Hail, Laclede
- When
- April 30, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Laclede County, 5 mi W of Lebanon
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 37.683, -92.750
Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
Nickel size hail was also reported in Lebanon.
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 happened
The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
Nickel size hail was also reported in Lebanon.
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, 1:19 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 1:19 PM CST, 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 219 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 BUSY DAY ACROSS THE CWA...STRONG/SEVERE TSRA FROM NEVADA TO UNO AND MOVING EAST...ALL NORTH OF WARM FRONT AND CAP. LOOKS LIKE WARM FRONT OVER SW MO AND TRAILING INTO NRN AR...AS DEWPOINTS IN LOW/MID 60S IN THIS AREA. WAITING FOR NEW WATCH TO COME SO CAN ADJUST ZONES FOR TONIGHT PACKAGE. DEPENDING ON WHERE THE WARM FRONT SETTLE IN WILL/COULD HAVE BIG RANGE IN TEMPERATURES ON WEDNESDAY. ALSO CLOUD COVER WILL ALSO PLAY A BIG PART. SO IN A NUTSHELL WILL GO COOLER IN NRN ZONES WITH WARMEST TEMPERATURES IN SRN ZONES ON WEDNESDAY. THINKING FWC/ETA MOS TEMPERATURES MAYBE TO WARM SO WILL GO WITH MAV. WILL GO MID 70S IN NRN ZONES TO AROUND 80 IN SWRN ZONES. BROADBRUSH A 50 POP FOR TONIGHT...WILL PUT 40 POPS IN FOR WEDNESDAY BASED ON QPF FIELDS AND 30 POPS FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT...MAINLY FOR EVENING HOURS. OTHERWISE STRONG COLD FRONT DUE INTO CWA WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY...MAY NOT GET OUT OF THE 50S IN NRN ZONES...ELSEWHERE LOW 60S LOOKS GOOD. FRIDAY MORNING COULD SEE SCATTERED FROST ESPECIALLY IN NRN ZONES...STAY TUNED. EXTENDED FORECAST DID NOT CHANGE MUCH..JUST TWEAKED TEMPERATURES A TAD AND INCLUDED PCPN ON TUESDAY...KEPT PCPN IN FOR SUNDAY/MONDAY AS WELL. ISC GRIDS WILL SENT BY 230 PM IF NOT SOONER. .SGF...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST/SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 3 PM. NEW WATCH EXPECTED SHORTLY. SS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 30, 12:45 PM CST, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
145 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 AM EL DORADO SPGS MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0905 AM 3 S SQUIRES MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0132 PM COLLINS MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 ST.CLAIR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Apr 30, 12:52 PM CST, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
152 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1035 AM 2 W THAYER MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 OREGON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Apr 30, 12:56 PM CST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
156 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0155 PM 1 N ADONIS MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 POLK REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Apr 30, 1:11 PM CST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
211 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0208 PM LOUISBURG MO 2 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 DALLAS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Apr 30, 1:23 PM CST, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
223 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0221 PM PLAD MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 DALLAS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Apr 30, 1:30 PM CST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
230 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0202 PM 4 SE ELKTON MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/02 HICKORY REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:28 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
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5292224.