Louisiana, 2002

Hail in Louisiana, May 2, 2002

May 2, 2002 · NWS SHV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 10:00 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 10:00 PM CST, 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1100 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002

WILL SEND A QUICK UPDATE FOR CONVECTIVE TRENDS AND TO ADJUST TEMPS
NORTH OF THE COLD FRONT. FRONT HAS JUST ABOUT STALLED SOUTH OF LFK TO
NEAR MLU. FRONT COULD POSSIBLY SINK A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH ACROSS NE
LA OVERNIGHT BUT BELIEVE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CONVECTION TO DRIVE IT
SOUTH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS E TX/NW LA/
SW AR BEHIND THE FRONT AND ANYTHING THAT DEVELOPS HAS THE CAPABILITY
TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. ALREADY HAD SUPERCELL SPLITS THIS EVENING AND
WITH DEEP LAYER SHEAR AS STRONG AS IT IS WITH INCREASING LOW LEVEL
JET TONIGHT...MULTICELL/SUPERCELL STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE
POSSIBLE. WILL NEED TO MONITOR STORMS FOR LOW LEVEL ROTATION AS WELL
WITH SRH BEING ENHANCED BY 1K WINDS FROM AN E TO NE DIRECTION VEERING
QUICKLY AROUND TO THE SOUTHWEST WITH HEIGHT. POP FORECAST LOOKS
PRETTY GOOD BUT MAY MAKE SOME CHANGES HERE AND THERE.

UPDATE OUT SHORTLY...13.

.SHV...NONE.

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:54 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Webster

When
May 2, 10:55 PM CST
Where
Webster County, Sibley
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
32.533, -93.300

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

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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: 5288338.