Hail in Missouri, April 19, 2002

Name: Hail in Missouri, April 19, 2002
Start: 2002-04-19T15:00
End: 2002-04-19T15:00
Location: Missouri

April 19, 2002 · NWS PAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 12:40 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 12:40 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
140 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

MAIN CONCERN FOR THIS FORECAST CONTINUES TO BE CONVECTION THROUGH
SUNDAY EVENING...AND THEN THE DEGREE OF COOLING FOR MONDAY.

LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
EVANSVILLE TRI STATE AREA SEEMS TO BE TIED TO GOOD WARM ADVECTION
PATTERN.  MEANWHILE...MORE ISOLATED LARGE STRONG/SEVERE STORMS WERE
APPROACHING SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.  EXPECT THE CLUSTER TO THE NORTHEAST
TO MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY ISSUANCE TIME...WITH POSSIBLY SOME
LINGERING RAINS IN THE FAR EAST.  HOWEVER...THE STORMS OVER
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ARE LIKELY TO BE A FLY IN THE OINTMENT INTO THE
EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS OR WESTERN KENTUCKY.

OTHERWISE TONIGHT...MOST OF THE AREA SHOULD BE DRY INTO THE EARLY
MORNING HOURS...WHEN THE FRONT FINALLY MOVES INTO THE AREA WITH
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND BEHIND IT.  WILL GO WITH
OCCASIONAL WORDING AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE NORTH...WHILE SOUTHERN
ZONES WILL BE DEPENDENT ON THE TRENDS THIS AFTERNOON.  THE MESOETA
AND AVN ARE IN AGREEMENT IN PUSHING THE FRONT THROUGH THE ENTIRE
AREA BY AROUND 18Z SATURDAY...SO WILL POST LIKELY POPS THROUGHOUT
THE AREA FOR SATURDAY.

FOR SATURDAY NIGHT THE FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY AND MAY BEGIN TO
MOVE BACK TO THE NORTH LATE.  WILL SEE LIKELY POPS AGAIN...PRIMARILY
LATE...ACROSS THE NORTHERN ZONES...WITH CHANCE POPS SOUTH.  WILL
KEEP SIMILAR POP ARRANGEMENT FOR SUNDAY...AS THE WARM FRONT WILL BE
ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE AREA AND THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BY LATE AFTERNOON.  LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING WILL LIKELY BE OUR BEST CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER AS THE COLD FRONT SWEEPS ACROSS THE AREA.

WILL MENTION HEAVY RAINFALL FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WITH LIKELY OR
BETTER POPS.  COULD CONTINUE TO SEE HEAVY RAIN THROUGH SUNDAY
EVENING...BUT WILL NOT MENTION IT BEYOND THE FIRST TWO PERIODS.  A
FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NECESSARY...BUT AM NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH IN THE
EVOLUTION OF THE PRECIPITATION TO ISSUE IT AT THIS TIME.

THE EXTENDED PERIODS WILL NOT BE DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT FROM CURRENT
FORECAST...BUT MAY SEE SOME WRAPAROUND CLOUDS AND COOLER
TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE EVV AREA ON MONDAY...AS AN UPPER TROUGH DIGS
FURTHER SOUTH TO OUR EAST THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED.  RAPID WARM UP
IS IN STORE FOR TUESDAY WITH ANOTHER SHOT AT CONVECTION FOR
WEDNESDAY.  THE END OF THE WEEK LOOKS MILD AND DRY.

GENERALLY WENT NEAR THE WARMER MAV GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT THE
FORECAST...AND EVEN WENT A BIT ABOVE IT FOR SUNDAYS HIGHS.

.PAH...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 12:31 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
131 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0120 PM    FORT BRANCH               IN   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   GIBSON                         REPORTED BY GIBSON COUNTY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE

Local storm report, Apr 19, 12:55 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
155 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    OAKLAND CITY              IN   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   GIBSON                         REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTERS

Local storm report, Apr 19, 1:36 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
236 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0230 PM    GLENALLEN                 MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   BOLLINGER                      REPORTED BY BOLLINGER
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0231 PM    PIEDMONT                  MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   WAYNE                          REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTERS

0238 PM    3S MARBLE HILL            MO   2.50 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   BOLLINGER                      REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTERS

Local storm report, Apr 19, 1:49 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
249 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0236 PM    1N LUTESVILLE             MO   1.50 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   BOLLINGER                      REPORTED BY BOLLINGER
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0236 PM    PIEDMONT                  MO   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   WAYNE                          REPORTED BY WAYNE COUNTY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE

Local storm report, Apr 19, 2:15 PM CST, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
315 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0311 PM    2N ADVANCE                MO   FUNNEL CLOUD
04/19/02   STODDARD                       REPORTED BY EOC

Local storm report, Apr 19, 2:45 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
345 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0327 PM    3N BELL CITY              MO   FUNNEL CLOUD
04/19/02   STODDARD                       REPORTED BY EOC

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:58 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Stoddard

When: April 19, 3:00 PM CST
Where: Stoddard County, 1 mi S of Brownwood
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.067, -89.950

Golf ball size hail fell on BB Highway just south of Brownwood.

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 Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, April 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: 5293387.