Hail, Dunklin
- When
- August 18, 1:05 PM CST to 1:10 PM CST
- Where
- Dunklin County, Holcomb
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $100
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -90.033
Hail in Missouri, August 18, 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
- $100
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 18, 9:39 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 9:39 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1039 AM CDT SUN AUG 18 2002 WEAK SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY DENOTED BY AREA OF MID CLOUDS ALONG THE TN/MS BORDER. THIS FEATURE TRIGGERED SCT TSTMS ACRS PARTS OF W TN THIS MORNING. AIRMASS ACRS THE MID SOUTH STILL MOIST AND UNSTABLE. EXPECT CAP TO CONT TO WEAKEN AND AFTN DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR. WEAK SHORTWAVE SHOULD AID DEVELOPMENT ACRS W TN AND N MS. LARGE MCS ACRS MO IS MOVING EAST AND SHOULD NOT BOTHER THE AREA. HOWEVER...THE MCS PROBABLY WL SEND SOME BOUNDARIES INTO THE NRN SXNS OF THE CWFA AND THIS COULD HELP TRIGGER SOME STORMS. ANOTHER THING TO CONSIDER IS THE LARGE CIRRUS SHIELD MOVING INTO THE NRN SXNS. THIS MAY INHIBIT DEVELOPMENT...ESPECIALLY ACRS NE AR WHERE WEAK SHORTWAVE (ALREADY TO THE EAST) IS PROVIDING NO HELP. CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK. WL REMOVE AFTN WORDING AND LEAVE THE REST ALONE. .MEG...NONE SJM
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:07 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
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 18, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 18, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in Virginia, August 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, August 18, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 18, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 18, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 18, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 18, 2002
- Flash Flood in Missouri, August 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 18 to 20, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, August 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: 5315402.