Hail, Dubuque
- When
- May 6, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dubuque County, 1 mi SE of Sherrill
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.583, -90.767
Hail in Iowa, May 6, 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 6, 1:37 PM CST, 6 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:37 PM CST, 6 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 237 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 SYNOPTIC PICTURE THIS AFTERNOON SHOWS BROAD 500H OVER WESTERN TWO- THIRDS OF COUNTRY WITH 538 CLOSED LOW NEAR SEATTLE. AT THE SURFACE... DIFFUSE COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM CENTRAL NEBRASKA THRU NORTHWEST IOWA INTO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. SKIES ARE SUNNY ACROSS FORECAST AREA...WITH MORNING MCS THAT SKIRTED EXTREME SOUTH NOW ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. DEW POINTS ARE NEAR 60...WITH 65 DEW POINTS IN CENTRAL KANSAS AND CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND 70 ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS. MODELS INITIALIZED WELL THIS MORNING ON KEY FEATURES...CAPTURING 500H LOW OVER SEATTLE...WHICH WILL BE A PLAYER IN OUR WEATHER THURSDAY...AND ALSO DOING WELL WITH SURFACE FRONT. MESO-ETA IS DOING BEST IN SHORT- TERM WITH QPF FIELDS...WITH NGM AND AVN O.K. PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN THIS PACKAGE IS PRECIP CHANCES THRU WEDNESDAY NIGHT...INCLUDING POSSIBLE SEVERE AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. MODELS AGREE ON COLD FRONT SINKING SLOWLY SOUTH THRU DVN BY 06Z AND WELL SOUTH OF THE AREA TUESDAY. WILL BE HARD TO RULE OUT CHANCE OF THUNDER THIS EVENING...WITH MODERATE MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES...THETA-E RIDGE...AND FRONT MOVING THRU. ON THE OTHER HAND...THERE ARE NO STRONG TRIGGERS...AS FRONT IS DIFFUSE...AND NO LOW-LEVEL JET TONIGHT. MODELS START DISAGREEING SHARPLY TUESDAY...AS LOW DEEPENS IN KANSAS. BY TUESDAY NIGHT...42 HOURS...AVN HAS FRONT BACK UP TO DVN AS A WARM FRONT...WHILE ETA AND NGM ARE LESS AGGRESSIVE...WITH FRONT THRU NORTHERN MISSOURI. DISAGREEMENTS CONTINUE THRU WEDNESDAY. BY 00Z THURSDAY...AVN HAS 997MB LOW NEAR DBQ...WITH COLD FRONT SWEEPING THRU FORECAST AREA BY 03Z. ETA HAS 996MB LOW HANGING BACK IN KANSAS...WITH WARM FRONT THRU BRL. OTHER THAN THE CHANCE OF THUNDER THIS EVENING...THINGS BEGIN IN EARNEST TUESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING...WITH WARM FRONT EDGING NEAR SOUTHERN EDGE OF FORECAST AREA. TUESDAY NIGHT WILL HAVE FAVORABLE LOW-LEVEL JET...STRONG VVS IN THE 06Z-12Z TIME FRAME...AND MODERATE 300H DIVERGENCE ALTHOUGH UPPER JET NOT A BIG PLAYER. WEDNESDAY WILL PROBABLY SEE PRECIP MOVING OFF TO THE EAST IN MORNING...WITH ATMOSPHERE REFUELING BY AFTERNOON WITH STRONG LAPSE RATES. STRONG DYNAMICS CONTINUE TIL AROUND 06Z WEDNESDAY NIGHT...THEM END ABRUPTLY. 500H TROF AXIS MOVES OVERHEAD AROUND 18Z THURSDAY...POSSIBLY A LITTLE LATER. SPC HAS SLIGHT RISK SEVERE FOR ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT...AND FOR THE SOUTHERN 2/3S DAY 2. RISK FOR THIS EVENING WOULD BE FOR ISOLATED HAIL...WITH RISK DAY 2 MORE COMPLEX WITH FRONT IMPINGING ON SOUTH. ALSO...MAY NEED FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TUESDAY NIGHT FOR SOUTHERN PORTION OF FORECAST AREA...AS HAVE HAD A LOT OF RAIN LATELY... ESPECIALLY SCOTLAND AND CLARK COUNTIES THIS MORNING. WILL TRIM BACK POPS A BIT TONIGHT AND TUESDAY...BUT STAY WITH MAIN GIST OF FORECAST FOR THE MAIN EVENT TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY MORNING. WILL TAKE PRECIP OUT OF FORECAST FRIDAY...AS HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE OVER AREA. .DVN... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. REA
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 6, 7:34 PM CST, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
834 PM CDT MON MAY 06 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0832 PM 3 SE NEW VIENNA IA .5 INCH HAIL
05/06/02 DUBUQUE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:30 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, May 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 6 to 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, May 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 6, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, May 6 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, May 6, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Texas, May 6, 2002
- Hail in Michigan, May 6, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 6 to 17, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 6, 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: 5299693.