Hail, Stone
- When
- May 1, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Stone County, 7 mi N of Cape Fair
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.833, -93.517
Hail in Missouri, May 1, 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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 1, 1:31 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 1:31 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 231 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2002 SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL THIS EVENING HIGHLIGHTS FORECAST CONCERNS. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A SURFACE LOW JUST NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD WITH A WARM CURLING FROM CENTRAL TO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. A SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDED SOUTHWEST INTO NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA BUT TRUE COLD FRONT APPEARS TO LAG BACK ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. VERY WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS HAS OVERSPREAD MUCH OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI DEW POINTS NEAR 70 DEGREES. JOPLIN HAS REACHED 87 DEGREES AS OF 19Z. LAPS DATA SHOWED LIFTED INDICES OF -6 TO -8 AND CAPES OF 2000 TO 4000 J/KG. A HEALTHY CAP WAS INHIBITING CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT EARLY THIS AFTERNOON BUT FOR HOW MUCH LONGER? UNCERTAINTY EXISTS TO IF...WHEN...AND WHERE CONVECTION WILL FIRE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. RUC SUGGEST CONVECTIVE INHIBITION WILL WEAKEN NEAR THE SAGGING FRONTAL BOUNDARY AFTER 22Z WHILE THE SURFACE LOW TRACKS ACROSS THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. EXPECT INITIATION IN THIS AREA. WILL HAVE TO WATCH TORNADIC POTENTIAL NEAR THE TRACK OF THE SURFACE LOW WHERE LOW LEVEL HELICITIES WILL BE MAXIMIZED. OTHERWISE EXPECT ANY CELLS THAT DO DEVELOP TO QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. WESTERN COUNTIES MAY REMAIN CAPPED AND DRY. THE FRONT WILL SLIDE THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT. POST FRONTAL CLOUDS WILL LINGER INTO THURSDAY MORNING. COULD BE A FEW SPRINKLES OR DRIZZLE EARLY BUT EXPECT CLEARING BY MIDDAY. MUCH COOLER DAY IN STORE FOR THURSDAY AS 850 TEMPERATURES PLUMMET. THE SURFACE HIGH WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT BUT THE CENTER REMAINS TO THE NORTH. ALTHOUGH COLD...IT APPEARS THAT ANY FROST POTENTIAL WILL BE CONFINED TO THE COLDEST VALLEYS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. WARM AIR ADVECTION SETS UP FRIDAY AS THE HIGH RETREATS. A WEAK IMPULSE ALSO PROGGED TO CROSS THE PLAINS. WILL SEE AT LEAST SOME INCREASE IN CLOUDS BUT WILL LEAVE DRY FOR NOW. QUASI ZONAL FLOW WILL SET UP OVER THE WEEKEND. WE WILL SEE A GENERAL WARMING TREND WITH PERIODIC CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION FROM SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES PUSH ACROSS THE REGION. .SGF...NONE. FOSTER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 3:16 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-020000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 416 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STILL POSSIBLE TONIGHT... * HAZARDOUS WEATHER THREAT(S)... LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES * THREAT AREAS AND TIMING... GREATEST THREAT OVER DENT AND SHANNON COUNTIES TONIGHT...WITH A LESSER THREAT FOR ALL AREAS SOUTH OF I 44. * DISCUSSION... VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR AT THE SURFACE...TOGETHER WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT COULD LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY LIMITING FACTOR TO ANY THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE A LAYER OF WARM AIR AROUND 6000 FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO ACT AS A CAPPING MECHANISM. SHOULD THE FORCING FROM THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT BE SUFFICIENT TO BREAK THE CAP...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD QUICKLY DEVELOP. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION OUTLOOK... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. * EXTENDED OUTLOOK... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED. BROWNING THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF
Special weather statement, May 1, 5:46 PM CST, 29 minutes before
MOZ071-082-083-092-095>098-103>106-020400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - TORNADO WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 646 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 197...IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING. THIS TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: CHRISTIAN...DENT...DOUGLAS...HOWELL...OREGON...OZARK...PHELPS... SHANNON...STONE...TANEY...TEXAS AND WRIGHT. SOME CITIES IN THIS TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE AVA...BRANSON...HOUSTON... OZARK...ROLLA AND WEST PLAINS.
Local storm report, May 1, 5:47 PM CST, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
647 PM CDT WED MAY 01 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0538 PM EXETER MO 1 INCH HAIL
05/01/02 BARRY REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:12 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
- Tornado and Hail in Georgia, May 1, 2002
- Hail in Kentucky, May 1, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 1, 2002
- Hail in Kentucky, May 1, 2002
- Hail in Kentucky, May 1, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, May 1, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, May 1, 2002
- Flood in Alaska, May 1 to 3, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, May 1 to 31, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Indiana, May 1, 2002
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 1, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 1, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, May 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: 5293903.