2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 6, 2:05 PM EST, 7 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 305 PM EDT MON MAY 06 2002 MAIN FORECAST PROBLEMS IN THE NEAR TERM ARE FOR POPS TONIGHT...AND AGAIN ON TUE NIGHT...AND FOR MAX TEMPS ON TUE. THE AREA OF CLEARING ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN HAS RESULTED IN SOME SFC BASED INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH LAPS SOUNDINGS SHOWING LIS IN THE -6 TO -8 RANGE THERE ATTM. SFC COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING INTO THIS AREA THIS EVENING AND COULD FOCUS SOME ORGANIZED CONVECTION. SOME QUESTION AS TO THE EXTENT AND COVERAGE OF THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO GRR CWA...WHERE CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO BREAK UP THIS AFTERNOON. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS AS IT APPEARS AT LEAST SCATTERED COVERAGE IS LIKELY WITH THE APPROACH OF THE FRONT. AS FOR SVR...ENVIRONMENTAL WINDS ARE NOT OVERLY IMPRESSIVE...WITH 50 KT WINDS CONFINED TO AOA 10 KFT. FREEZING LEVEL IS AOA 10 KFT...SO IT WOULD TAKE SOME HEFTY STORMS TO PRODUCE SVR HAIL. THE COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE SE CWA AROUND 12Z TUE...AND WILL NOT CARRY POPS FOR THE SECOND PERIOD. SHOULD BE PLENTY OF STRATUS BEHIND THE FRONT DURING MORNING...WITH SFC HIGH NOSING IN AND DRYING OCCURRING BY AFTERNOON. CLOUDS SHOULD BREAK UP WITH SKIES BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY AFT 18Z. BIG DISPARITY BETWEEN FWC AND MAV TEMPS. WILL GO CLOSER TO THE COOLER MAV...AS SHALLOW COOL AIR MASS SHOULD WORK IN BY THE TIME THE CLOUDS BREAK UP BEHIND THE FRONT. FRONT MOVES BACK AS A WARM FRONT LATE TUE NIGHT. GOOD OVERRUNNING SETS UP AS LOW LEVEL JET INTERSECTS THE FRONT. WILL BRING IN LIKELY POPS LATE FOR SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA...AND GO CHANCE NORTH. MAIN SLUG OF QPF COMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING AS WARM FRONT MARCHES ACROSS CWA. WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS GOING FOR WED NIGHT AS SFC LOW MOVES THROUGH AND COLD FRONT APPROACHES. OSTUNO EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION... NEGATIVELY-TILTED UPPER TROUGH SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THURSDAY MORNING...BRINGING AN END TO EARLY MORNING SHOWERS AS THE SFC COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. STRONG COLD ADVECTION NOTED BY 12Z AVN BEHIND THIS SFC FRONT...WITH 850MB TEMPS FALLING BELOW ZERO DEG C THURSDAY AFTERNOON. CLOSED UPPER LOW WILL REMAIN NORTH OF LAKE SUPERIOR...THEREFORE IT APPEARS THE WRAP-AROUND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BYPASS OUR FORECAST AREA TO THE NORTH. WILL FEATURE IMPROVING SKY CONDITIONS WITH FALLING TEMPS THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THE FROST/FREEZE POTENTIAL FOR THURSDAY NIGHT DOES NOT LOOK AS SIGNIFICANT...DUE TO SFC WIND SPEEDS WHICH MAY STAY UP DUE TO PRESSURE GRADIENT ACCORDING TO 12Z AVN. AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES TO MID-ATLANTIC BY 12Z SATURDAY...SFC FLOW BECOMES SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST AND UPPER FLOW SWRLY. PREFER SLOWER AND MORE AMPLIFIED DEPICTION OF NEXT UPSTREAM UPPER WAVE AND WILL HOLD OFF ON PRECIP UNTIL SUNDAY...PER ECMWF. PASSAGE OF UPPER WAVE AND SFC FRONT SHOULD BRING DRIER AND SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR INTO THE REGION BY MONDAY. THIS FRONT WILL BE OF PACIFIC ORIGIN...THEREFORE TEMPERATURES BY MONDAY SHOULD BE NEAR CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMALS. GREENE .GRR...NONE.
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:10 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A severe thunderstorm produced three quarters inch hail in Mears, and one inch hail was reported three miles west of Mears.
Three quarters to one inch hail was reported in Shelby.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, May 2002
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: 5291575, 5291576.