Hail, McNairy
- When
- May 2, 2:27 PM CST to 2:35 PM CST
- Where
- McNairy County, Bethel Spgs
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $100
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.233, -88.617
Hail in Tennessee, May 2, 2002
3 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
- $120
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 May 2, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1100 AM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 SFC ANALYSIS THIS MORNING PLACED THE CDFNT FROM CNTRL KY SWWD THRU SW TN INTO SW AR WITH AN AREA OF LO PRES INVOF TXK. TEMPS NORTH OF THE BNDRY WERE AROUND 60 AND UPR 70S ACROSS SRN SXNS OF THE FA. LATEST IR SAT LOOP WITH LIGHTNING PLOT INDICATES MAIN AREA OF TSTM ACTIVITY TO BE ACROSS SE MO NEWD INTO ERN KY. LOCAL 88D RADAR LOOP WAS SHOWING SOME SCATTERED PRECIP OVR NRN AR/SRN MO AND CNTRL MS. EXPECT THE CDFNT TO SLOWLY PROGRESS SEWD DURING THE DAY WITH THE EMPHASIS FOR PRECIP TO BE ERN AND SRN SXNS AHEAD OF THE BNDRY. THERE IS STILL A THREAT FOR SVR THIS AFTN FOR THE AREAS MENTIONED ABOVE AS STABILITY INDICES INDICATE A MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE. HAVE ADJUSTED POPS...TEMPS AND WINDS IN SOME ZN GROUPS BASED ON LATEST TRENDS. .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:26 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hardeman
- When
- May 2, 2:30 PM CST to 2:35 PM CST
- Where
- Hardeman County, Hickory Vly
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.167, -89.133
Hail, Hardin
- When
- May 2, 3:15 PM CST to 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Hardin County, Counce
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.050, -88.283
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
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, May 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: 5300160, 5300161, 5300162.