Hail, Howell
- When
- April 30, 10:30 AM CST
- Where
- Howell County, West Plains
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.733, -91.850
Hail in Missouri, April 30, 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
- 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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 30, 2:00 AM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 2:00 AM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 300 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 BROKEN ALTOCUMULUS DECK AND STRONG WAA ALOFT HELPING TO KEEP THINGS RATHER MILD THIS MORNING...WITH TRUE SURFACE WARM FRONT STILL ANALYZED ALONG THE RED RIVER. ISOLATED CONVECTION FROM FSM TO THE RED RIVER CONTINUES TO WEAKEN AS NOCTURNAL INVERSION INCREASES AND LOW LEVEL JET REMAINS FOCUSED WELL TO THE WEST ACROSS KS/OK PER PROFILER DATA. MID LEVEL CLOUD COVER SHOULD CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE THIS MORNING...WITH PARTIAL SUNSHINE AND LOW LEVEL JET EXPECTED TO HELP DRAW WARM FRONT NORTH...ESPECIALLY NOW THAT CONVECTION HAS WANED TO THE SOUTH. STRONG THETA-E ADVECTION ALOFT CONTINUES TO BE PROGGED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MO BY 18Z...AND INDICATIONS ARE THAT AN AREA OF CONVECTION WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THIS REGION THIS MORNING AND GRADUALLY SPREAD E ACROSS SOUTHERN MO THIS AFTERNOON. AMOUNT OF WARMING AND DEWPOINT POOLING THAT CAN OCCUR THIS MORNING WILL BE CRITICAL TO MODE OF CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL WOULD BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS FIRST ROUND OF STORMS WHICH SHOULD BE ELEVATED IN NATURE. HOWEVER...IF STORMS CAN BECOME ROOTED IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER WITH ENOUGH HEATING...THEN SUPERCELL STORMS WILL BE FAVORED AS LOW LEVEL SHEAR IS MARKEDLY ENHANCED WITH BACKED FLOW JUST NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT. A FEW ISOLATED TORNADOES WOULD BE POSSIBLE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT. TO THE WEST...SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SW KS TODAY AIDING IN STRONG LOW LEVEL THETA-E ADVECTION. WITH SOME CLEARING EXPECTED BEHIND INITIAL WAVE OF STORMS...CAPES BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON COULD EASILY APPROACH 3000 TO 4000 J/KG. SURFACE WARM FRONT SHOULD BE IN THE VICINITY OF SW MO/SE KS...AND SERVE AS THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM REDEVELOPMENT LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. SURFACE BASED CONVECTION APPEARS TO BE MORE FAVORED THIS GO AROUND...WITH A CONTINUED THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL. AGAIN ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT NEAR THE SURFACE WARM FRONT WHERE LOW LEVEL DIRECTIONAL SHEAR REMAINS STRONG AND LCL HEIGHTS ARE LOW. HAVE BUMPED UP TEMPERATURES AT LEAST A CATEGORY ALL AREAS FOR TODAY...ESPECIALLY THE FAR SOUTHWEST WHERE UPPER 70S WERE REALIZED YESTERDAY...AND SUNSHINE/850MB TEMPS APPROACHING 20C SHOULD EASILY SUPPORT LOWER 80S. ON WEDNESDAY...AVN/ETA STILL HAVE LARGE DIFFERENCES IN TRACK OF SURFACE LOW...WHICH WILL BE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY UNSEASONABLY STRONG NORTHERN STREAM POLAR VORTEX DROPPING SOUTH FROM MANITOBA INTO THE LOWER 48. AVN IS MUCH FURTHER WEST WITH DIGGING THIS UPPER SYSTEM...WHICH RESULTS IN DRAWING THE SURFACE LOW IN KS MUCH FURTHER NORTH AND WEST. ETA DEEPENS THIS SYSTEM FURTHER EAST...RESULTING IN A MORE FLAT/EASTERLY TRACK OF THE SURFACE LOW. THE DIFFERENCE IS LARGE...BOTH IN TERMS OF FORECAST TEMPERATURES AND ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER ALONG THE FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. HAVE LEANED TOWARD THE AVN WITH MUCH WARMER TEMPERATURES FOR THE SERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA (LOW TO MID 80S). THIS UNFORTUNATELY IS STARTING TO RESEMBLE THE SCENARIO OF 4/27...AND LETS ONLY HOPE THAT IT DOESNT PAN OUT. WILL CONTINUE WITH CHANCE POPS TOMORROW...WITH A SEVERE THREAT CERTAINLY LIKELY GIVEN PROGGED TEMPS/DWPTS AND STRONG KINEMATICS ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM. HAVE ALSO INCREASED WINDS TOMORROW GIVEN INCREASED GRADIENT AHEAD OF RAPIDLY DEEPENING SURFACE LOW. REST OF THE FORECAST IN EXCELLENT SHAPE WITH MUCH COOLER/DRIER AIR TO SPILL IN FOR THURSDAY/FRIDAY. STRONG SURFACE GRADIENT IN WAKE OF FRONTAL PASSAGE SHOULD KEEP WINDS RATHER BREEZY WED NIGHT...SO DID NOT GO AS COOL AS PREVIOUS FORECAST. STILL LOOKS LIKE READINGS IN THE 30S ARE LIKELY THURSDAY NIGHT...ALTHOUGH SOME MODIFICATION OF CANADIAN AIRMASS IS PRESENT IN MODEL SOLUTIONS...AND HOPEFULLY A FROST WILL BE AVOIDED. WARM AND BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS YET ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS TO THE WEST. ISC GRIDS HAVE BEEN SENT. .SGF...NONE. BOOKBINDER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 5:00 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-301800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 600 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI TODAY... * HAZARDOUS WEATHER THREATS... LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. ISOLATED TORNADOES. * THREAT AREAS AND TIMING... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44...FROM LATE MORNING INTO MID AFTERNOON. A SECOND ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND MOVE ACROSS THE MISSOURI OZARKS FROM THE LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. * DISCUSSION... A WARM FRONT CURRENTLY STRETCHING ALONG THE RED RIVER WILL BEGIN TO MOVE NORTH TODAY AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. A STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET WILL HELP TO DRIVE A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT...THAT WILL AFFECT MAINLY SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE FROM LATE MORNING INTO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL BE MAINLY CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. HOWEVER...WITH ENOUGH SUNSHINE AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN THIS MORNING...A FEW SURFACE BASED STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. STRONG LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR ALONG AND NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT WOULD SUPPORT DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. FURTHER WEST...SUFFICIENT DAYTIME HEATING WILL ALLOW THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME EXTREMELY UNSTABLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN THIS REGION...THEY WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS...AND A FEW TORNADOES POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OZARKS REGION THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION OUTLOOK... