Hail, Wood
- When
- May 4, 7:10 AM CST
- Where
- Wood County, 5 mi NW of Mineola
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 32.717, -95.550
Hail in Texas, May 4, 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 May 4, 1:30 AM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 1:30 AM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 AM CDT SAT MAY 4 2002 A STATIONARY FRONT CONTINUES TO LINGER ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING...FROM JUST SOUTH OF MLU TO NEAR LFK. THE MODELS SHOW LITTLE MOVEMENT WITH THIS BOUNDARY...AS IT MAY WASHOUT IN ITS CURRENT LOCATION. DECENT MOISTURE WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA THIS PERIOD...ESPECIALLY BELOW 700 MB...WITH SOME DRYING BEING NOTED IN THE MID LEVELS. AN UPPER RIDGE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT WORK WEEK...KEEPING THE AREA IN A ZONAL FLOW...AND ALLOWING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES TO MEANDER NEAR THE BOUNDARY. SO FOR THE FORECAST...WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN THROUGH MONDAY...WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SKY CONDITIONS...ALTHOUGH SOME SUN MAY BE OBSERVED. CLOUD COVER WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN ON THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE BOUNDARY...SO WILL UNDERCUT GUIDANCE IN THE FIRST PERIOD AND FOLLOW DURING THE REST. PRELIMS... SHV 76/64/84/71 2222 MLU 79/63/85/70 2222 TXK 72/60/82/68 2222 TYR 76/64/82/70 2222 LFK 87/68/88/70 2222 ELEVEN .SHV...NONE.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 4 to 5, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 4, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 4 to 5, 2002
- Dense Fog in Oklahoma, May 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 4 to 5, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, May 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Flood in Georgia, May 4, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, May 4, 2002
- Heavy Rain in Hawaii, May 4, 2002
- Flood in Alaska, May 4 to 6, 2002
- Heavy Rain in Hawaii, May 4, 2002
- Wildfire in Arizona, May 4, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, 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: 5288336.