Hail, Coahoma
- When
- July 17, 6:05 PM CST to 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Coahoma County, Clarksdale
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -90.583
Hail in Mississippi, July 17, 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
- $10
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 17, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 245 PM CDT WED JUL 17 2002 SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUE ACROSS MAINLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AND DIE OFF. NOT MUCH CHANGE IN OVERALL PATTERN FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION EXPECTED THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS MEM 75/91/75/92/75 342 MKL 71/90/71/91/72 342 JBR 72/89/73/92/73 442 TUP 73/92/72/93/73 222 .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:03 UTC.
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
- Heat in Missouri, July 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 17, 2002
- Wildfire in California, July 17, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Montana, July 17, 2002
- Hail in Nevada, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Hail in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 17, 2002
- Wildfire in Utah, July 17 to 31, 2002
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, July 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: 5311690.