Hail, Hardin
- When
- August 20, 1:40 PM CST to 1:45 PM CST
- Where
- Hardin County, Walnut Grove
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.050, -88.050
Hail in Tennessee, August 20, 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
- $10
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 20, 8:49 AM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 8:49 AM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 949 AM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002 OUTFLOW BOUNDARY LOCATED FROM NORTHEAST OF TUPELO...TO NEAR HERNANDO MAY PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION THROUGH 19-20Z. HAVE MADE SHORT TERM UPDATES TO FORECASTS TO ACCOUNT FOR LATEST TRENDS. .MEG...NONE. 99
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 20 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, August 20 to 21, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 20, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, August 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 20, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 20, 2002
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 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: 5315487.