Hail, Escambia
- When
- July 3, 1:17 PM CST to 1:22 PM CST
- Where
- Escambia County, Brewton
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 31.117, -87.067
Hail in Alabama, July 3, 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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 9:50 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 9:50 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1050 AM CDT WED JUL 3 2002 WILL REMOVE MORNING WORDING IN COASTAL ZONES. MAY ADJUST POPS IN A FEW ZONES BUT NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED TO ONGOING FORECAST./11 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:17 UTC.
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
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 3, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, July 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, July 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: 5312156.