Hail, Boone
- When
- May 6, 10:43 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County, Columbia
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.950, -92.333
Severe storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
Hail in Missouri, May 6, 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 6, 2:00 PM CST, 8 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:00 PM CST, 8 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 300 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 LINE OF SHWRS AND TSTM CRS OUR CWA THIS LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING...FEW STORMS STIL PRESENT IN SW IL. HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNG...ALONG WITH HAIL AND WIND. FFG FOR CNTRL AND NE MO SHWD ONE ARND ONE INCH FOR 3 HOURS PCP...IN THE SRN COUNTIES AROUND 2 INCHES. CONDITIONS FOR TONIGHT ARE SIMALR THAN LAST NIGHT...MDLS PLACE A WIDE BAND OF RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL MO. I WILL ISSUED FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OUR CWA TNGT AND TUES MORNG. ETA CRS SECTION FOR STL AND COU PLACE EVEN BETTER CHC TUES NIGHT... WITH BETTER LIFT. BUT MDLS DIFFER A BIT IN AMTS AND PLACE FOR RAIN. MRF SHWD FNT CRSNG MO THURS...WITH DRY WX PTN FRI AND EARLY SAT. RAIN WL MOVE INTO WRN MO LATE FRI AND SAT...KP RAIN FOR SAT IN WRN AND NE...AND FOR SUN AND FOR THE REST OF CWA. .STL...FLOOD WATCH FOR TNGT AND TUE MRNG FOR ENTIRE CWA.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:42 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, May 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 6 to 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, May 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 6, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, May 6 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, May 6, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Texas, May 6, 2002
- Hail in Michigan, May 6, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 6 to 17, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 6, 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: 5291398.