Hail, Lancaster
- When
- May 2, 6:35 PM EST
- Where
- Lancaster County, Lititz
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.150, -76.300
Nickel sized hail was reported in Lititz.
Hail in Pennsylvania, May 2, 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 State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 4:25 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 4:25 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE 525 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002 WILL UPDATE ZONES FOR CANCELLATION OF TORNADO WATCH. .CTP...NONE. FITZGERALD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 1:30 PM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
PAZ025>028-034>036-049-050-052-056>059-063>066-030000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 230 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... NORTHUMBERLAND...UNION...SCHUYLKILL...SNYDER...MIFFLIN...BLAIR... HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...DAUPHIN...PERRY...LEBANON...BEDFORD... CUMBERLAND...LANCASTER...FRANKLIN...YORK...FULTON AND ADAMS. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME LOCALLY SEVERE...CAUSING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LA CORTE
Special weather statement, May 2, 1:50 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
PAZ025>028-034>036-049-050-052-056>059-063>066-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR EXPIRE TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 250 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... NORTHUMBERLAND...UNION...SCHUYLKILL...SNYDER...MIFFLIN...BLAIR... HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...DAUPHIN...PERRY...LEBANON...BEDFORD... CUMBERLAND...LANCASTER...FRANKLIN...YORK...FULTON AND ADAMS. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME LOCALLY SEVERE...CAUSING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LA CORTE
Special weather statement, May 2, 4:16 PM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PAZ025>028-034>036-049-050-052-056>059-063>066-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 516 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... NORTHUMBERLAND...UNION...SCHUYLKILL...SNYDER...MIFFLIN...BLAIR... HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...DAUPHIN...PERRY...LEBANON...BEDFORD... CUMBERLAND...LANCASTER...FRANKLIN...YORK...FULTON AND ADAMS. THE THREAT OF TORNADOES HAS ENDED ACROSS THE REGION...AS COOLER AND DRIER AIR WORKS INTO THE REGION BEHIND A COLD FRONT. ALTHOUGH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES IN LANCASTER COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM...THE THREAT OF TORNADOES HAS ENDED FOR THE MIDDLE AND LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY.
Local storm report, May 2, 4:51 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE, PA
551 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0343 PM FAIRFIELD PA .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 ADAMS
443 PM SHREWSBURY PA .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 YORK
522 PM DELTA BORO PA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 YORK REPORTED POTENTIAL TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN
450 PM ELIZABETH PA WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02 LANCASTER REPORTED SEVERAL TREES AND
WIRES DOWN
0356 PM FAIRFIELD PA WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02 ADAMS SEVERAL TREES AND WIRES
DOWN
0510 PM AIRVILLE PA 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/02/02 YORK
VGCThe radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 162 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:33 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
- Flash Flooding and Flood in West Virginia, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Virginia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Rip Currents in Florida, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornado in Maryland, May 2, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 2, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, May 2, 2002
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 2, 2002
More
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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: 5292888.