Hail, Harrison
- When
- May 29, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Harrison County, 2 mi NW of Little Sioux
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.817, -96.067
Hail in Iowa, May 29, 2002
1 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
- 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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 3:00 PM CST, 11 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:00 PM CST, 11 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 400 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002 SEVERAL LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION AND OLD FRONTS ARE A CONCERN FOR MORE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES FROM OLD STORMS ARE BEGINNING TO LIGHT UP WITH NEW STORMS. DUE TO EARLIER FLOODING PROBLEMS AND COMPLEX FORECAST PLEASE REFER TO THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION. SMITH 250 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002 MCS OVER FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING WITH LINE STARTING TO PUSH INTO IOWA AT 0730Z. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO END ACROSS AREA THIS MORNING AS TROF OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS SHIFTS EAST. SOME CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SFC TROF OVER NRN PLAINS WORKS ITS WAY EAST. ONLY REAL CHANGE TO GOING FORECAST WAS TO INCREASE TEMPS FOR TODAY AND WEDNESDAY. REMAINDER OF FORECAST LEFT PRETTY MUCH ALONE DUE TO ONGOING CONVECTION THIS MORNING. FOBERT IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS ON THE NEW FORECAST DISCUSSION FORMAT...PLEASE E-MAIL THEM TO W-OAX.WEBMASTER@NOAA.GOV OR CALL DAVE THEOPHILUS AT 402-359-5166. .OMA...NONE. SMITH
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:59 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Blizzard in Washington, May 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, May 29 to 30, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 29, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, May 29, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 29, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 29, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 29, 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: 5299677.