Hail in Kentucky, May 1, 2002

Name: Hail in Kentucky, May 1, 2002
Start: 2002-05-01T01:30
End: 2002-05-01T01:30
Location: Kentucky

May 1, 2002 · NWS PAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 May 1, 1:00 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 1:00 AM CST, 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
200 AM CDT WED MAY 1 2002

PRIMARY FORECAST CHALLENGE REMAINS THE INCOMING FRONTAL SYSTEM AND
ITS SVR WX THREAT. NEW SWODY1 HAS MOST OF FA IN MDT RISK...WITH
HIGHEST THREAT AREA INVOF SFC LOW. BUT THERE ARE TWO ROUNDS OF WX TO
CONTEND WITH ON THE ZONE PACKAGE.

1ST BOUT OF PCPN IS DEPARTING AM MCS...NORTH OF WARM FRONT ANAYLYZED
FM CNTL OK-CNTL AR-NRN MS AT 06Z. 88D SHOWS BULK OF THIS PCPN
PUSHING THRU ERN PTNS FA AT 07Z...AND IR LOOPS REVEAL LTL
DEVELOPMENT IN ITS WAKE. ETA PERHAPS HAS BEST HANDLE ON THIS
FEATURE...GIVEN AVN AND NGM ARE TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH MOISTURE AND DO
NOT DEPICT THE MCS DEPARTURE AS SHARPLY. AM THEREFORE INCLINED TO
LEAN PACKAGE MORE TOWARD ETA SOLUTION...ALTHOUGH ALL SYNCHRONIZE
THEIR SOLUTIONS BY PM/EVENING FRONTAL PASSAGE/MAIN SVR THREAT. WL
WAIT TIL PRESS TIME FOR ANY AM MENTION FOR ERN ZONES...THEN FOCUS ON
LATE DAY/EARLY NIGHT THREAT.

AFT AM BOUT...WARM FRONT RETURNS NORTH AND TDS ALREADY IN L60S SOUP
UP INTO U60S/NR 70F. SHEAR LAYER DEEPENS AND LOWER TROP DESTABILIZATION
CONTINUES THRU THE DAY...WITH 00Z THU INDICES ALL INDICATING A
HIGHLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. ABOUT THE ONLY NEGATING FACTOR IS THE MID LVL
WARMING THAT WL OCCUR WITH WARM FROPA...AS H7 10C READINGS BUMP INTO
SRN PTNS FA. THIS COULD RESULT IN MORE SCT CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT
INITIALLY...AND THEREFORE WEVE TWEEKED BACK DAYTIME (PM) POPS (AM
POPS SCENARIO NOT WITHSTANDING). ACTUALLY IT COULD BE EERILY QUIET
FOR MUCH OF THE DAY...WITH NEW MODEL SOLUTIONS ALL INDICATING UP TO
6 HR SLOWER DEVELOPMENT OF SFC LOW/FROPA COMPARED TO YDAY AT THIS
TIME. AS A RESULT...HAVE SHIFTED PRIMARY EMPHASIS LATER AND
INCREASED POPS IN THE WED NIGHT PERIOD CONSIDERABLY. WHILE WELL
MAINTAIN GOING STRONG-SVR STORM MENTION TODAY INTO TONIGHT...BELIEVE
HIGHEST SVR THREAT WL BE IMMEDIATELY POST 00Z AS SURFACE LOW
DEVELOPS AND RACES EAST ACROSS PAH FA WITH ITS ATTENDANT COLD FRONT.

WL LIKEWISE LINGER SMALL POP INTO THU AS BOTH ETA/AVN DEPICT HIGH
POST FRONTAL MOISTURE SWING AROUND BACK SIDE. SLOWER SOLUTION ALSO
RESULTS IN EARLY AM LINGER OF THUNDER SE-MOST PTNS FA. OTHERWISE WL
AWAIT NEW EXTENDED GUIDANCE FOR ANY NEEDED MODIFICATIONS...BUT MAIN
EMPHASIS IS ON THE NEAR TERM.

MAIN GUIDANCE DIFFERENCE IS IN POST FRONTAL TEMPS...AND BELIEVE
ZONAL UPR FLOW PATTERN AND SYNOPTIC EXPECTATION ENCOURAGES USE OF
WARMER MOS OVERALL.

.PAH...NONE.
DH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 30, 9:05 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1005 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002

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

1000 PM    CLINTON                   KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/02   HICKMAN                        REPORTED BY HICKMAN
                                          COUNTY DES OFFICE

Local storm report, Apr 30, 9:05 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO DATES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1005 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002

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

1000 PM    CLINTON                   KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02   HICKMAN                        REPORTED BY HICKMAN
                                          COUNTY DES OFFICE

Local storm report, Apr 30, 9:12 PM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1012 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002

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

1000 PM                              KY   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/30/02   HICKMAN                        3 MILES EAST OF HICKMAN
                                          ALONG HIGHWAY 58 EAST.
                                          SPOTTER RELAYED THAT HAIL
                                          WAS SMALLER THAN GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE. REPORTED BY HICKMAN
                                          COUNTY DES OFFICE.

Local storm report, Apr 30, 9:12 PM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1012 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002

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

1000 PM                              KY   1.50 INCH HAIL
04/30/02   HICKMAN                        3 MILES EAST OF HICKMAN
                                          ALONG HIGHWAY 58 EAST.
                                          SPOTTER RELAYED THAT HAIL
                                          WAS SMALLER THAN GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE. REPORTED BY HICKMAN
                                          COUNTY DES OFFICE.

Local storm report, Apr 30, 10:28 PM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1128 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002

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

1010 PM    PILOT OAK                 KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/02   GRAVES                         REPORTED BY GRAVES COUNTY
                                          DES.

1015 PM    CUBA                      KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/02   GRAVES                         REPORTED BY GRAVES COUNTY
                                          DES.

1020 PM    4E WINGO                  KY   WIND DAMAGE
05/30/02   GRAVES                         SEVERAL TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY GRAVES COUNTY DES.

1015 PM    WATER VALLEY              KY   WIND DAMAGE
05/30/02   GRAVES                         SEVERAL TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY GRAVES COUNTY DES.

DLL

Local storm report, Apr 30, 10:28 PM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO DATES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1128 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002

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

1010 PM    PILOT OAK                 KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02   GRAVES                         REPORTED BY GRAVES COUNTY
                                          DES.

1015 PM    CUBA                      KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02   GRAVES                         REPORTED BY GRAVES COUNTY
                                          DES.

1020 PM    4E WINGO                  KY   WIND DAMAGE
04/30/02   GRAVES                         SEVERAL TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY GRAVES COUNTY DES.

1015 PM    WATER VALLEY              KY   WIND DAMAGE
04/30/02   GRAVES                         SEVERAL TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY GRAVES COUNTY DES.

DLL

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Christian

When: May 1, 1:30 AM CST
Where: Christian County, Hopkinsville
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.850, -87.483

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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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kentucky in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, May 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: 5297044.