Name: Hail in Texas, May 9, 2002
Start: 2002-05-09T21:50
End: 2002-05-09T21:50
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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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 9, 8:46 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 8:46 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
946 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM JUST SOUTH OF MLU TO JUST SOUTH
OF SHV TO BETWEEN GGG AND OCH TO NEAR TPL. STORMS ARE INCREASING
ACROSS NORTH TX...NORTH OF BOUNDARY AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES
AND SHORT WAVE OVER WEST TX APPROACHES. DECENT SHEAR TO THE NORTH
OF BOUNDARY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT AND DIV. ELEVATED SEVERE
STORMS POSSIBLE OVER THE WEST. BOUNDARY WILL NOT GO MUCH FARTHER
SOUTH TONIGHT. THE SKY IS MOSTLY CLOUDY TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT.
UPDATED TO ADD SEVERE TO THE NORTHWEST...ADJUSTED TEMPS UP A TAD
AND WORDED SKY AS MOSTLY CLOUDY OR BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY SOUTH.

IV

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 9:25 PM CST, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1025 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0955 PM    TYLER                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          TROOP HWY AT EAST SOUTHEAST LOOP                                        SOUTHEAST LOOP
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT                                   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0955 PM    TYLER                     TX   .88 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          64 EAST AT THE LOOP
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT                                        ENFORCEMENT

1005 PM    8 S TYLER                 TX   .88 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

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The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:48 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Gregg

When: May 9, 9:50 PM CST
Where: Gregg County, 3 mi W of Gladewater
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 32.533, -94.983

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

More

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5288342.