Hail in Alabama, August 2, 2002

Name: Hail in Alabama, August 2, 2002
Start: 2002-08-02T15:00
End: 2002-08-02T15:02
Location: Alabama

August 2, 2002 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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
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Wind
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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 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 Aug 2, 1:43 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 1:43 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
243 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002

AFTER AN ACTIVE DAY...SATELLITE SHOWS CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURES
BEGINNING TO WARM OVER THE FORECAST AREA AND RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING ISOLATED.  THUS...WILL DO A QUICK UPDATE
TO ZONES AND DROP OFF THE SCATTERED NATURE OF PRECIPITATION AND CALL
FOR A GENERAL ISOLATED COVERAGE THROUGH THE EVENING.  /10

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

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Washington

When: August 2, 3:00 PM CST to 3:02 PM CST
Where: Washington County, Millry
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 31.633, -88.317

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

Every storm in Alabama in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Alabama, August 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: 5314525.