Hail, Clay
- When
- June 2, 5:22 PM EST
- Where
- Clay County, Manchester
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.150, -83.750
Hail in Kentucky, June 2, 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 2, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 330 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002 CURRENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM FOR ALL OF OUR CWA. CONVECTION MOVING SE ALONG BOUNDARY WITH REPORTS OF SEVERE HAIL...TREES DOWN...AND HEAVY RAIN. THINGS SHOULD QUIET DOWN THIS EVENING...CHC POPS FOR THE EARLY EVE CONVECTION. MON WILL BE JUST AS UNSTABLE...BUT WITH THE FRONT TOO OUR NORTH...POPS WILL BE JUST SLIGHT CHANCE. LOW CHANCE POPS TUE...FRONT STILL TO NORTH THOUGH. STRETCHED OUT SYSTEM/TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA STARTING LATE WED. UNCERTAIN EXTENDED: BIG CHANGE FROM GOING FORECAST WITH THE DRAMATIC SWING TO A FASTER/DRYER EVOLUTION. HPC AND OTHERS LIKE THE FRONT THROUGH OUR CWA BY THU WITH A DRY WEEKEND. CONSENSUS IS THAT THE 06Z AVN/ 00Z MRF ARE NOT HANDLING THE SITUATION WELL. DISCREPANCIES SEEN ACROSS THE BOARD AMONGST MODELS. MRF DEVELOPS A CUT OFF LOW IN THE SE U.S....LINGERING THE PRECIP OVER EASTERN KY. ECMWF ON THE OTHER HAND TAKES TROUGH QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST AND RIDGING BUILDING OVER OUR AREA BY SAT. A COMPROMISE LOOKS GOOD...BOTH MODELS ON EXTREME SIDE. ENSEMBLES CLEARLY SHOW THE UNCERTAINTY. AS FOR TEMPS...OPMRF DROPPING TEMPS TO AS LOW AS UPPER 60S FOR FRI...ALTHOUGH MRF ENSEMBLES SHOW THIS TO BE THE OUTLIER. WILL GO IN BETWEEN ENSEMBLE MEAN AND OPMRF...WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH CURRENT FORECAST. QUICK GLANCE AT 12Z/AVN LOOKS BETTER...FITS FORECAST BETTER...LOOKS MORE REASONABLE. IFPS/GFE... POPULATED FIRST 60 HOURS WITH MESOETA WINDS/ TEMPS/ DEWPOINTS...ADJUSTED EXTENDED AS DISCUSSED ABOVE. WORK ZONES WILL BE AVAILABLE BEFORE TOO LONG IN THE AFOS PRODUCT SDFOZFJKL. .JKL...NONE. OUDEMAN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:35 PM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
335 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0320 PM TURKEY FOOT KY .88 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 JACKSON LASTED FOR FIVE
MINUTES.
REPORTED BY
GENERAL PUBLIC.
MHLocal storm report, Jun 2, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
400 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0140 PM IRVINE KY 1.50 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 ESTILL REPORTED BY
GENERAL PUBLIC.
MHLocal storm report, Jun 2, 4:35 PM EST, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
535 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM IRVINE KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 ESTILL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0515 PM MCKEE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/02/02 JACKSON TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
MHLocal storm report, Jun 2, 4:42 PM EST, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
542 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM 1 S SANDGAP KY 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY
GENERAL PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:50 PM EST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
550 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0341 PM IRVINE KY FLASH FLOOD
06/02/02 ESTILL *** 1 DEAD ***
ONE PERSON DIED FROM FLASH
FLOODING ALONG WAGERSVILLE
ROAD. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
MHLocal storm report, Jun 2, 5:00 PM EST, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR ERRONEOUS DROWNING REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
600 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0341 PM IRVINE KY FLASH FLOOD
06/02/02 ESTILL *** 1 INJURED ***
ONE PERSON RESCUED FROM
FLASH FLOODING ALONG
WAGERSVILLE ROAD.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
MHThe radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:19 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
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 2 to 6, 2002
- Wildfire in New Jersey, June 2 to 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 2, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 2 to 4, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 2 to 10, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, June 2, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 2, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Kentucky, June 2 to 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 2, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wyoming, June 2, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 2, 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: 5302171.