Name: Hail in Indiana, August 2, 2002
Start: 2002-08-02T16:26
End: 2002-08-02T16:26
Location: Indiana

Where it happened

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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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 2:05 PM EST, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:05 PM EST, 2 hours 21 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
205 PM EST FRI AUG 2 2002

SFC ANALYSIS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON INDICATES CD FRONT S OF LAF AND MIE
BUT N OF IND STRETCHING EWRD TO CENTRAL OH AND WRN PA AND WRN NY.
DEWPOINTS ACRS THE AREA ARE STILL VRY MOIST IN THE UPPER 60S TO LWR
TO MID 70S IN SOME LOCATIONS. SAT IMAGERY SHOWS JUST HIGH CLOUDINESS
ACRS THE AREA FROM DISSIPATING MCS AND EXPECT CLRING TO CONTINUE.

MAIN FCST CHALLENGE WL BE TEMPS.

MODELS STILL IN GOOD AGREEMENT...LINGERING CD FRONT ACRS CENTRAL
INDIANA TONIGHT. LITTLE CHANGE IN AIR MASS ALONG THE FRONT. TIME
SECTIONS THROUGH THIS PD ARE STILL QUITE DRY AND SUBSIDENCE
CONTINUES. UPPER RIDGE BUILDS ACRS THE AREA THIS WEEKEND AND MID LVLS
REMAIN DRY. THUS MORE HOT AND DRY WX ON TAP FOR THIS WEEKEND.

WITH THE LITTLE CHANGE IN AIRMASS WL STEER TOWARD PERSISTENCE FOR
HIGHS AND KEEP AN EYE ON DEWPOINTS FOR LOWS. DEWPOINTS A BIT HIGHER
IN SOME LOCALS THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THIS AM SCT TSRA. DUE TO HIGHER
DEWPOINTS MAY NEED TO BUMP UP LOWS SLIGHTLY. FURTHERMORE...THESE
HIGHER DEWPOINTS ARE RESULTING IN HIGHER HEAT INDICIES...NO HEAT
ADVISORY FOR NOW...BUT WL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE
3 HRS AT 105 HI THRESHOLD.

DO NOT LIKE MAV POPS ON SUN AND WL KEEP FORECAST DRY AT THAT
TIME...AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WL STILL BE WELL TO THE NORTH AND MID
LEVELS REMAIN DRY. A COMPLETE LACK OF UPPER DYNAMICS EXISTS ALSO.

.IND...NONE.
PUMA

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:23 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Putnam

When: August 2, 4:26 PM EST
Where: Putnam County, Greencastle
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.650, -86.867

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.

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More

Every storm in Indiana in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Indiana, August 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: 5309897.