Name: Hail in Indiana, May 28, 2002
Start: 2002-05-28T19:43
End: 2002-05-28T19:43
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 May 28, 2:30 PM EST, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:30 PM EST, 5 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
230 PM EST TUE MAY 28 2002

BIG PROBLEM IN AFTERNOON FORECAST IS TIMING OF PRECIPITATION EVENTS
NEXT 48 HOURS.

MODELS GENERALLY KEEP SUMMERTIME AIR MASS IN PLACE THROUGH
THURSDAY WITH NO DEFINITIVE SHORTWAVES TO IMPACT THE AREA
UNTIL THURSDAY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE SEVERAL
SHORTWAVES EMANATING FROM TROF DEVELOPING OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI
VALLEY THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AND ENHANCE ANY CONVECTION
ALREADY OCCURRING OR READY TO FIRE. MODELS ARE HOWEVER SIMILAR IN
DROPPING A FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT TROF ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY
AFTERNOON AS FLOW ACROSS THE AREA TRANSITIONS FROM WESTERLY TO
NORTHWEST. KEPT POPS IN ALL PERIODS THROUGH THURSDAY WITH HIGHEST
(50 PERCENT) FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THEN LOWERED TO 30 PERCENT.
POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN IS PRESENT WITH WET AIR MASS IN PLACE BUT
AREAL COVERAGE WILL BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED AND DID NOT STRESS IN ZONE.

SCATTERED CONVECTION ATTM MAINLY ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AREAS AND WILL
BEGIN DIURNAL DECREASE BY SUNSET. OTHER ACTIVITY OVER FAR SOUTHWEST
INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY MOVING NORTHEAST BUT DECREASE ALSO
EXPECTED BY SUNSET AND DONT THINK WILL SPREAD VERY FAR INTO THE CWA.

SUMMERTIME TEMPERATURES ALSO TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE
WEEK WITH LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 60S AND HIGHS 80 TO 85. MAXES WILL
BE VERY DEPENDENT ON AMOUNTS OF SUNSHINE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. IF
THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON START OUT MOSTLY SUNNY THEN MID 80S
ARE A REAL POSSIBILITY.

.IND...NONE.
RPG

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 1:57 PM EST, 5 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
157 PM EST TUE MAY 28 2002

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    2 W COLUMBUS              IN   .5 INCH HAIL
05/28/02   BARTHOLOMEW                    EVENT DURATION 5
                                          MINUTES. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:42 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hendricks

When: May 28, 7:43 PM EST
Where: Hendricks County, Belleville
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 39.683, -86.483

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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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: 5296220.