Name: Hail in Missouri, August 19, 2002
Start: 2002-08-19T19:00
End: 2002-08-19T19:00
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $15,000
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.

A tree fell on a home north of Bolivar causing roof damage.

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 Aug 19, 1:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
245 PM CDT MON AUG 19 2002

WERE GETTING QUITE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH CU DEVELOPING IN
AREA OF SURFACE BASED CAPES AROUND 3500 J/KG AND LIS AT -6.
HOWEVER...CAP IS STILL HOLDING TOUGH. EXPECT FIRST STORMS TO BREAK
THE CAP NEAR OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM NEVADA TO SOUTH OF OSAGE BEACH.
BASED ON DEWPOINT OBS...FRONT STILL LIES WELL NORTH OF THE OZARKS.

STALLED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD WILL DICTATE
DISTRIBUTION OF POPS FOR TONIGHT. HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT POSSIBLE
MCS TRACKING NEAR THE FRONT OVER CENTRAL MO OVERNIGHT. LATEST ETA
OUTPUT SHOWS MOST LIKELY AREA FOR MCS DEVELOPMENT OVER WESTERN
KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA IN VICINITY OF DEVELOPING LOW LEVEL
JET AND STRONG 850 MB WARM AIR ADVECTION. HOWEVER LATEST MESOETA
SHOWS ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVING INTO THE REGION OVERNIGHT. FOR NOW
WILL HANG ON TO CHANCE POPS ALL NIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN ZONES...BUT
WILL TAPER OFF THIS EVENING FOR THE SOUTH.

MAY ALSO HAVE SOME LINGERING CONVECTION TUESDAY MORNING.
THEREAFTER...STALLED FRONT RETURNS NORTH AS A WARM FRONT AND WASHES
OUT AS 70+ DEWPOINTS ADVECT RAPIDLY NORTH TOMORROW MORNING/AFTERNOON
IN RESPONSE TO DEEPENING LEE TROUGH OVER EASTERN CO. WITH RELATIVELY
WEAK CAP AND POSSIBLE MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES AROUND...WILL HANG ON TO
A 30 POP FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN ZONES FOR THE AFTERNOON.
THEREAFTER...SHOULD SEE SOME CAP STRENGTH INCREASE AS UPPER HIGH
BUILDS INTO THE AREA.

WILL CONTINUE WITH DRY FORECAST FOR THE REST OF THE WORK WEEK AND
BRING POPS BACK IN ON SATURDAY...AS AVN SHOWS DECENT CONSISTENCY
WITH FROPA AS RIDGE BUILDS TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST FLOW EDGES INTO
THE REGION.

NO DRASTIC CHANCES TO TEMPERATURES THIS WEEK...JUST PLAN ON GOING A
FEW DEGREES COOLER OVER THE EAST ON TUESDAY AND OVER THE ENTIRE AREA
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

INITIAL ISC GRIDS ARE OUT. WILL LIKELY TWEEK POPS/WEATHER GRIDS FOR
TUESDAY TO PROLONG PRECIP IN THE EAST.

.SGF...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 19, 6:35 PM CST, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
735 PM CDT MON AUG 19 2002

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

0723 PM    1 E GROVESPRING           MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/19/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0728 PM    3 N GROVESPRING           MO   .88 INCH HAIL
08/19/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

Local storm report, Aug 19, 7:00 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
800 PM CDT MON AUG 19 2002

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

0745 PM    3 N HARTVILLE             MO   WIND DAMAGE
08/19/02   WRIGHT                         TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0750 PM    WAYNESVILLE               MO   .75 INCH HAIL
08/19/02   PULASKI                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0758 PM    WAYNESVILLE               MO   1 INCH HAIL
08/19/02   PULASKI                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Polk

When: August 19, 7:00 PM CST
Where: Polk County, 1 mi N of Bolivar
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 37.633, -93.417

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

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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: 5313356.