Hail, Scott
- When
- July 2, 1:40 PM EST
- Where
- Scott County, Gate City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.633, -82.583
Hail in Virginia, July 2, 2002
Dime size hail was reported in Gate City.
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 happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Dime size hail was reported in Gate City.
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 Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 9:30 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:30 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1030 AM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 UPDATED FCST TO REMOVE MORNING FOG. REMAINDER OF FCST ON TRACK AS UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE IN SUMMER WX PATTERN WITH RIDGE TO THE N AND W. UPR LVL FLO CARRIES WEAK IMPULSES SE INTO THE REGION. ALREADY A FEW TSRA ONGOING JUST N OF SW VA ZONES. FURTHER DESTABILIZATION WILL LEAD TO TSRA FORMING MAINLY IN HIER TERRAIN. MAXES SHOULD BE IN LOW-MID 90S MOST OF FA. NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED FOR THIS AFTERNOON. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 2, 1:38 PM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
238 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0235 PM 2 E MT CARMEL TN .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 HAWKINS REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
0235 PM 1 W KINGSPORT TN .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 SULLIVAN REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
DAEThe 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, July 2 to 4, 2002
- Heat in Connecticut, July 2 to 4, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 2, 2002
- Flood in Texas, July 2 to 3, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, July 2, 2002
- Flood in Texas, July 2 to 6, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 2, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 2, 2002
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 2, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 2, 2002
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, July 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: 5308810.