1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 7:45 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 845 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002 UPDATED ZONES TO ADJUST POPS SLIGHTLY UPWARD OVER MIDSECTION OF FCST AREA AS CONVECTION HANGING IN THERE A LITTLE LATER THAN PAST SEVERAL EVENINGS. BELIEVE MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. OTHERWISE...NO CHANGES. FCST ID = 12 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds from a thunderstorm blew down trees near McIntosh.
Lightning struck a home near McIntosh and started a small fire which was quickly put out. The home suffered minor damage.
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, July 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: 5312241, 5312242.