Hail, Mahoning
- When
- August 3, 12:10 AM EST
- Where
- Mahoning County, North Lima
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 40.950, -80.650
Dime size hail was reported two miles north of North Lima.
Hail in Ohio, August 3, 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 9:15 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 9:15 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1015 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002 FCST GOING WELL ALTHOUGH THERE ARE A FEW MORE CLOUDS HANGING AROUND GVN UPR TROF STILL IN THE VCNTY. WL ADJUST FCST FOR PC MOST AREAS. ALSO NEED TO ADD SMALL RW CHCS IN MFD MILLERSBURG AREAS. OTRW NO MAJ CHGS. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. TK
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:12 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, August 3, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Virginia, August 3, 2002
- Heat in Illinois, August 3 to 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 3, 2002
- Heat in Illinois, August 3 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, August 3, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, August 3, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 3, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Florida, August 3, 2002
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, August 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: 5312469.