Hail, Calloway
- When
- March 29, 5:11 PM CST to 5:13 PM CST
- Where
- Calloway County, 2 mi W of Lynn Grove
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.600, -88.467
Hail in Kentucky, March 29, 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 PM CONVECTION/SVR WX ASSOCIATED WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING ACROSS NRN PERIPHERY OF PAH FA. AIRMASS FRONT IS ENCOUNTERING IS WARM/MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE...WITH LAPS SHOWING EARLY PM LIS TO -2/-3. STILL AWAITING BREAKDOWN OF CAP FOR SURFACE BASED ACTIVITY...WHICH APPEARS TO BE STARTING AS LAPS 15-18Z TREND SHOWS SURFACE BASED CAPES INCREASING FM 300 TO 500 TO 600 J/KG. NEAR TERM CHALLENGE IS POPS ASSOCIATED WITH INCOMING FRONT. ALL MODELS HAVE SYSTEM THRU FA BY/SHORTLY AFT 00Z. WL WAIT TIL LAST MINUTE FOR COUNTY BREAK-OUT...ESPECIALLY REGARDING WATCH STATUS...BUT ANTICIPATE LINGERING SMALL EARLY EVENING CHC POP FOR DEPARTING FRONT SE SECTIONS. MODELS DISAGREE ON VIGOR OF PUSHING FRONT AND ITS ASSOCIATED MOISTURE THRU FA...WITH NGM LEAST AGGRESSIVE/ETA MOST AND AVN IN BETWEEN. WITH FLOW ALOFT BECOMING WLY-WNWLY...AM NOT TOO CONVINCED ON LONG-LIVED CLEAR-OUT...AND THUS WL TOE A MID-GROUND AND MAINTAIN SOME AT LEAST SOME CLOUDS THRU THE NEXT COUPLE PERIODS. BASICALLY EXPECT MOCLOUDY EARLY NIGHT...PTCLDY LATE NIGHT/EARLY SAT...AND THEN MOCLOUDY AGAIN LATE SAT-SAT NIGHT...BUT WL CHOOSE ONE OR THE OTHER DEPENDING ON WHERE THE GROUPING IS. NEXT CHALLENGE IS SAT NIGHT-SUN CHC PCPN...AND SIMILAR MODEL DISCREPANCY IS MAINTAINED. WHILE THE FLOW PATTERN SUGGESTS CONTINUED CLOUDS AM NOT AS CONVINCED ON THE PCPN CHC...AS EVEN THE MID ROAD AVN KEEPS VORT ENERGY AND MOST QPF TO THE SOUTH. WL THEREFORE ELIMINATE POPS NRN PERIPHERY BUT MAINTAIN CHC CAT POPS FOR THE SOUTH...PARTICULARLY SE PTNS...AS SURFACE SYSTEM EJECTS NE FM LWR MS VALLEY. NEW EXTENDED MODEL GUIDANCE NARROWS THE PCPN CHC TO TUE BUT BROAD UPR TROFFING KEEPS CLOUDS/COOLER WX IN ANOTHER DAY...MODERATING SOME TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK AS UPR TROF MOVES EAST AND SURFACE RIDGING COMES IN BEHIND IT. NOT A WHOLE LOT OF MODEL DISCREPANCY ON TEMPS SAVE FOR THE OBVIOUS LEANS GIVEN THEIR RESPECTIVE PREFERENCES ON THE SAT NIGHT-SUN PCPN CHC (NGM COLDER/WETTER). WL ADJUST FCST ACCORDINGLY THERE (SAT NIGHT-SUN)...MORE IN DIRECTION OF AVN BASED NOS...OTHERWISE ALL GUIDANCE GENERALLY IN AGREEMENT. .PAH...NONE. HUMPHREY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 29, 4:31 PM CST, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
431 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0408 PM BARDWELL KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 CARLISLE REPORTED BY CARLISLE
COUNTY DESLocal storm report, Mar 29, 4:42 PM CST, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
442 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0438 PM HICKMAN KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 FULTONSpecial weather statement, Mar 29, 4:45 PM CST, 26 minutes before
ILZ083-086-087-089>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ110>112-114- 300200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 445 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 48 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA...ALL OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND PORTIONS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY... ONLY THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE STILL UNDER TORNADO WATCH 48. IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... HICKMAN...FULTON...GRAVES...MARSHALL...CALLOWAY...LYON...TRIGG ...HOPKINS...CALDWELL...DAVIESS...MCLEAN...MUHLENBERG...CHRISTIAN AND TODD.
Local storm report, Mar 29, 4:50 PM CST, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
450 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM 1S POSSUM TROT KY 0.88 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 MARSHALL SPOTTER REPORTED HAIL ON
INTERSTATE 24Local storm report, Mar 29, 4:53 PM CST, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
453 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0451 PM 1W DRAFFENVILLE KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 MARSHALLLocal storm report, Mar 29, 4:59 PM CST, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
459 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM 2N WINGO KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 GRAVES REPORTED BY GRAVES CO
DESThe radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:12 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, March 29 to 30, 2002
- Tornado in Alabama, March 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, March 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, March 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 29 to 30, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, March 29, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Texas, March 29 to 30, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Tennessee, March 29 to 30, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, March 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, March 29, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, March 29, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, March 29, 2002
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, March 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: 5280539.