Name: Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2002
Start: 2002-06-17T19:55
End: 2002-06-17T19:55
Location: Massachusetts

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 happened

The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.

A small cluster of severe thunderstorms dropped dime sized hail in Milford and Medfield.

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 Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 1:15 PM EST, 6 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 1:15 PM EST, 6 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
215 PM EDT MON JUN 17 2002

SHORT TERM (TNGT-TUE):  SCTD SHWRS/TSTMS HAVE DVLPD UPSTREAM ACRS
NYS/PA...MOST OF IT CONCENTRATED FROM BUF-PIT ATTM.  BOTH ETA/RUC TRY
TO MAINTAIN THIS ACTVTY AS IT HEADS E LATE THIS AFTN...REACHING WRN
PART OF FA AFT 21Z.  PCPN HAS QUITE A DISTANCE TO TRAVEL TO MAKE
IT THIS FAR E BEFORE SUNSET...BUT INCRSG TT AND TQ INDICES INTO ERLY
TNGT SUGGEST AT LEAST REMNANT SHWRS WL MAKE IT IN HERE.  ADDTL WDLY
SCT SHWRS/TSTMS PRBLY WL FORM LATE THIS AFTN MNLY IN CT VLY AS
WELL...AND ALREADY SOME WEAK ECHOES ARE SHOWING UP IN ERN NY.  SO AM
PLANNING TO CARRY MNTN INTO ERLY TNGT FOR AT LEAST WDLY SCTD
SHWRS/TSTMS...BUT WL MAKE FINAL CALL BASED UPON LATEST RADAR AND
INCORPORATE LATEST RUC INTO GFE.

OTRW NOT MUCH FOR TNGT ONCE ACTVTY DIMINISHES.

SHUD BE ANOTHER ROUND OF SCTD SHWRS/TSTMS TUE AFTN AND WL PLAY
SCENARIO SIMILAR TO TDA WITH WKNG LN CNVTCN DSIPTG IN I-95 CORRIDOR
LATE TUE AFTN.  INSTABY SOMEWHAT LWR THAN IT IS TDA AND CAPES
ARE LWR ALSO...BUT PASSING S/W SHUD BE ABLE TO INITIATE SOME CNVTCN
DURG AFTN NONETHELESS.

NO HEADLINES ON MARINE FCST WITH LGT WND FLO.

MID TERM (WED-THU):  PATTN QUIETS DOWN FOR MIDWK.  BASED UPON 12Z
ETA/AVN AM GOING TO REMOVE MNTN OF PCPN WED FM INTERIOR ZNS. DESPITE
SOME DIURNAL INSTABY AS UPR TROF IS SLO TO DEPART...NOT MUCH OF A
TRIGGER PRESENT TO GENERATE PCPN IN WEAK SFC FLO AS LL CONV REMAINS
LIMITED.  AVN THEN INDCTS WEAK BACKDOOR FNT DROPPING S THU MRNG WHICH
IN ADDTN TO STABILIZING LO LVLS WL PREVENT TMPS FM GETTING TOO WARM
AS UPR RDGE BLDS TO W.  WL BACK OFF ON MAX TMPS THU GIVEN LL NE FLO.

LONG TERM (FRI-MON):  BIG QUESTION IS FCST FOR FRI AND BYD AND
CONFIDENCE IS NOT VERY HI ATTM.  PREVIOUSLY WAS LOOKING AT COUPLE OF
CDFNTS ADVANCING E FM GRTLKS...ONE FRI NGT/SAT AND NXT MON.  AS
HINTED AT PAST FEW RUNS BY AVN...IT NOW CUTS OFF UPR LO OFF MIDATLC
(IS THIS JUNE?) AS SFC LO ROTATES TWD CAPE COD AND SLWLY FILLS FRI.
THIS WUD BRING RAIN WITH INCRSG NE WND TO AT LEAST ERN PART OF FA FRI
AFTN/NGT...WITH LINGERING SHWRS AND DMNSHG WND SAT.  AVN NOW SHOWS
ENUF RDGG ON WRN PERIPHERY OF THIS SYS TO PREVENT FIRST CDFNT FM
GETTING ANY FARTHER E THAN GRTLKS SAT.  AM NOT GOING TO QUITE BUY
INTO AVN SOLN JUST YET GIVEN MODEL DISPARITY THAT FAR OUT...AND WL
ADJ ITS SOLN A LTL FARTHER S PER HPC...BUT FOR CONTINUITY AM GOING TO
MAINTAIN CHC SHWRS FRI NGT/SAT AND KEEP SUN DRY (BUT MOCLDY) THEN
HAVE ANOTHER CHC SHWRS MON WITH NEXT CDFNT.

.BOX...
CT...NONE.
MA...NONE.
NH...NONE.
RI...NONE.
MARINE...NONE.

JWD/BELK

The radar

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Worcester

When: June 17, 7:55 PM EST
Where: Worcester County, Milford
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 42.150, -71.517

Hail, Norfolk

When: June 17, 7:55 PM EST
Where: Norfolk County, Medfield
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 42.183, -71.300

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

More

Every storm in Massachusetts in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Massachusetts, 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: 5302852, 5302853.