Hail in Mississippi, March 26, 2002

Name: Hail in Mississippi, March 26, 2002
Start: 2002-03-26T02:34
End: 2002-03-26T02:34
Location: Mississippi

March 26, 2002 · NWS LIX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 25, 8:33 PM CST, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:33 PM CST, 6 hours 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
833 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002

WEAK FLOW OFF THE GULF RESULTING IN DENSE FOG FORMING ALONG SOUTH MS
COAST. EXPECT AIRMASS TO DESTABILIZE AFTER MIDNIGHT AS CONVECTION
MOVES INTO THE AREA. WILL UPDATE ZONES IN NEXT FEW MINUTES.

.NEW...NONE.
LA...NONE.
MS...DENSDE FOG ADVZY...MS ZONES 80-81-82.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pike

When: March 26, 2:34 AM CST
Where: Pike County, Holmesville
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 31.200, -90.317

One inch dimater hail occurred along Highway 98.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Mississippi in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5286419.