Hail, Polk
- When
- June 4, 1:15 PM EST
- Where
- Polk County, Ocoee
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 35.133, -84.733
Hail in Tennessee, June 4, 2002
Dime sized hail reported near Ocoee.
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 sized hail reported near Ocoee.
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 4, 8:45 AM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:45 AM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 945 AM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 NO CHANGES WARRANTED. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW MOISTURE FEED FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN CONUS. MOST OF THIS MOISTURE IS BEING FUNNELED UP THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE APPALACHIANS BUT STILL EXPECT SOME TO INFILTRATE EAST TENNESSEE. THUS CHANCE POP SEEMS REASONABLE ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE INSTABILITY PRESENT. TEMPS APPEAR ON TRACK TO APPROACH RECORD HIGHS THIS AFTERNOON PER MOS AND LAMP DATA. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LCM
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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 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: 5301678.