Hail, Lafayette
- When
- July 22, 12:10 PM CST to 12:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lafayette County, Oxford
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.367, -89.517
Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 22, 2002
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $10,000
- 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 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 22, 8:00 AM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 8:00 AM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 900 AM CDT MON JUL 22 2002 WEATHER PATTERN FINALLY LOOKS MORE LIKE TYPICAL MID-JULY WEATHER FOR THE MIDSOUTH. H5 SHOWS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE ONCE AGAIN IN CONTROL WITH HEIGHTS NEAR NORMAL. 12Z LZK AND OHX SOUNDINGS STILL INDICATE A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WITH AFTERNOON CAPES BETWEEN 3000 AND 5000 J/KG. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2 INCHES. SATELLITE ALREADY INDICATING SOME BUILDUP OF THE CLOUDS. KNQA INDICATING A COUPLE OF ECHOES OVER NORTHWEST MS GREATER THAN 20 DBZ. THUS THINK MENTION OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY IS WARRANTED. HIGHS IN THE LOWER AND MID 90S LOOK GOOD. .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:08 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Lafayette
- When
- July 22, 12:25 PM CST to 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Lafayette County, 1 mi NE of Oxford
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.383, -89.500
A radio tower and several trees were blown down.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Maryland, July 22 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, July 22, 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: 5311746, 5311747.