Name: Hail in New York, May 27, 2002
Start: 2002-05-27T16:58
End: 2002-05-27T16:58
Location: New York

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 happened

The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.

As a severe thunderstorm moved slowly east, it produced 1 inch diameter hail in Newburgh.

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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 27, 1:55 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:55 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
255 PM EDT MON MAY 27 2002

WITH WEAK BOUNDARY HANGING AROUND FROM NE NJ SOUTHWARD. ALSO...TSTMS
DEVELOPING ON SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY IN NJ AND ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE
LOWER HUDSON VALLEY. WILL KEEP MENTION OF A SHOWER OR TSTM INTO THE
EVENING.

OTHERWISE...NO AIRMASS CHANGE NEXT FEW DAYS AS LIGHT ONSHORE FLOW
CONTINUES. WE SAW DENSE FOG ACROSS LI AND CT LAST NIGHT. GIVEN THIRD
NIGHT OF LIGHT ONSHORE FLOW...WILL BE ISSUING A DENSE FOG ADVISORY
EVERYWHERE TONIGHT. LOOKING AT ETA FORECAST SOUNDINGS AND NGM MOS
GUIDANCE...IT LOOKS LIKE LOW LEVEL SATURATION OCCURS RATHER QUICKLY
THIS EVENING. I BELIEVE AFTER 00Z THE FOG WILL REDEVELOP...OR MOVE
BACK IN OFF THE WATER. AREAS WELL NORTH AND WEST MAY TAKE A COUPLE
OF HOURS LONGER...BUT DO FEEL FOG WILL BE WIDESPREAD. COOR WITH PHI
AND BOS.

THEN...MORNING CLOUDS AND FOG BURN OFF TO PARTLY SUNNY SKIES ON
TUESDAY. WITH LACK OF BOUNDARY OR TRIGGER...WILL LEAVE FORECAST DRY
EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THE MODELS DO SHOW SOME SHOWER ACTIVITY AND QPF
OUTPUT NORTHWEST ZONES. 12KM SUSB MM5 BRINGS SOME SHOWER/TSTM
ACTIVITY CLOSE INTO NORTHWEST NJ...THEN AREA DISSIPATES.

MORE FOG TUESDAY NIGHT AND PARTLY SUNNY WEDNESDAY AS PATTERN REMAINS.

WILL CONTINUE WITH SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM THREAT FOR FRIDAY WITH NEXT
COLD FRONT AND SHORTWAVE...BUT MAY MOVE TIMING BACK IN THE GRIDS
UNTIL FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. THEN DRY AND SEASONABLE.
MAYBE A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL THIS WEEKEND.

TEMPS: GUIDANCE NUMBERS CLOSE UNTIL WEDNESDAYS HIGHS. MAVS MUCH
LOWER THAN FWCS AND ETA MOS. IT IS PICKING UP ON LOW CLOUDS ALL
DAY. I DO NOT AGREE WITH THAT AND WILL GO CLOSER TO NGM...ETA
SOLUTIONS.

MARINE: QUIET WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES. WINDS AND SEAS SHOULD
COOPERATE....BUT VSBY WILL BE A PROBLEM FOR MARINERS.

NUMBERS BELOW...

FCSTID = 30
EWR   61  78  63  75 /  30  10  10  10
MGJ   57  77  58  75 /  40  10  10  10
DXR   57  77  57  75 /  30  10  10  10
NYC   61  77  63  75 /  30  10  10  10
ISP   59  75  59  74 /  30  10  10  10
GON   56  72  56  73 /  30  10  10  10

.OKX...
CT...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FROM 900 PM EDT UNTIL 800 AM EDT TUESDAY
     FOR ZONES CTZ005>012.

NJ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FROM 1100 PM EDT UNTIL 800 AM EDT TUESDAY
     FOR ZONES NJZ002>006...NJZ011.

NY...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FROM 900 PM EDT UNTIL 800 AM EDT TUESDAY
     FOR ZONES NYZ072>081.
     DENSE FOG ADVISORY FROM 1100 PM EDT UNTIL 800 AM EDT TUESDAY
     FOR ZONES NYZ067>071.

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The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:55 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Orange

When: May 27, 4:58 PM EST
Where: Orange County, Newburgh
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.500, -74.017

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

More

Every storm in New York in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in New York, 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: 5296736.