Hail in Ohio, June 4, 2002

Name: Hail in Ohio, June 4, 2002
Start: 2002-06-04T17:55
End: 2002-06-04T18:07
Location: Ohio

June 4, 2002 · NWS IWX · 3 events in 1 county or zone

3 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.

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 3:18 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:18 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
318 PM EST TUE JUN 4 2002

MID LEVEL CAP HAS BEEN WEAKENING...BUT STILL ABLE TO INHIBIT TSTM
FORMATION OVER NRN INDIANA AND NW OH. STNRY FRONT ACRS FAR NRN
INDIANA HAS BEEN A TRIGGER FOR STORMS. STORMS AT 20Z FIRING ALONG
FRONT WEST OF FWA...SO EXPECT DEEPER CONVECTION ALONG FRONT. WILL
KEEP LIKELY OR HIGHER POPS TONIGHT AS FRONT PUSHES SOUTH AS A COLD
FRONT. STILL EXPECT SOME STORMS AND SHOWERS WEDNESDAY AS STILL EXPECT
PCPN BEHIND FRONT...OTHERWISE...SHOULD SEE RAIN ENDING FROM THE NW AS
FRONT MOVES FARTHER SOUTH. GENERALLY USED ETA/AVN MOS AS THESE MODELS
APPEAR TO HAVE A REASONABLE HANDLE ON THERMAL FIELDS AND LOCATION OF
CONVECTION. EXPECT PARTLY CLOUDY CONDTNS THURS AND FRI WITH TEMPS A
LITTLE BELOW NORMAL BEHIND FRONT.

EXTENDED FORECAST
THE BIG CHALLENGE IS WHETHER OR NOT TO ADD PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR
SUNDAY.  THE AVN MODEL BRINGS A WEAK UPPER TROUGH ALONG THE SOUTHERN
STREAM OF THE JET STREAM ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND THE LOW
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.  ALTHOUGH THE UKMET AND ECMWF DO NOT READILY
PICK UP ON THIS WAVE...A MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW AND APPROACHING FRONT
TO THE WEST AS A LOW EJECTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS WARRANTS THE
INCLUSION OF POPS ON SUNDAY.  WITH THE UNCERTAIN TIMING OF THIS
FRONT...WE KEPT THE CHANCE FOR POPS IN THE FORECAST ON MONDAY AND
TUESDAY.  LITTLE CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE TEMPERATURES.

.IWX...NONE.

SKIP/MBS/PBM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:25 PM EST, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
525 PM EST TUE JUN 04 2002

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

0523 PM    3 SW HUNTINGTON           IN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   HUNTINGTON                     REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:26 PM EST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
526 PM EST TUE JUN 04 2002

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

0524 PM    1 N OSSIAN                IN   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   WELLS                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:27 PM EST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
527 PM EST TUE JUN 04 2002

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

0525 PM    1 N OSSIAN                IN   .88 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   WELLS                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:33 PM EST, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
533 PM EST TUE JUN 04 2002

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

0530 PM    2 N TOCSIN                IN   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   WELLS                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:41 PM EST, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
541 PM EST TUE JUN 04 2002

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

0540 PM    1 N DECATUR               IN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   ADAMS                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:46 PM EST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
546 PM EST TUE JUN 04 2002

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

0545 PM    2 NE DECATUR              IN   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   ADAMS                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:53 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Van Wert

When: June 4, 5:55 PM EST
Where: Van Wert County, 2 mi NW of Wren
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.817, -84.800

Hail, Van Wert

When: June 4, 6:00 PM EST
Where: Van Wert County, 5 mi SW of Van Wert
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.817, -84.633

Hail, Van Wert

When: June 4, 6:07 PM EST
Where: Van Wert County, 3 mi NW of Ohio City
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.800, -84.650

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 Ohio in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Ohio, June 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: 5301166, 5301167, 5301168.