Hail, Hancock
- When
- May 11, 1:58 PM CST
- Where
- Hancock County, Dallas City
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.633, -91.167
Hail in Illinois, May 11, 2002
3 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
- 3
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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 11, 1:30 PM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 1:30 PM CST, 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 230 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 WIDESPREAD 1 TO 2 INCH RAINS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CWA SETTING STAGE FOR POSSIBILITY OF MORE FLOODING TONIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY. LOOKS LIKE HYDRO SITUATION WILL BE MAIN CONCERN THIS ISSUANCE ALONG WITH SEVERE POTENTIAL OVERNIGHT ACROSS SOUTH. SOUTHERN CWA CURRENTLY UNDER FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT WHERE MODELS STILL SUGGEST BEST POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL BE OVERNIGHT. ALSO LOOKS LIKE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY MORNING AND WILL EXTEND WATCH ACCORDINGLY. BIG DILEMA IS WHETHER TO BRING WATCH FURTHER NW WITH GROUND NOW SATURATED FROM THIS MORNINGS RAIN. FEELING IS THAT MODELS ARE ALREADY TOO FAR N WITH WARM FRONT AT 18Z...WITH CLOUDS AND RAIN-COOLED AIR NORTH OF BOUNDARY ENHANCING FRONT...MODEL POSITION ACROSS SE IA AND W CENTRAL IL IS QUESTIONABLE. WILL MONITOR FRONT AND IF THERE ISNT MUCH NORTHWARD PUSH...WILL KEEP LOCATION OF WATCH INTACT. SOME RISK OF SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AHEAD OF SFC LOW PROGGED TO MOVE ALONG BOUNDARY ACROSS NRN MO/SRN IA THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. POTENTIAL LATE TODAY WILL BE DEPENDENT ON AMOUNT OF DESTABALIZATION OVER CENTRAL MO WHERE CLOUDS ARE CURRENTLY LIMITING AFTERNOON HEATING AND WARM FRONTAL POSITION. AT THIS POINT BELIEVE SEVERE POTENTIAL IS MINIMAL AND WILL BE LIMITED TO FAR SOUTH. MODELS SIMILAR THROUGH TUESDAY PUSHING FRONT SOUTH OF AREA BY LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AS NORTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPS OVER REGION. ANOTHER WEAK S/W DROPS SOUTH THROUGH MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MONDAY NIGHT. FORCING AND MOISTURE LIMITED...SO NOTHING MORE THAN CLOUDS EXPECTED. WILL FAVOR COOLER MAV NUMBERS WITH COOL NW FLOW THROUGH PERIOD. .EXTENDED LONG RANGE MODELS IN CLOSER AGREEMENT FOR LATE WEEK WITH ACTIVE PATTERN CONTINUING. MODELS POINTING TO ANOTHER SIGNIFIANT RAINFALL EVENT FOR REGION THURSDAY/FRIDAY WITH ANOTHER FRONT STALLING OVER SOUTHERN CWA AND SFC LOW MOVING ALONG BOUNDARY. AVN POINTING TO SOME PCPN WEDNESDAY...BUT LOOKS WAY OVER DONE. SO...WILL GO CHANCE TSRA WED THRU SATURDAY. .DVN...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT IA...IAZ078-087>089-098-099. IL...ILZ016>018-024>026-034-035. MO...MOZ009-010. DLF
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:55 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Henderson
- When
- May 11, 2:05 PM CST
- Where
- Henderson County, 2 mi S of Stronghurst
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.717, -90.900
Hail, Warren
- When
- May 11, 2:40 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County, Greenbush
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.717, -90.533
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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, May 11 to 12, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 11 to 12, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, May 11, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 11 to 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 11, 2002
- Flooding in Iowa, May 11 to 14, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 11 to 17, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 11, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Illinois, May 11 to 12, 2002
- High Surf in Hawaii, May 11 to 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, 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: 5299073, 5299074, 5299075.