Hail, Latimer
- When
- March 15, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Latimer County, 5 mi NNW of Wilburton
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.983, -95.350
Hail in Oklahoma, March 15, 2002
2 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
- 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 15, 10:10 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 10:10 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1010 AM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 SFC CDFNT HAS PUSHED TO THE EAST OF THE CWFA THIS MORNING. H8 BOUNDARY STRETCHED OUT ROUGHLY ALONG OR JUST EAST OF THE I-44 CORRIDOR. EASTERN HALF OF THE CWFA UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MODEST UPR DIVERGENCE IN THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPR JET...AND WL STAY THAT WAY FOR MOST OF THE DAY. BUFKIT MODEL FORECAST SOUNDINGS ALSO SHOWING SOME MODEST ELEVATED CAPE ACROSS FAR EASTERN ZONES...WITH ELEVATED LIS APPROACHING -4 DEG C. ALL THIS TO SAY SCATTERED STORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE AFTN HOURS ACROSS ERN ZNS. WL GO AHEAD AND RAISE POPS TO THE LOW CHC CATEGORY ACROSS NW AR...AND LEAVE SLGT CHC POPS ACROSS SE OK. COULD SEE SHRA/TSRA ACTIVITY JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE IN THE STRONG BAROCLINIC ZONE OVER THE ERN PART OF THE CWFA. ALSO GIVEN THE AVAILABLE CAPE AND STEEP LAPSE RATES...THERE MAY BE A FEW HAIL REPORTS WITH SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY. UPDATED ZNS OUT IN A FEW...THANKS SGF FOR COORD THIS MORNING MANNING FCSTID = 24 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 11:00 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-161200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1100 AM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND FAR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED THIS MORNING OVER NORTH-CENTRAL ARKANSAS... EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO FAR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE BEHIND THE FRONT...ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND FAR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG...PRODUCING SMALL HAIL... PRIMARILY OVER LE FLORE...SEBASTIAN...MADISON...AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT EAST OF THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING AS THE UPPER JET LIFTS NORTHEAST. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT...HOWEVER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND FAR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS THIS AFTERNOON. .DISCUSSION... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING ALONG ELEVATED INSTABILITY AXIS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND BEHIND THE COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON...AS REGION REMAINS IN RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF STRONG UPPER JET. FORECAST POINT SOUNDINGS SUPPORT ELEVATED CAPE VALUES BETWEEN 500-750 J/KG OVER FAR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS. GIVEN THE LOW WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS...SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER CELLS. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...LIFTING NORTHEAST DURING THE EVENING HOURS WITH PRECIPITATION ENDING. RELATED GRAPHICAL INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:29 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Haskell
- When
- March 15, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, 3 mi E of Kinta
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.117, -95.183
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
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 15, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, March 15 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 15, 2002
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 15, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, March 15, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, March 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: 5286668, 5286669.