Hail, Pike
- When
- May 9, 1:40 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, 1 mi NW of Otwell
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.467, -87.117
Hail in Indiana, May 9, 2003
2 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
- 2
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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 9, 1:00 AM CST, 12 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 1:00 AM CST, 12 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 MESOETA PAINTS UPSTREAM CONVECTION INTO NRN REACHES OF FA THIS AM. THAT MAY WEAKEN THE CAP...IF NOT...MESOETA EJECTS UPPER PERTURBATION ACROSS FA 18-21Z...WHEN LOWER ATMOSPHERE IS SUFFICIENTLY DESTABILIZED TO SUPPORT UPDRAFTS. THIS PERTURBATION COULD BE ENOUGH TO BREAK 9-11C H7 CAP...IF IT IS NOT WEAKENED ALREADY FROM AM CONVECTION. WL THEREFORE GO UP TO CHC CAT FROM SLIGHT CHC FOR CONVECTION TODAY. AFTER THAT SHOULD BE A LULL THOUGH A CONTINUING LOW CHC POP THRU SAT. COLD FRONT STILL POISED FOR SAT NIGHT W/BEST POPS THEN. STILL AWAITING THE REST OF THE EXTENDED GUIDANCE BUT SO FAR SUNDAY-POST IS STILL LOOKING COOLER/DRIER TO START THE WORKWEEK W/NEXT CHC PCPN COMING BY WED-THU. MAY SEEK TO SHIFT FM CONVECTIVE TO STRATIFORM PCPN MID WEEK NEXT WITH SHOWALTERS WELL INTO THE POSITIVE RANGE. OTHERWISE ANTICIPATE LTL CHANGE TO GOING FORECAST. .PAH...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 4:00 AM CST, 9 hours 40 minutes before
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-101000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 500 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THE LOWEST LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SUFFICIENTLY UNSTABLE TO SUPPORT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...ESPECIALLY AS THE DAY WEARS ON. HOWEVER...WARMING ALOFT COULD CAP OFF THE ATMOSPHERE AND INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVING IN THIS AFTERNOON MAY BE JUST ENOUGH TO BREAK THE CAP AND IF IT DOES...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE QUICK WITH STORMS BECOMING STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...WHEN A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION. THE BEST CHANCE OF STORMS...INCLUDING STRONG ONES...WILL BE WITH THE FRONT LATE SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Pike
- When
- May 9, 1:52 PM CST to 2:01 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, 2 mi E of Campbelltown
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.433, -87.217
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 Hail in Oklahoma, May 9, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 9, 2003
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 9 to 10, 2003
- Heavy Rain in Missouri, May 9, 2003
- Rip Current in Florida, May 9, 2003
- Rip Current in Florida, May 9, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 9, 2003
- Flooding in Iowa, May 9 to 28, 2003
- Hail and High Wind in Illinois, May 9 to 10, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in West Virginia, May 9, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 9, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 9, 2003
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, May 2003
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: 5352923, 5352924.