Hail, Lincoln
- When
- June 4, 4:58 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 3 mi NE of Silex
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.167, -91.033
Storm spotters reported nickel size hail.
Hail in Missouri, June 4, 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 Jun 4, 12:15 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 12:15 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 115 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 850 MSTR WAS POOLD THIS MRNG FM SW KS ACRS NW MO INTO NRN IL WITH MID TEEN DEWPTS. WIDESPREAD CONVCTN CONTS ACRS NW MO BCK INTO SE KS VCNTY OF THE FNT. MODELS ARE NOW FAIRLY SMLR IN FCSTG THE MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FNT TNGT AND WED - INTO THE BOOTHEEL BY LATE AFTN. EXPCT WIDESPRED CONVCTN ACRS THE CWA TNGT INTO NOON WED. ETA IS FCSTG SGNFNT VERT MTN ALG AN I-44 CORRIDOR AT 12Z WED ALG WITH DECENT FRNTL SCALE FRCGG. FRCGG SLIDES OFF TO THE SE BY WED EVE. ETA AND AVN ARE SMLR IN FCSTG KS IN THE MID TO UPR 30S ACRS THE AREA BY MIDN WITH HIER MSTR PUSHG OFF TO THE SE WED AFTN. LARGE SFC HI DOMINATES OUR WX PTRN INTO FRI WITH BLO NRML TEMPS AND LOW DEWPTS. IN THE EXTNDD PD, THE ECMWF AND UKMET ARE GETTING SMARTER AND COMING ARND TO THE MRFS SOLUTION AT H5. MODELS SMLR FOR SAT MRNG WITH CLOSED LOW OVR THE NRN ROCKIES OR PAC NW SYSTM SLIDG ACRS THE NRN PLNS OVR THE WEEKEND. MRF PUSHES STRNG COLD FNT ACRS THE RGN ON SUN WHICH SHOULD PRODUCE WIDESPREAD CONVCTN. .STL...NONE
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, June 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: 5298112.