Hail, Washington
- When
- March 15, 1:48 AM CST
- Where
- Washington County, Potosi
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 37.950, -90.800
The public reported a brief period of golfball size hail in Potosi.
Hail in Missouri, March 15, 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 Mar 14, 3:55 PM CST, 9 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 3:55 PM CST, 9 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 355 PM CST THU MAR 14 2002 LIKE TRENDS IN GOING FCST...AND PLAN ON ONLY A FEW CHGS. ALL MDLS SEEM TO AGREE THAT CDFNT WL BE ON FAR SE EDGE OF CWFA BY ERY FRI MRNG...AND WL THEN CREEP EWD DURING THE DAY ON FRI. ATTM THERE IS NO PCPN ANYWHERE NR CWFA...AND SFC/LO LVL MSTR IS ADV NWD SLOWER THAN PROGGED BY MDLS. HWVR...HIER DWPTS ARE STILL PUSHING NWD...SO BY LTR TNGT THERE SHUD BE SUFFICIENT MSTR RETURN TO WARRANT CONTG THE CHC OF PCPN. WL ALSO KP WORDING OF THUNDER IN FAR S ZNS. MDLS WANT TO KP PCPN THRT ALG/AHD OF FNT ON FRI...BUT ALL MDLS ARE HINTING AT SCNDRY SHTWV ROLLING OUT OF PLAINS AND INTO MS VLY BY ERY SAT EVE...AND BLV THAT THIS SHUD PROVIDE ENUF LFT TO BRING AT LEAST A LO CHC OF PCPN TO AREAS WELL BHND FNT...MUCH AS INDICATED IN CURRENT ZNS. TEMPS WL BE TRICKY...BUT ONCE THE COLD AIR ARRIVES IN AN AREA LTR TNGT DONT LOOK FOR TOO MUCH OF A REBOUND DURING THE DAY FRI. THE EXCEPTION MAY BE IN FAR SE ZNS...WHERE LO CLDS MAY TEND TO ERODE A BIT DURING THE DAY ON FRI...ALLOWING A LTL MORE OF A CLIMB THERE. EXTRAP OF TEMPS AND FNTL PSTN SUGGEST THAT MAV IS A TOO COOL FOR TNGT...SO WL GO MORE WITH THE TRENDS SUGGESTED BY THE FWC. .STL...NONE TRUETT
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:50 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
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 15, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, March 15 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 15, 2002
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 15, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, March 15, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, March 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: 5280347.