Hail, Pawnee
- When
- April 27, 5:05 AM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County, Cleveland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.317, -96.467
Hail in Oklahoma, April 27, 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 27, 2:10 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 2:10 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 310 AM CDT SAT APR 27 2002 MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY OVER NERN NM WILL CONTINUE ITS TREK TO THE NORTHEAST TODAY AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND THE UPPER MS VALLEY. THIS SHORTWAVE IS CURRENTLY AIDING SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA. SOME OF THIS THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY WILL MOVE ACROSS OUR FA THIS MORNING. MAY ALSO SEE SOME ELEVATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING WITH A 50 TO 60 KT LOW LEVEL JET OVERHEAD. AS THE MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE AND ASSOCIATED SFC LOW PUSH OFF TO THE NORTHEAST...DRY AIR WILL RUSH INTO THE AREA WITH SFC DEWPOINT DISCONTINUITY MOVING INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME SFC BASED CONVECTION MAY DEVELOP ALONG THIS BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON BUT IT WILL BE A STRUGGLE. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP ALONG THIS BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON THEY WILL BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH CAPE VALUES OF 1500 TO 2000 J/KG AND LI VALUES OF -1 TO -5. ANOTHER CONCERN FOR TODAY WILL BE THE WINDS WITH THE PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENING AS THE THE SFC LOW DEVELOPS ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND AS THE DRY AIR MOVES INTO THE AREA ALLOWING FOR ADDITIONAL MIXING. WILL GO WITH CAUTION IS ADVISED WORDING FOR TODAY BUT THIS WILL NEED TO MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE UPGRADE TO A WIND ADVISORY. A WEAK COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND MOVING OFF TO THE NORTHEAST WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. IT WILL COME THROUGH DRY DUE TO THE TOTAL LACK OF MOISTURE. DID NOT MAKE ANY ADJUSTMENTS TO THE EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST. FCSTID = 10 TUL 80 58 80 59 / 60 0 0 0 FSM 76 57 83 56 / 40 10 0 0 MLC 79 59 84 58 / 40 0 0 0 BVO 79 55 77 57 / 80 0 0 0 FYV 74 54 77 56 / 70 10 0 0 BYV 71 54 78 55 / 60 10 0 0 MIO 75 55 77 57 / 70 0 0 0 MKO 79 58 82 59 / 60 0 0 0 F10 80 58 80 59 / 60 0 0 0 HHW 80 62 87 64 / 40 10 0 0 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:06 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
- Tornado in Missouri, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Missouri, April 27, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 27 to 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- High Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, April 27 to 30, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, April 27 to 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, 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: 5289863.