Name: Hail in Missouri, May 7, 2002
Start: 2002-05-07T11:25
End: 2002-05-07T11:25
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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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 7, 10:30 AM CST, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 10:30 AM CST, 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1130 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

UPDATED ZONES FOR AFTERNOON WORDING AND ONGOING CONVECTION WHICH IS
SLOWLY MOVING SOUTHWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN CWA. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY
CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH SGF WITH LITTLE OR NO CAP PRESENT OVER
SOUTHERN MISSOURI. EXPECT AT LEAST SOME CONVECTION TO CONTINUE
THROUGH MID AFTERNOON BEFORE CALMING DOWN. NUMEROUS FLASH FLOOD
WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED AND WITH CURRENT TRENDS OF NEW DEVELOPMENT
OVERNIGHT...EXPECT TO REISSUE A FFA OVER THE CWA BY THIS AFTERNOON.
HAVE UPDATED EXTENDED ISC GRIDS. NO MAJOR CHANGES EXPECTED.

.SGF...
MO...NONE
KS...NONE

JLT

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 7:06 AM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
806 AM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0800 AM    2 N ROLLA                 MO   FLOOD
05/07/02   PHELPS                         THE PUBLIC REPORTED E
                                          HIGHWAY NORTH OF ROLLA
                                          FLOODED AND IMPASSBLE.

Local storm report, May 7, 7:35 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
835 AM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 AM    FT SCOTT                  KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   BOURBON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 7, 7:54 AM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
854 AM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 AM    HIATTVILLE                KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   BOURBON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 7, 8:02 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
806 AM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0800 AM    2 N ROLLA                 MO   FLOOD
05/07/02   PHELPS                         THE PUBLIC REPORTED E
                                          HIGHWAY NORTH OF ROLLA
                                          FLOODED AND IMPASSBLE.

Local storm report, May 7, 8:22 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
922 AM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0915 AM    2 W NEVADA                MO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   VERNON                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 7, 11:19 AM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1219 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1140 AM    4 N DEDERICK              MO   FLOOD
05/07/02   VERNON                         HWY AA COVERED WITH
                                          WATER. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

WWUS30 KSGF 071720
LSRSGF

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1219 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1140 AM    NEVADA                    MO   FLOOD
05/07/02   VERNON                         UNDERPASS FLOODED.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Polk

When: May 7, 11:25 AM CST
Where: Polk County, Pleasant Hope
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 37.467, -93.283

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.

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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: 5294013.