Alabama, 2002

Hail in Alabama, April 3, 2002

April 3, 2002 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 3, 2:40 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:40 PM CST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
240 PM CST WED APR 3 2002

COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH FORECAST AREA AT THIS TIME WILL BE EAST OF
AREA BEFORE SUNRISE. WITH SEA BREEZE FRONT AND COLD FRONT CONVERGING
OVER SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF FORECAST AREA...MAINLY COASTAL. FIRST PART
OF  PERIOD OF FORECAST WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON JUST WHERE AND
HOW STRONG ANY STORMS ARE AT ISSUE TIME. IN ANY EVENT...
PRECIPITATION WILL FADE QUICKLY AFTER LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND/OR
AFTER FROPA WITH THE COOLER AIR COMING IN. SURFACE FRONT WILL TAKE
ITS TIME MOVING THROUGH THE COASTAL ZONES. FRONT WILL FINALLY GET
KICKED SOUTHWARD WHEN WEAK WAVE IN H5 FLOW ARRIVES OVER AREA LATE
THURSDAY...UNTIL THEN CLOUDY SKIES SHOULD HANG IN WITH THE  ZONAL H8
FLOW THROUGH MOST OF THURSDAY...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN HALF OF
AREA. COOLER THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT WITH A SLOW WARMUP THROUGH
THE WEEKEND. NEXT FRONT APPROACHES FIRST OF WEEK AS UPPER TROF
NEARS. EXTENDED ALREADY HAS RAIN FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY ...WILL
LEAVE AS IS AND MAKE WEDNESDAY PARTLY CLOUDY ON BACK SIDE OF UPPER
TROF.

FIRE...CLOUDY AND COOLER CONDITIONS ON THURSDAY WILL KEEP SURFACE
HUMIDITY ABOVE GUIDLINES...FRIDAY WILL BE DRIER.

MARINE...WIND SHIFT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE BAYS AND COASTAL WATERS
THIS EVENING...WINDS WILL STAY BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. /11

PRELIM CCF...
MOB EU 048/069 046/072 048 11100
PNS EU 052/070 048/072 050 11200
DTS EU 055/070 051/071 053 11310
GZH EU 045/072 043/072 041 11000
2R0 EU 041/065 039/071 041 11000
61A EU 045/072 043/072 041 11000

.MOB...
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Baldwin

When
April 3, 3:40 PM CST to 3:45 PM CST
Where
Baldwin County, Daphne
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
30.600, -87.900

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

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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: 5293162.