Name: Hail in Kentucky, April 24, 2002
Start: 2002-04-24T17:57
End: 2002-04-24T17:57
Location: Kentucky

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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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 24, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
315 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

WILL KEEP DISCUSSION SHORT DUE TO SVR WX AND GRID TRANSFER PROBLEMS
IN IFPS.

CURRENT FCST WILL TREND SVR POTENTIAL EWD THROUGH CWA THROUGH 03Z.
THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH MARKEDLY FROM 03Z TO 06Z...AS FROPA MOVES
EAST OF FCST AREA. GIVE HIGH PWS...SUSPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL
ALSO BE A THREAT WITH THE SCATTERED WIND/HAIL DAMAGE POTENTIAL.

AFTER TONIGHT...I WILL KEEP MENTION OF SHWRS ONLY FOR FRIDAY...WITH
A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. I INCREASED POP FOR
MONDAY INTO TUESDAY PCPN EVENT...AS MEDIUM RANGE ENSEMBLES STILL
SHOW A FOCUSED BOUNDARY AND LIFT OVER THE AREA. ALTHOUGH A SMALL
CHANCE OF PCPN IS POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY...WILL KEEP IT DRY AT THIS
TIME.

FOR MAX/MIN TEMPS...WENT SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN MAV GUIDANCE IN SHORT
TERM...THEN SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN MEX /NOW AVN EXTENDED/ MOS GUIDANCE.

MANUALLY GENERATED ZONES SHOULD BE AVAILABLE NO LATER THAN 4 PM. CCF
WILL DELAYED A LITTLE LONGER.

.PAH...NONE.

SMITH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 24, 4:35 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
535 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

0532 PM    3W SHAWNEETOWN            IL   FUNNEL CLOUD
04/24/02   GALLATIN                       REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.
                                          ALONG ROUTE 13...3 MILES
                                          EAST OF ROUTE 1.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 4:53 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
553 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

0546 PM    STANLEY                   KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   DAVIESS                        REPORTED BY EMA.

0535 PM    3W DUDLEY                 MO   TORNADO
04/24/02   BUTLER                         REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.
                                          TOUCHED DOWN THEN WENT
                                          BACK UP

0536 PM    GORDONVILLE               MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 REPORTED BY CAPE
                                          GIRARDEAU MEDIA

0538 PM    4N ZION                   KY   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   HENDERSON                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:00 PM CST, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
600 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

0559 PM    1E FISK                   MO   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   STODDARD                       REPORTED BY EM

0559 PM    3SW DEXTER                MO   FUNNEL CLOUD
04/24/02   STODDARD                       REPORTED BY EM

0602 PM    LIVERMORE                 KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   MCLEAN                         REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:20 PM CST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
620 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

0614 PM    ADVANCE                   MO   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   STODDARD                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:51 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
651 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

0610 PM    CARBONDALE                IL   0.50 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   JACKSON

0610 PM    CARBONDALE                IL   WIND DAMAGE
04/24/02   JACKSON                        TREES DOWN ON WILLOW AND
                                          N MCKINLEY STREET AND
                                          WEST SYCAMORE. REPORTED
                                          BY EOC.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:55 PM CST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
655 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

0651 PM    BASKET                    KY   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   HENDERSON                      REPORTED BY EMA

0657 PM    UTICA                     KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   DAVIESS                        REPORTED BY EM

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Daviess

When: April 24, 5:57 PM CST
Where: Daviess County, Utica
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 37.617, -87.117

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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: 5293661.