Hail, Rusk
- When
- June 25, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rusk County, 5 mi NE of Henderson
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.200, -94.733
Hail in Texas, June 25, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 2:10 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:10 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 310 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER CWA WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN WEATHER FEATURE THROUGH THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. MRF SEEMS TO HAVE A GOOD LONG TERM SOLUTION WITH CENTER JUST DRIFTING NEXT FEW DAYS THEN SLOWLY WEAKENS. THIS AFTERNOON...THE CENTER WAS LOCATED NEAR TXK...WITH TODAYS MOVEMENT IN A NNW DIRECTION. CONVECTION IS MORE CONCENTRATED ON THE SOUTH AND EAST QUADRANTS...AREAS OF BEST LIFT. LOOK FOR THIS SCENARIO TO CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY. CONVECTION CAN BE EXPECTED ALL HOURS...BUT MOST COVERAGE WILL BE FROM LATE MORNING INTO EARLY THE EVENING HOURS. MOS GUIDANCE FROM ALL MODELS SEEMS OVERDONE WITH POPS...AS ACTIVITY HAS REMAINED SCATTERED FOR MOST PART. THE OVER FORECAST OF RAIN BY THE MODELS HAS RESULTED IN MOS HIGHS WHICH ARE SEVERAL DEGREES TOO COOL. THEREFORE FORECAST WILL BE SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS ISSUE AND NOT IN LINE WITH GUIDANCE NUMBERS. WILL BEGIN WITH SCATTERED POPS AND LOWER TO SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE LATER PERIODS AS SYSTEM WEAKENS. PRELIMS... SHV 069/087 070/087 070 4434 MLU 068/086 070/087 069 4434 TXK 067/086 069/086 068 3434 TYR 070/087 071/087 070 4534 LFK 068/086 070/086 071 4545 .SHV...NONE. 14
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
- Heat in Maryland, June 25 to 26, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, June 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, 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: 5296610.