Hail, St. Bernard
- When
- May 29, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- St. Bernard County, Arabi
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 29.950, -90.000
Hail in Louisiana, May 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 29, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 300 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2002 FINALLY...A SYNOPTIC PATTERN DEVELOPING...AS ADVERTISED FOR SEVERAL DAYS...WHICH SHOULD PRODUCE RAINFALL OVER MUCH OF THE AREA DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS. ALTHOUGH PRECIP WATER VALUES HAVE BEEN BELOW NORMAL THEY SHOULD GRADUALLY INCREASE TO AROUND 1.5 INCHES IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. BROAD UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING WITH MINOR SPOKES OF ENERGY ROTATING AROUND THE SYSTEM WILL DRIFT SLOWLY SWD OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THIS WILL BE DUE TO HEIGHTS RISING FROM THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ROCKIES EWD INTO THE PLAINS EFFECTIVELY CUTTING OFF THE UPPER SYSTEM FROM THE NORTHERN STREAM OF WLYS. THE UPPER LOW SHOULD EVENTUALLY DRIFT INTO THE NRN GULF SOUTH OF LA BUT STILL BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE LOWER MS VALLEY WEA OVER THE WEEKEND. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS MAY AVERAGE 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER AMOUNTS DUE TO SLOW MOVING STORMS. MCB 65/83/64/85 3523 BTR 67/82/65/86 4523 MSY 68/83/67/86 3523 GPT 68/83/68/85 2523 .NEW...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 05
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Blizzard in Washington, May 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, May 29 to 30, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 29, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, May 29, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 29, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 29, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 29, 2002
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, 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: 5300254.