Hail in Vermont, May 30, 2002

Name: Hail in Vermont, May 30, 2002
Start: 2002-05-30T18:23
End: 2002-05-30T18:23
Location: Vermont

May 30, 2002 · NWS BTV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A cold front moved southeast from Canada and triggered late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Dime size hail was reported in the town of Lowell.

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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 happened

The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.

A cold front moved southeast from Canada and triggered late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Dime size hail was reported in the town of Lowell.

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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 3:10 PM EST, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:10 PM EST, 3 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
410 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2002

SHRA/TSRA DVLPMNT HAS INCREASED ONCE AGAIN ACRS FA THIS PM
AS SOME BRKS IN CLD CVR HAVE ALLOWED FOR SOME SUNSHINE AND
RESULTANT INSTABILITY. MORE IMPRESSIVE STORMS NORTH OF BORDER OVR
SERN ONT ENTERING QUE. THESE ASSOCD WITH SHRTWV SLIDING ACRS SRN
CANADA. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO RMN NORTH OF BORDER...WITH ANY
CONVECTION THAT DVLPS ACRS OUR CWA TO BE UNORGANIZED PULSE TYPE
STORMS...AND PROBABLY NON-SEVERE. SHRTWV APRCHG FROM GRTLKS LATER
TONITE WL RESULT IN CHC MORE SHWRS/TSTRMS LATER TONITE. THIS SHRTWV
WL MOVE ACRS FA FRI AM. AMT OF PCPN/CLD CVR WITH THIS DISTURBANCE WL
GO A LONG WAY IN DETERMING WHAT TYPE OF WX WE SEE FRI PM...AS CDFNT
AND MUCH STRONGER SHRTWV MOVE ACRS FA DURING PM/EVENING HRS.
CLDS/SHWRS DURING MORNING LIKELY TO INHIBIT INSTABILITY. HAVE OPTED
NOT TO CARRY ANY STRONGER WORDING IN ZONES FOR THNDSTRMS FRI WITH
THIS PACKAGE...BASED ON LACK OF INSTABILITY. WITH GOOD DYNAMICS
AND STG WIND FIELD THOUGH...SHUD WE SEE SUNSHINE...THNDSTRMS WOULD
HAVE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WNDS. GREATER CHC FOR SVR APPEARS
TO BE SOUTH OF OUR CWA.

MOST OF ACTIVITY WL BE EXITING FA EARLY FRI NITE. NOTICEABLY DRIER
AIR RETURNS FRI NITE ALLOWING FOR CLRNG SKIES. BREEZY AND DRY
WX EXPECTED SATURDAY. SECONDARY CDFNT DROPS THRU FA SAT NITE
RESULTING IN CHC SHWRS. HIGH PRESSURE BLDS IN FOR SUNDAY...ALLOWING
FOR SUNSHINE AND TEMPS A BIT BLO NORMAL.

EXTENDED: MRF HINTED THAT PCPN WOULD RETURN BY MONDAY. HOWEVER...
12Z AVN HAS BACKED OFF ON THIS SYSTEM. HAVE STAYED WITH PREVIOUS
THINKING OF CHC SHWRS FOR MON NITE/TUES. HIGH PRES ALLOWS FOR DRY DAY
WED. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE APRCHS BY THURS WITH CHC SHWRS ONCE
AGAIN.

.BTV...NONE.

RJS

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:25 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Orleans

When: May 30, 6:23 PM EST
Where: Orleans County, Lowell
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.800, -72.450

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Vermont in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Vermont, 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: 5300002.