Hail in Missouri, May 7, 2002

Name: Hail in Missouri, May 7, 2002
Start: 2002-05-07T15:17
End: 2002-05-07T15:19
Location: Missouri

May 7, 2002 · NWS SGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

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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, 2:45 PM CST, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:45 PM CST, 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED TO INCLUDE WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
345 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

FORECAST CONCERNS: FLOODING POTENTIAL OVERNIGHT. CONFIGURATION OF
CWA WITH HIGHEST TSRA POTENTIAL.

OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM LATEST MCS OVERNIGHT HAD MOVED INTO EXTREME
SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...WITH TEMPS APPROACHING 80 IN THIS AREA.
ELSEWHERE RAIN COOLED AIR HAS STABILIZED THE ATMOSPHERE WITH ONLY
SOME DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTS SINCE NOON. RADAR INDICATED STORM TOTAL
PRECIPITATION ABOVE 1.5 INCHES IN A BROAD AREA NORTH OF INTERSTATE
44. I WILL LIKELY ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH FOR AREAS NORTH AND EAST OF A
MOUNT VERNON TO NEVADA LINE THROUGH NOON WEDNESDAY WITH THE MAIN
EMPHASIS ON MODERATE FLOODING IN THESE AREAS....ESPECIALLY NEAR THE
LAKE OF THE OZARKS WHERE FLOODING IS ONGOING.

CONVECTION OVER CWA WILL LIKELY SHIFT NORTH AND EAST DURING THE
AFTERNOON WITH THE NEXT FOCUS OUT WEST WHERE ANOTHER COMPLEX IS
DEVELOPING IN OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS. WATER VAPOR SHOWING ANOTHER IN
THE SERIES OF SHORT WAVES MOVING ACROSS NEW MEXICO INTO WESTERN
TEXAS. THIS WILL BE THE MAIN PLAYER OVERNIGHT WITH THE INITIATION OF
CONVECTION SOMEWHERE NEAR THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH OF
SGF...AND ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WHERE MORE SUNSHINE HAS
DESTABILIZED THE ATMOSPHERE.

WILL LIKELY GO WITH PERSISTENCE FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS
THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. EARLIER ZONES HAD CHANCE OF
TSRA ON SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY. DUE TO SURROUNDING OFFICES AND HPC
DISCUSSION...WILL LIKELY UP THE TIME TO SATURDAY AFTN AND DROP
CHANCE MONDAY AFTERNOON. NO OTHER CHANGES EXPECTED WITH MINOR
TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS THROUGH THE PERIOD.

.SGF...
MO...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON CDT WEDNESDAY FOR ZONES MOZ055>058...
MOZ066>071...MOZ077>083...MOZ089>092...MOZ096>098...MOZ106.

KS...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON CDT WEDNESDAY FOR ZONE KSZ073.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 12:28 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

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

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

1225 PM    PLEASANT HOPE             MO   .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   POLK                           REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

Local storm report, May 7, 12:39 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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

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

0101 PM    NIXA                      MO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   CHRISTIAN                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 7, 1:05 PM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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

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

1215 PM    PLEASANT HOPE             MO   .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   POLK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 7, 1:10 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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

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

0205 PM    2 S WINONA                MO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   SHANNON                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Special weather statement, May 7, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066>068-077>082-088>098-101>106-080200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
300 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMBER 248...IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING. THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN MISSOURI:

BARRY...BARTON...CEDAR...CHRISTIAN...DADE...DALLAS...DOUGLAS...
GREENE...HICKORY...HOWELL...JASPER...LACLEDE...LAWRENCE...MCDONALD...
NEWTON...OREGON...OZARK...POLK...SHANNON...ST. CLAIR...STONE...
TANEY...TEXAS...VERNON...WEBSTER AND WRIGHT.

IN KANSAS:

BOURBON...CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD.

SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE AVA...
BOLIVAR...BRANSON...FORT SCOTT...HOUSTON...JOPLIN...LEBANON...
MONETT...MOUNT VERNON...NEOSHO...NEVADA...OZARK...PITTSBURG...
SPRINGFIELD...STOCKTON AND WEST PLAINS.

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.

Local storm report, May 7, 3:17 PM CST, 0 minutes before

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

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

0340 PM    HIATTVILLE                KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   BOURBON                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0350 PM    FT SCOTT ARPT             KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02   BOURBON                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:15 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Vernon

When: May 7, 3:17 PM CST to 3:19 PM CST
Where: Vernon County, Nevada
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 37.833, -94.367

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

Every storm in Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5294019.