST, 9 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
223 AM CDT FRI JUN 14 2002

FORECAST CONCERN FOCUSES ON UPPER LOW OVER NORTHERN PLAINS AND ITS
SLOW MOVEMENT ACROSS LAKES REGION THRU EARLY NEXT WEEK. ONE VORT
MOVING THRU REGION THIS AM WITH A FEW SHOWERS FINALLY DISSIPATING.

UPPER LOW SLOWLY MOVES FROM MINNESOTA THIS AM TO SOUTHERN LAKES
TODAY THEN PUSHING TO EASTERN LAKES BY SUNDAY MORNING...WHERE IT
BECOMES STATIONARY. SERIES OF VORTS ROTATE AROUND UPPER LOW EACH DAY
BRINGING THREAT OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. DAYTIME HEATING
AND TIMING OF VORTS PUT BEST CHANCES OF PRECIP AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. WILL EXTEND CHANCE OF PRECIP INTO SUNDAY...WITH UPPER LOW
FINALLY LIFTING NORTHEAST INTO QUEBEC ON MONDAY AND SURFACE HIGH
BUILDING IN ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS AND OHIO VALLEY...WILL DRY THINGS
OUT MON AND TUES. WARM ADVECTION BEHIND LOW MIDWEEK AND WILL BRING
MENTION OF PRECIP BACK WED AND THURS.

ANOTHER CONCERN IS THREAT OF HAIL/WINDS TODAY. FREEZING LEVEL ONLY
AT 8 KFT AND WINDS AT 500MB 40KTS OR SO. CAPE RUNNING 300-600 J/KG.
SO SOME THUNDERSTORMS CERTAINLY CAPABLE OF SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY
WINDS BUT WOULD EXPECT MOST ACTIVITY TO REMAIN BELOW SVR LIMITS.

AS FOR TEMPS GUIDANCE SIMILAR INTO THE WEEKEND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
THE MAV MUCH WARMER ON SAT. WITH PRECIP MENTIONED WILL GO WITH
COOLER FWC SAT...OTHERWISE WILL STAY CLOSE. AS SURFACE HIGH MOVES
EAST TUES...TEMPS WARM INTO THE 80S BY LATE WEEK.

.CHI...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:32 AM CST, 5 hours 53 minutes before

ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>023-032>033-039-INZ001>002-010>011-
019-141700-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
600 AM CDT/EST FRI JUN 14 2002

FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA...

NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE OVER THE MIDWEST THIS MORNING...WILL
SLOWLY MOVE EAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION TODAY. UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCES WILL ROTATE AROUND THIS UPPER LOW THROUGH SUNDAY. ALONG
WITH DAYTIME HEATING...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...TODAY...SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY...SATURDAY OR SUNDAY...
SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS...AS THE COLDEST AIR ALOFT ASSOCIATED
WITH THIS UPPER LEVEL LOW...MOVES THROUGH THE REGION TODAY.

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 10 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:27 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Will

When: June 14, 10:25 AM CST
Where: Will County, 2 mi SE of Joliet
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.517, -88.067

Hail, Cook

When: June 14, 10:43 AM CST
Where: Cook County, Alsip
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.667, -87.733

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

Every storm in Illinois in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Illinois, June 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: 5298820, 5298821.