Hail, Marion
- When
- April 30, 1:26 AM CST to 1:30 AM CST
- Where
- Marion County, Hamilton
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.133, -87.983
Dime to nickel size hail was reported around Hamilton.
Hail in Alabama, April 30, 2002
1 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
- 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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 29, 8:14 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 8:14 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 914 PM CDT MON APR 29 2002 DEW POINTS ARE ON THE RISE THIS EVENING. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWING THAT SURFACE DEW POINT AXIS WAS DRIFTING NORTHWARD OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ALABAMA SINCE 4 PM. 0000 UTC RUC SHOWING PRECIPITATION BREAKING OUT ACROSS THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF ALABAMA THROUGH 1200 UTC. THE PRECIPITATION APPEARS TO DEVELOP ALONG COLD FRONT OR DEW POINT AXIS. CURRENT FORECAST IN LINE PRECIPITATION- WISE, BUT WILL PROBABLY DO SOME REWORDING. STILL LOOKING OVER TEMPERATURES AND MAY HAVE TO TWEAK THEM UP A TAD ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS. 65 .BHM...NONE.
The 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 30, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, April 30, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, April 30, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, April 30, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 30, 2002
- Flood in Puerto Rico, April 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, April 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: 5293126.