Hail, Knox
- When
- July 28, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Knox County, 5 mi S of Hurdland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.083, -92.300
Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail south of Hurdland.
Hail in Missouri, July 28, 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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 12:30 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 12:30 PM CST, 5 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 130 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002 850 THIS MRNG SHOWD MSTR POOLED FM CNTRL OK ACRS MO INTO NRN IN WITH 16-18C DEWPTS. ISOLD CONVCTN CONTS ATTM ACRS NE MO WITH MST OF THE ACTIVITY LINED UP ACRS NRN IL. NGM AND ETA ARE FAIRLY SMLR IN FCSTG S/WV TO MOVE ACRS NRN MO ON MON AS WK FNT DROPS INTO THE N PTN OF THE STATE. NGM AND AVN FCST WK FNT TO PUSH THRU THE RGN WHILE ETA HANGS UP FNT ACRS THE AREA. MSAS AT 18Z INDICATED BEST LOW LVL MSTR CNVGC HAS INCRSD FM E CNTRL PTN INTO N CNTRL MO WITH BEST CNVGC ACRS KS. LAPS DATA INDICATES NO APPARENT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY TO FOCUS ANY SGNFNT DVLPMNT ON. SFC DEWPTS RMN IN THE LOW-MID 70S WITH THE HEAT INDEX MAINLY IN THE 100-105 RANGE. IN THE EXTNDD PD, THE MRF, UKMET AND ECMWF ARE FAIRLY SMLR AT H5 LT IN THE WEEK WITH HUGE RDG FM THE CNTRL/SRN PLNS INTO THE MID MS VALLEY. GUID TEMPS APPEAR TOO LOW IN VIEW OF UPR HI. .STL...NONE
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 207 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:27 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
- Heat in Maryland, July 28 to 29, 2002
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 28 to 30, 2002
- Heat in Maryland, July 28 to 30, 2002
- Tornado in New York, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 28, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 28, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 28, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, July 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: 5304571.