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI LATE THIS MORNING INTO MID AFTERNOON...AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. * EXTENDED OUTLOOK... THE THREAT FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE DAY WEDNESDAY AS A STRONG COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION. THE GREATEST SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND EAST OF ROUTE 65. BOOKBINDER THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 8:26 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
MOZ055-067>071-078>083-089>092-094>098-102>106-302000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 926 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 187...IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BARRY...BENTON...CAMDEN...CEDAR...CHRISTIAN...DADE...DALLAS...DENT... DOUGLAS...GREENE...HICKORY...HOWELL...LACLEDE...LAWRENCE...OREGON... OZARK...PHELPS...POLK...PULASKI...SHANNON...ST. CLAIR...STONE... TANEY...TEXAS...WEBSTER AND WRIGHT. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE AVA... BOLIVAR...BRANSON...CAMDENTON...FORT LEONARD WOOD...HOUSTON... LEBANON...MONETT...MOUNT VERNON...OSAGE BEACH...OZARK...ROLLA... SPRINGFIELD...STOCKTON AND WEST PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SS
Local storm report, Apr 30, 10:24 AM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1124 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0850 AM 4 NE OZARK MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 CHRISTIAN EVENT DURATION 3
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0920 AM 5 NE SPRINGFIELD MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 GREENE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0925 AM 2 W GOODHOPE MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 DOUGLAS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORTED QUARTER SIZE
HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.
0929 AM AVA MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0932 AM 2 S BATTLEFIELD MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 GREENE EVENT DURATION 5
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE.
QUARTER SIZE HAIL
COVERED THE GROUND.
0935 AM 1 S AVA MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0938 AM BATTLEFIELD MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 GREENE REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0939 AM OZARK MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 CHRISTIAN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0939 AM 2 S SPRINGFIELD MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 GREENE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0940 AM BILLINGS MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 CHRISTIAN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0940 AM CRANE MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 STONE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0941 AM BOLIVAR MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 POLK REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0942 AM MORRISVILLE MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 POLK REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0944 AM MORRISVILLE MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 POLK REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0944 AM BRIGHTON MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 POLK REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0945 AM UNION CITY MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 STONE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND. REPORTED BY HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.
0948 AM PLEASANT HOPE MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 POLK REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0950 AM 3 N WALNUT SHADE MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 TANEY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1005 AM OZARK MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 CHRISTIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL ALSO REPORTED
A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR
NIXA AT 956 AM LST.
1013 AM SOUTH FORK MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 HOWELL LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL REPORTED
QUARTER SIZE HAIL
COVERING THE GROUND.
1016 AM POTTERSVILLE MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 HOWELL
1038 AM 2 S WEST PLAINS MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 HOWELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1050 AM ISABELLA MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 OZARK REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
1055 AM 1 N GAINESVILLE MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 OZARK REPORTED BY MEDIA.
JLTLocal storm report, Apr 30, 10:28 AM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1128 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0945 AM WASOLA MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 OZARK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:28 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 30, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, April 30, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, April 30, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, April 30, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 30, 2002
- Flood in Puerto Rico, April 30, 2002
More
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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: 5292223.