Hail, Jones
- When
- May 13, 3:07 PM CST
- Where
- Jones County, 1 mi W of Canton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.167, -90.917
Hail in Iowa, May 13, 2002
2 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
- 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 13, 11:55 AM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 11:55 AM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1255 PM CDT MON MAY 13 2002 12Z UA ANALYSIS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOW SHARPENING RIDGE FROM WESTERN CANADA THROUGH NORTHERN ROCKIES...INDUCING SOUTHWARD ADVANCING H3 80+KT JET MAX IN EASTERN DAKOTAS AND WESTERN MN. JET MAX PROGGED TO DIVE ACROSS REGION THIS EVE WITH SMALL CHC OF SHOWERS/FEW TSTMS ON COLD CYLCONIC SIDE OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES. WITH LOW WBZ (5000-6000 AGL) SOME SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE WITH STRONGEST CELLS...MAINLY PEA SIZED. BOUNDARY LAYER DIFF THETA-E <-10C...SO WIND GUSTS LOOK TO REMAIN BELOW 45 KTS WITH ANY CONVECTION. BULK OF PCPN EXPECTED TO DIMINISH SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET WITH LOSS OF HEATING. ASSOCIATED SURFACE WAVE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN LAKE SUPERIOR...DRAGGING WEAK COLD FRONT THROUGH REGION TONIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDS IN LATE TUE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT...PROVIDING DRY AND PLEASANT CONDITIONS INTO WED. MODELS SUGGEST FRONTAL PASSAGE THU. WILL CONTINUE CHC POPS WED NIGHT-THU. WAVE PROGGED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN PLAINS ON THU...LIFTING E/NE ALONG FRONTAL ZONE. AVN/ECMWF SLOWEST AND WOULD SUGGEST LINGERING RAIN CHCS IN SOUTH EARLY ON FRI. AS FOR TEMPS...MAV/FWC GUIDANCE REASONABLE AND IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH TUE NIGHT...AND WILL STAY CLOSE. DIFFERENCES SHOW UP ON WED...WITH MAV SOME 6 TO 8 DEGS COOLER THAN FWC ON HIGHS MAINLY CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES. SEE NO REASON TO SIDE WITH COOLER MAV GUIDANCE...WITH LLVL SOUTH WINDS AHEAD OF APPROACHING FRONTAL ZONE. .EXTENDED (FRI-MON)... MODELS SUGGEST OMEGA BLOCK DEVELOPING OVER CANADA WITH COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE DROPPING DOWN ACROSS REGION FRI-SAT. NEXT SYSTEM LATE SUN-MON. MOISTURE IN QUESTION INITIALLY WITH HIGH PRESSURE RIDGING INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. MOISTURE WILL BE WORKING THE LONG HAUL THROUGH WEST TEXAS THEN NORTHWARD INTO THE HIGH PLAINS BEFORE SHIFTING EAST...SO WILL GO WITH PCPN CHCS LATE SUN...CONTINUING INTO MON. .DVN... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. MCCLURE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 13, 2:29 PM CST, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
329 PM CDT MON MAY 13 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0327 PM 1 S TIPTON IA .5 INCH HAIL
05/13/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 13, 2:52 PM CST, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
352 PM CDT MON MAY 13 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM NEW VIENNA IA .5 INCH HAIL
05/13/02 DUBUQUE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Scott
- When
- May 13, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County, 1 mi S of Long Grove
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 41.683, -90.600
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
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 13, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 13 to 21, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 13 to 14, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 13, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, 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: 5297765, 5297766.