Hail, Polk
- When
- June 20, 5:40 PM EST to 5:50 PM EST
- Where
- Polk County, Ducktown
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.033, -84.383
Hail in Tennessee, June 20, 2002
Dime size hail was reported in Ducktown.
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 happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Dime size hail was reported in Ducktown.
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 Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 2:15 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:15 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 315 PM EDT THU JUN 20 2002 MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT OVERALL IN RETROGRADING UPPER LOW SOUTH OF OUR AREA...BUT STILL DIFFER A BIT IN TIMING/PLACEMENT. ETA SOLUTION LOOKS REASONABLE WITH UPPER LOW. APPEARS DEEPER MOISTURE WILL NOT ARRIVE UNTIL EARLY SATURDAY. WILL GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR HIGHER TERRAIN FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON/EVENING. THEN CHANCE POPS HIGHER TERRAIN SLIGHT CHANCE VALLEY FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. CURRENT RADAR SHOWS SOME CONVECTION FIRING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL PROBABLY NEED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR EARLY TONIGHT ONCE AGAIN. FWC/MAV GUIDANCE TEMPS GENERALLY CLOSE THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AND LOOK REASONABLE. WILL TREND TOWARD THE HIGHER FWC TEMPS FOR HIGHS SATURDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOLLOW: CHA 66 91 64 86 / 10 10 10 20 TYS 64 89 63 86 / 10 10 10 20 TRI 59 88 58 86 / 10 10 10 20 OQT 64 89 63 86 / 10 10 10 20 .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LDW
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:37 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
- Heat in Wisconsin, June 20, 2002
- Hail in New Mexico, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 20, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 20, 2002
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, June 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: 5300393.