Hail, Lafayette
- When
- March 15, 8:05 PM CST to 8:10 PM CST
- Where
- Lafayette County, Oxford
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $110
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.367, -89.517
Hail in Mississippi, March 15, 2002
2 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
- $120
- 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 Mar 15, 3:20 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 3:20 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 320 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM MISSOURI BOOTHEEL THROUGH SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE ALONG THE FRONT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MID SOUTH BY 12Z. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AND COOLER TEMPS WL MOVE IN FOR SATURDAY. BY SATURDAY NIGHT AN IMPULSE IN THE FAST MOVING SOUTHWEST FLOW DRAGS THE FRONT BACK NORTH RESULTING IN THE CHANCE FOR RAIN. PRECIPITATION WILL MOVE OUT EARLY SUN BEFORE ANOTHER IMPULSE RESULTS IN MORE RAIN SUN NIGHT INTO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN MILD THOUGH. .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Union
- When
- March 15, 8:08 PM CST to 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, Etta
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.467, -89.200
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
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 15, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, March 15 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 15, 2002
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 15, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, March 15, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, March 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: 5286396, 5286397.