Hail, Vinton
- When
- April 19, 6:35 PM EST
- Where
- Vinton County, Mc Arthur
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.250, -82.483
Hail in Ohio, April 19, 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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 4:48 PM EST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 4:48 PM EST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 548 PM EDT THU APR 19 2002 SHORT TERM: TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY. WILL KEEP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY NIGHT IN ACCORDING WITH THE PREVIOUS FORECAST....AS A WAVE APPROACH FROM THE WEST LATE TONIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER WAVE ON SUNDAY. LONG TERM...ADDED -SHRA MTNS MON MORN...LOWERED TEMPERATURES EARLY IN THE WEEK AND SLOWED FRONT DOWN TO LATE WED/WED NT INTO THU. .RLX... WV...NONE. VA...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...SVR TSTM WATCH OHZ066-067-075-076-083-084-200200. .END/ ELW/TRM
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:37 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
- Damaging Winds in District of Columbia, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, April 19 to 21, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, April 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: 5289552.