1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Aug 2, 8:50 PM CST, 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 950 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002 SHORTWAVE IS CAUSING THINGS TO FIRE ALONG THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. BUMPING UP THE POPS TO REFLECT. .BHM...NONE. 90
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
524 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0448 PM TUSCALOOSA AL 50 MPH TSTM GUST
08/02/02 TUSCALOOSA SEVERAL TREES DOWN,
DAMAGING HOUSES NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF 1ST
STREET EAST AND 25TH AVE
EAST. REPORTED BY
TRAINED SPOTTER.
0452 PM TUSCALOOSA AL 50 MPH TSTM GUST
08/02/02 TUSCALOOSA TREE DOWN ACROSS
RAIL-ROAD TRACK AT 6TH
AVE EAST. DIME SIZE HAIL
ALSO REPORTED. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR FORMAT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
524 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0448 PM TUSCALOOSA AL 50 MPH TSTM GUST
08/02/02 TUSCALOOSA SEVERAL TREES DOWN,
DAMAGING HOUSES NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF 1ST
STREET EAST AND 25TH AVE
EAST. REPORTED BY
TRAINED SPOTTER.
0452 PM TUSCALOOSA AL 50 MPH TSTM GUST
08/02/02 TUSCALOOSA 0.75 INCH HAIL
TREE DOWN ACROSS RAIL-ROAD TRACK AT
6TH AVE EAST. DIME SIZE
HAIL ALSO REPORTED.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
910 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0900 PM STEVENSON AL WIND DAMAGE
08/02/02 JACKSON COUNTY 911 OFFICE
REPORTED TREES DOWN
ACROSS HIGHWAY 72 AND
COUNTY ROAD 287PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1001 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM STEVENSON AL WIND DAMAGE
08/02/02 JACKSON EMA REPORTED NUMEROUS
TREES DOWN AROUND
STEVENSONThe Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:39 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Golf ball size hail was observed in an area from near Lacon all the way to the Cullman County line.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, August 2002
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: 5313320.