Hail, Iron
- When
- May 2, 4:37 AM CST to 4:42 AM CST
- Where
- Iron County, Ironton
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.600, -90.633
The County Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail that lasted for about 5 minutes.
Hail in Missouri, May 2, 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 May 2, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 400 AM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 CONCERNS FOR THIS FCST PD... PCPN AMT/TYPE FOR SRN PTN CWA TEMPS/CLD DISSIPATION PLAINS SFC RDG WORKING EWD WITH GOOD PRES RISES THIS MRNG OVR CWA. 06Z TEMPS AT ALL POINTS WERE 4-5 DEG LOWER THAN MOS GUID HAD PROJECTED. GOOD CAA TAKING PLACE AND WILL CONT THRU TDA WITH TEMPS HOLDING IN 50S MOST EVERYWHERE THIS AFTN. SWLY FLOW STILL HOLDS OVR AREA (PROFILERS AND 88D VADS) AND ELEVATED CONVECTION HAS SET UP OVR SRN MO PAST 2-3 HRS. HWVR PAST 30 MIN THE NRN CELL HAS RUN INTO DRYER AIR AND DECLINED SUBSTANTIALLY IN STRENGTH. WILL KEEP CHC PCPN ACRS SRN HLF CWA TDA THEN ALLOW COND TO DRY OUT TNGT/FRI ACRS AREA. LOOK FOR GOOD DROP IN TEMPS TNGT AS DWPTS WILL BE SVRL DEG LOWER...THEN BACK TO NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH UNSETTLED CONDITIONS TAKING PLACE WITH S/W FLOW. ADDED CHC PCPN IN PORTIONS OF EXTENDED FOR LAST THREE DAYS...OTRW.. LTL CHANGE. .STL...NONE PEDIGO
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 and Flood in West Virginia, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Virginia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Rip Currents in Florida, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornado in Maryland, May 2, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 2, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, May 2, 2002
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 2, 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: 5291783.