Hail, Floyd
- When
- June 1, 5:37 PM EST
- Where
- Floyd County, Martin
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.567, -82.750
Hail in Kentucky, June 1, 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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 1, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 345 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2002 CONVECTION FIRING/DEVELOPING ON KY/WV BORDERS...ALONG WEAK BOUNDARY...SOME HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY SEVERE. WHERE IT HAS RAINED IN EASTERN KY TEMPS ARE IN THE MID 70....AND SLOWLY RECOVERING...OTHERWISE TEMPS IN THE MID 80S. WEST COAST TROUGH BEGINNING TO MOVE ONSHORE. WV SHOWS A PIECE OF ENERGY/SHORTWAVE INTO NV. IN THE TIME BEING...BOUNDARY TO MOVE NORTH OF OUR AREA IN ASSOCIATION WITH A LOW OVER THE PLAINS. UNTIL THAT BOUNDARY/FOCUSING MECHANISM IS OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD...CHANCES OF MAINLY AFTERNOON/ EARLY EVE SHRA/TS PERSIST. BY MONDAY THAT BOUNDARY LOOKS TO BE WELL TO OUR NORTH...THEREFORE NO POPS...BUT IT WILL BE A RATHER WARM DAY. PRECIP CHANCES RETURN ON WED WITH COLD FRONT TRYING TO PUSH THROUGH THE AREA AS THE MAIN LOW AND WEAKENS. SPECIFICS OF EXTENDED PERIOD PRECIP ARE DEPENDANT UPON HOW UPPER LOW IN THE GULF DECIDES TO /MERGE/ WITH THE TROUGH FROM THE WEST AND HOW NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STREAM FLOW WORKS WITH THINGS. THIS FORECAST WILL BE SIMILAR TO EARLIER FORECAST. WENT CLOSE TO MOS NUMBERS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A TAD LOWER FOR LOWS AND ONE CAT LOWER FOR SUN HIGHS. BROUGHT COOLER TEMPS IN ON WED. IFPS/GFE... POPULATED FIRST 60 HOURS WITH MESOETA WINDS/TEMPS/DEWPOINTS...GRIDS IN GOOD SHAPE. WORK ZONES WILL BE AVAILABLE BEFORE TOO LONG IN THE AFOS PRODUCT SDFOZFJKL. .JKL...NONE. OUDEMAN
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:37 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
- Heat in Illinois, June 1, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, June 1 to 4, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 1 to 6, 2002
- Tornado in Idaho, June 1, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, June 1, 2002
- Wildfire in Arizona, June 1 to 10, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 1, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Utah, June 1, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 1, 2002
- Drought in South Dakota, June 1 to 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 1, 2002
- Drought in Colorado, June 1 to 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, June 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: 5302156.