Hail in Missouri, March 28, 2002

Name: Hail in Missouri, March 28, 2002
Start: 2002-03-28T12:15
End: 2002-03-28T12:20
Location: Missouri

March 28, 2002 · NWS LSX · 2 events in 1 county or zone

The public reported 1 inch hail covering the ground in St. Paul.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 LSX wrote it up.

The public reported 1 inch hail covering the ground in St. Paul. The Sheriff Department reported golfball size hail 3 miles east of St. Paul.

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 28, 2:20 AM CST, 9 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 2:20 AM CST, 9 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
220 AM CST THU MAR 28 2002

SOME CHG IN THE NEW MDLS RUN.  CDFNT FOR TDY APPEAR WEAKER...ETA
SHWD LITTLE PCP ACRS OUR AREA...WHILE AVN SHWD LARGE AREA OF .06 FRM
CNTRL MO INTO CNRL IL.  AT THIS TIME KP LIKELY COU..UIN AND STL AREA
AND IL SIDE...BUT SHAVED POPS IN FAM AREA.  FWCS POPS FOR TODAY
APPEAR RATHER LOW...WHILE MAVSTL SHOWED 59%.

ANOTHER RUN OF SHOWERS ON FRI...AT THIS TIME THIS SYS WL EFFECT
MAINLY THE SOUTHERN MO INTO STL AND COU AREA...NE MO AND W-CNTRL IL
LOOKS DRY.

FOR SAT AND SUN LOOKS DRY...AND NEXT RUN FOR PCP WL BE MON AND TUE.
IF MRF IS CLOSE, POTENT COLD FNT WILL ROLL ACRS THE RGN MON NGT OR
ERY TUE AS SHARP TROF DIGS INTO THE MIDWEST.  850 TEMPS OF -10C ARE
FCST WED MRNG INTO N MO SO WNTR MAY MAKE A BRIEF RTRN.

.STL...NONE

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:17 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, St. Charles

When: March 28, 12:15 PM CST
Where: St. Charles County, St Paul
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.867, -90.733

Hail, St. Charles

When: March 28, 12:20 PM CST
Where: St. Charles County, 3 mi E of St Paul
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.867, -90.683

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

Every storm in Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5280348, 5280349.