Name: Hail in Oklahoma, April 27, 2002
Start: 2002-04-27T04:30
End: 2002-04-27T04:35
Location: Oklahoma

Where it happened

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Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 27, 1:04 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 1:04 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
204 AM CDT SAT APR 27 2002

BY DAYBREAK THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WEST SHOULD HAVE EVOLVED INTO A
SMALL MCS AND HAVE BEGUN TO DISSIPATE. THE UPPER SYSTEM BEGAN TO
MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CO EARLY THIS MORNING ON ITS WAY
ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS LATER THIS MORNING. THIS WILL HELP PUSH
THE DRYLINE INTO WESTERN OK THIS MORNING AND INTO CENTRAL SECTIONS
BY MID-DAY. GUSTY SOUTHWEST OR WEST WINDS WILL FOLLOW ALONG WITH
CLEARING SKIES AND MUCH DRIER BOUNDARY LAYER AIR. IN THE MEAN
TIME...FOG AND LOW CLOUDS WILL PERSIST NORTH OF THE WARM
FRONT...WHICH WILL MOVE NORTH AND BECOME MORE DIFFUSE OVER SOUTHERN
OK THIS MORNING.

THE DRYLINE WILL LIKELY HANG OUT IN SOUTHEAST OK UNTIL THE SURFACE
COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES IN THE
NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE WERE LOWERED FOR SUNDAYS COOLER AIRMASS.

MODEST SUBTROPICAL RIDGING OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE U.S. WILL
BRING PERIODS OF CIRRUS OVER THE FORECAST AREA AFTER SUNDAY NIGHT OR
MONDAY. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN STILL APPEARS TO BE WITH ANOTHER
QUICK UPPER SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATE SURFACE FRONT TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY. THE REST OF THE LONGER-TERM FORECAST REMAINS AS THE
PREVIOUS ONE WITH A COOL-DOWN BY WEEKS END.

FCSTID = 9
OKC   81  52  75  56 /  40   0   0   0
HBR   83  51  76  54 /  40   0   0   0
SPS   83  53  79  60 /  20   0   0   0
GAG   84  47  73  52 /  30   0   0   0
PNC   80  51  73  55 /  40   0   0   0
DUA   77  54  75  60 /  40   0   0   0

.OUN...
OK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 700 AM CDT SATURDAY FOR ZONES
OKC003...OKC009...OKC011...OKC039...OKC043...OKC045...OKC053...
OKC055...OKC057...OKC059...OKC065...OKC075...OKC093...OKC129...
OKC141...OKC149...OKC151...OKC153.

TX...NONE.

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:27 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Payne

When: April 27, 4:30 AM CST
Where: Payne County, 3 mi W of Stillwater
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: STORM CHASER
Coordinates: 36.117, -97.117

Hail was reported at Highway 51 and Range Road.

Hail, Payne

When: April 27, 4:35 AM CST
Where: Payne County, Stillwater
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: STORM CHASER
Coordinates: 36.117, -97.067

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.

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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: 5287613, 5287614.