Name: Hail in West Virginia, June 4, 2002
Start: 2002-06-04T20:45
End: 2002-06-04T20:45
Location: West Virginia

Where it happened

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 RNK wrote it up.

Thunderstorms during the evening of the 4th produced hail up to quarter size.

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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 1:30 PM EST, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 1:30 PM EST, 7 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
230 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

SHORT RANGE...

PRETTY UNSTABLE AND MOIST ATMOS OVER FA THIS AFTN...THRU THURSDAY.
SEEING SCTD CONVECTION...MAINLY ALG/WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE LATE THIS
AFTN...INTO THE EVENING. AS WARM FRONT LIFTING FURTHER NORTH/EAST
WILL KEEP ORGANIZED MCS AWAY FROM MY CWA. ANOTHER TYPICAL SUMMER DAY
EXPECTED WEDNESDAY WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF UPPER FEATURES...JUST
HEAT AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE DRIVING DIURNAL ACTIVITY...AND MAINLY
AGAIN WEST OF BLUE RIDGE...BUT WITH LEE TROF...COULD SEE SCTD
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PIEDMONT AS WELL...SO WILL HAVE A CHANCE THERE
TOO.

FRONT APPROACHING WED NIGHT...AND ARRIVING IN THE WRN PART OF FA
LATE THU MORNING...THEN SWINGING THROUGH IN THE AFTN. EXPECT TO SEE
A LINE OF SHRA/TSRA APPROACHING THE MTNS LATE WED NIGHT...BREAKING
APART SOMEWHAT...THEN REFIRING IN THE AFTN OUT IN THE PIEDMONT.
STILL THINK LIKELY POPS EARLY THURSDAY IN THE WEST...WITH 50 OUT
DURING THE DAY. LINGERING POPS THURSDAY NIGHT IN THE SOUTH AND
EAST...MAINLY UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

EXTENDED...

MODEL TRENDS SHOW HI PRS CONTROLLING OUR WX FRI-SUNDAY...WITH RETURN
FLOW SETTING BACK UP FOR LATE WEEKEND...INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AHD OF
NEXT FRONT. PLAN ON ADDING CHANCE POPS TO THE WEST MON NIGHT...AND
ENTIRE FA TUESDAY...WITH FNT ARRIVING INTO WRN FA.

PRELIMS
FCSTID = 5
ROA   70  90  70  82 /  20  30  40  50
LYH   66  90  66  84 /  20  30  40  50
DAN   70  92  70  87 /  10  20  30  40
BLF   65  83  65  76 /  30  50  50  60
LWB   61  81  61  75 /  40  50  50  60
BCB   65  85  66  79 /  20  50  40  60
TNB   65  82  63  76 /  30  50  40  60

.RNK...
NC...NONE.
VA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

WHP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:20 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
720 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

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

0400 PM    7 W YANCEYVILLE           NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/01/02   CASWELL                        TREES DOWN

0410 PM    2 SE HANGING ROCK         NC   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/01/02   STOKES                         REPORTED BY
PUBLIC

0420 PM    WALNUT GROVE              NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/01/02   STOKES                         TREES BLOCKING ROAD
                                          REPORTED BY OTHER PUBLIC

0620 PM    7 N JEFFERSON             NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/01/02   ASHE                           TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
                                          OTHER NC DOT

0412 PM    BLACKSBURG                VA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   MONTGOMERY                     REPORTED BY OFF DUTY
                                          WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE

0418 PM    BLACKSBURG                VA   .88 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   MONTGOMERY                     REPORTED BY OFF DUTY
                                          WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE

0545 PM    3 N NEW CASTLE            VA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   CRAIG                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

JW

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:51 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Mercer

When: June 4, 8:45 PM EST
Where: Mercer County, Princeton
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: UNKNOWN
Coordinates: 37.367, -81.100

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 West Virginia in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in West Virginia, 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: 5301371.