Name: Hail in Kentucky, February 20, 2002
Start: 2002-02-20T18:40
End: 2002-02-20T18:40
Location: Kentucky

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 20, 4:10 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 4:10 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
410 PM EST WED FEB 20 2002

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE REGION THIS EVENING...WITH
BEST CHANCE OVER THE NW COUNTIES.  HAVE MENTIONED POSSIBLE STRONG
WINDS AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE ZONES.

TOMORROW WITH SOME SOLAR INSULATION AND LIMITED MOISTURE AM NOT
EXPECTING RAIN SHOWERS...BUT FEEL THAT SOME SPRINKLES WILL BE
POSSIBLE IN THE AFTERNOON. SW/V TROUGH SWINGS THROUGH THE OH VALLEY
THU NIGHT AND HAVE WENT WITH CHANCE POPS FOR SNOW SHOWERS MOST
ZONES...WITH LIKELY (60%) OVER THE FAR SE AS THERE WILL BE DECENT
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...BUT NOT REALLY GREAT LIFT.  GIVEN CONTINUED
UPSLOPE FLOW INTO FRI HAVE CONTINUED WITH CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS
OVER THE NE 2/3 OF THE CWA.  MAV NUMBERS SEEM BEST IN THE SHORT TERM.

SAT INTO SUN LOOKS MAINLY DRY...BUT A WARM FRONT LIFTING ACROSS THE
OH VALLEY SAT NIGHT WILL BRING THE CHANCE FOR A FEW SPRINKLES OR A
COUPLE OF SHOWERS OVER THE NW. FOR NOW HAVE MENTIONED ONLY
SPRINKLES.

EXTENDED...KEPT SUN DRY AS PRECIP SHOULD HOLD OFF UNTIL EVENING IN
ALL ZONES. ARCTIC FRONT CROSSES THE REGION ON MON AND THERE SHOULD
BE SOME SHOWERS AHEAD OF IT AS LIMITED GULF MOISTURE WORKS INTO THE
SYSTEM.  COLD AIR MOVES IN BY MON NIGHT AND THERE WILL BE A CHANCE
OF SNOW SHOWERS GIVEN GOOD UPSLOPE FLOW AND FETCH OFF OF LK MI.
ANOTHER DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE
REGION ON TUE CONTINUING THE CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS.  A FEW FLURRIES
MAY LINGER INTO WED OVER THE NE 2/3 OF THE CWA ON WED AND HAVE
WORDED ZONES AS SUCH.  MEX GUIDANCE LOOKS A LITTLE COOL ON SUN AND
HAVE GONE A COUPLE OF DEGREES WARMER THAN IT.  MEX GUIDANCE TEMPS
LOOK A LITTLE WARM FOR TUE INTO WED CONSIDERING THE CURRENT MRF RUN
IS ONE OF THE DEEPER SOLUTIONS WITH THE EASTERN TROUGH SO HAVE
UNDERCUT MEX NUMBERS ABOUT 3 DEGREES.

GFE/IFPS GRIDS...COORDINATED WITH MRX AND RLX AND GRIDS SEEM IN LINE.

.JKL...NONE.

PELTON

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:38 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Wolfe

When: February 20, 6:40 PM EST
Where: Wolfe County, Campton
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates: 37.733, -83.550

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.

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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: 5280569.