Hail, Cherokee
- When
- May 8, 9:05 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County, Melrose
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 37.033, -94.950
Hail in Kansas, May 8, 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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 8, 2:04 PM CST, 7 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:04 PM CST, 7 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 304 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 FORECAST CONCERNS TODAY INCLUDE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT AND ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN BEGINNING ON FRIDAY. SURFACE FRONT ROUGHLY ALONG AN OMA-ICT LINE AT THIS TIME. SATELLITE IS INDICATING CONVECTION ALREADY BEGINNING TO FIRE ALONG THE FRONT. UPPER LEVEL NORTHERN TROUGH EXPECTED TO MOVE THE SURFACE FRONT THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT. WILL KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. EXPECT A SQUALL LINE TO DEVELOP BY EARLY EVENING AND BEGIN AFFECTING OUR CWA AROUND 00Z. AVN HAS THE FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA BY 06Z AND THROUGH BY 12Z. LOOKS LIKE ONLY ONE ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS TO DEAL WITH TONIGHT RATHER THAN 2-3. WHILE RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD BE HEAVY...DO NOT ANTICIPATE AS MUCH RAIN AS LAST NIGHT. ONCE THIS SYSTEM IS THROUGH...THE NEXT CONCERN IS FOR FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AVN IS BRINGING A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES ACROSS THE AREA BEGINNING FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AS SUCH...WILL INTRODUCE POPS IN FOR BOTH FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. AFTER THAT...DID NOT MAKE TOO MANY CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED DUE TO ONGOING WEATHER SITUATION. .SGF... MO...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 700 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES MOZ055>058... MOZ066>071...MOZ077>083...MOZ088>098...MOZ101>106. KS...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 700 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES KSZ073... KSZ097...KSZ101. GAEDE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 8, 7:00 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>057-066>069-077>081-088>091-093>095-101>104- 090700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 800 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 259...IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BARRY...BARTON...BENTON...CAMDEN...CEDAR...CHRISTIAN...DADE... DALLAS...GREENE...HICKORY...JASPER...LACLEDE...LAWRENCE...MCDONALD... MILLER...MORGAN...NEWTON...POLK...ST. CLAIR...STONE...TANEY...VERNON AND WEBSTER. IN KANSAS: BOURBON...CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE BOLIVAR... BRANSON...CAMDENTON...FORT SCOTT...JOPLIN...LEBANON...MONETT...MOUNT VERNON...NEOSHO...NEVADA...OSAGE BEACH...OZARK...PITTSBURG... SPRINGFIELD AND STOCKTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BOOKBINDER
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:03 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
- Tornado in Ohio, May 8, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, May 8 to 31, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 8, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 8, 2002
- Flooding in Kansas, May 8 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 8, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 8, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 8, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 8, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 31, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 10, 2002
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, 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: 5294145.