Hail, Barton
- When
- May 12, 1:07 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 4 mi NW of Lamar
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 37.533, -94.333
Hail in Missouri, May 12, 2002
Quarter size hail was also reported northeast of Lamar.
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 happened
The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
Quarter size hail was also reported northeast of Lamar.
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 12, 12:01 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 12:01 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 101 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER BUSY EVENING/NITE COMING ACROSS CWA. SGF RADAR SHOWING FAIRLY STRONG TSRA OVER SE KS ATTM...BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. WAITING FOR SVR TSRA BOX TO COME OUT ANY MINUTE. CLOUDS COVERS ALL CWA WHICH HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW 70S TO MID 60S BEHIND THE FRONT. MAIN PROBLEM IS WHAT TO DO WITH FFA. WILL KEEP CURRENT THINKING AS PREVIOUS SHIFT AND TRIM OFF THE NWRN ZONES OF CWA AND PUT A LIKELY POP...BASED ON MESO ETA QPF FIELDS. WILL KEEP THE FFA FOR REST OF CWA FOR TONIGHT. LOOKS LIKE EARLY MORNING HOURS MOST OF THE UPPER SUPPORT (5H TROF) IS PUSHING EAST OF CWA. WILL GO WITH BLEND OF ETA/MAV FOR TEMPERATURES. NICE/MILD/DRY WEATHER FOR THE REST OF THE FORECAST. ANOTHER 5H TROF WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT CWA BY END OF NEXT WEEK...MADE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO CURRENT EXTENDED. WILL SEND UPDATED AFD AFTER DETERMINE FFA GOES AND UPDATE ZONES FOR NEW SVR WEATHER BOX. SS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 12:00 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-122245- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 ...HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44... * HAZARDOUS WEATHER THREAT(S)... IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. * THREAT AREAS AND TIMING... BEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44 FROM 6 PM TONIGHT TO 4 AM MONDAY MORNING. * DISCUSSION... A COLD FRONT AND STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL PUSH ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...BRINGING ANOTHER ROUND OF MAINLY HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVY RAIN THAT FELL A FEW DAYS AGO HAS SATURATED THE GROUND...AND IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH RAIN TO CREATE LOCALIZED FLOODING. LOCATIONS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44 CAN EXPECT BETWEEN ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN...WHILE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44...TWO TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION OUTLOOK... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED DUE TO THE MAIN THREAT BEING HEAVY RAIN. * EXTENDED OUTLOOK... MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED BY LATE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SS 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 12, 12:16 PM CST, 51 minutes before
MOZ066>071-077>081-088>096-101>104-130000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 116 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 288...IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BARRY...BARTON...CAMDEN...CEDAR...CHRISTIAN...DADE...DALLAS... DOUGLAS...GREENE...HICKORY...JASPER...LACLEDE...LAWRENCE... MCDONALD...NEWTON...PHELPS...POLK...PULASKI...ST. CLAIR...STONE... TANEY...VERNON...WEBSTER AND WRIGHT. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE AVA... BOLIVAR...BRANSON...CAMDENTON...FORT LEONARD WOOD...JOPLIN... LEBANON...MONETT...MOUNT VERNON...NEOSHO...NEVADA...OSAGE BEACH... OZARK...ROLLA...SPRINGFIELD AND STOCKTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SS
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
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 31, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, May 12, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 12, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, May 12, 2002
- Flood in Alaska, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 13, 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: 5294148.