Hail, Richland
- When
- July 26, 12:35 PM EST
- Where
- Richland County, Mansfield Lahm Arpt
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 40.817, -82.517
Dime size hail was observed.
Hail in Ohio, July 26, 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 Jul 26, 8:55 AM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 8:55 AM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 955 AM EDT FRI JUL 26 2002 SFC TROF CROSSING GRTLKS WL STAY N OF FCST AREA. NOT SURE HOW WELL BAND OF SHOWERS/STORMS CROSSING MI WL HOLD TOGETHER. SHOWERS FOCUSED IN AREA OF BEST MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE PROGGED TO MOV INTO W NY AND N PART OF FCST AREA THIS AFTRN. FEEL MOST CONFIDENT THAT SHOWERS/STORMS CAN EITHER HOLD TOGETHER OR REDEVELOP ACRS NW PA AND EXTREME NE OH AND WL REDRAW ZONE GROUPINGS TO INDICATE LIKELY POPS IN THIS AREA THIS AFTRN. SHUD BE A LAKE BREEZE AND THIS COULD TRIGGER SCT ACTIVITY FM SANDUSKY TO CLE. SCT/CHC ELSEWHERE. THINK THE S/WV NR STL WL STAY S OF FCST AREA ALTHOUGH NOT SURE THE UVV COULDNT HELP TRIGGER SOME STORMS NR MNN LATR TDY. THINK THAT N TROF AND OH VLY S/WV WL MOV AWAY EARLY TNGT SO WL SPECIFY EARLY IN TNGT FCST. NO OTHER CHANGES. UPDATE ABT 1015 AM. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. KOSARIK
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:33 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
- Heat in Missouri, July 26 to 31, 2002
- Heat in Illinois, July 26 to 28, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, July 26, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, July 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, July 26, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Utah, July 26, 2002
- Tornado in Iowa, July 26, 2002
- Flash Flood in Arizona, July 26, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, July 26, 2002
- Heat in Illinois, July 26 to 31, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, July 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 26, 2002
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, July 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: 5307249.