1 rip current, 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 Jun 28, 1:45 AM CST, 8 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 245 AM CDT FRI JUN 28 2002 LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION SHOULD BE EAST OFFORECAST AREA BY FORECAST TIME...MAY STILL BE SOME LINGERING RAIN OVER THE EAST AND NORTHERN ZONES. UPPER LOW THAT HAS BEEN NORTHWEST OF AREA FOR MOST OF WEEK HAS BEEN ABSORBED BY UPPER TROF MOVING ACROSS MID SECTION OF THE COUNTRY. THIS TROF MOVES EAST AND CONTINUES TO WEAKEN BUT NOT BEFORE GIVING NORTHERN ZONES ONE MORE GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE DAY TODAY. FURTHER SOUTH...SCATTERED SEA BREEZE ACTIVITY WILL ONCE AGAIN DOT THE COASTAL AREAS. PRECIPITABLE WATER REMAINS BETWEEN 1.75 AND AROUND 2 INCHES THROUGH THE WEEKEND...EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WEEKEND WITH LITTLE DAY TO DAY CHANGE IN HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURES. EXTENDED WILL BE A CONTINUATION OF SAME WITH SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. NOTHING OF NOTE IN FIRE WEATHER FORECAST...CONTINUED HUMID WITH AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE MOVING INLAND. MARINE...AS UPPER TROF MOVES EAST OF FORECAST AREA A WEAK SURFACE LOW DEVELOPS OVER THE SOUTHEAST. WILL NEED TO ADJUST SURFACE WINDS TO ACCOUNT FOR WEST TO NORTHWEST DIRECTION LATER IN THE MARINE EXTENDED. /11 MOB BB 088/072 090/072 091 11313 PNS BB 087/073 089/074 090 11313 DTS BB 087/077 087/076 088 11313 GZH TB 087/070 090/071 090 11645 2RO TB 086/069 090/071 090 11645 61A TB 087/070 090/071 090 11645 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-281700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 600 AM CDT FRI JUN 28 2002 A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL DRIFT EAST ACROSS THE MID SOUTH TODAY. THIS TROUGH IN CONJUNCTION WITH A MOIST AIR MASS WILL SPAWN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...GENERALLY NORTH OF AN ANDALUSIA...EVERGREEN...WAYNESBORO LINE. SOUTH OF THAT LINE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE SEA BREEZE AND DRIFT INLAND. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS...WITH PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING SPOTS AND ROADWAYS POSSIBLE....ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT RECEIVED A HEAVY RAIN ON THURSDAY. MOTORIST ARE ENCOURAGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION...SLOW DOWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING HEAVY RAIN AND BE PREPARED TO STOP WHEN APPROACHING WATER COVERED ROADWAYS OR UNDERPASSES. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS OUTLOOK IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MOB.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A male vacationing with his family drowned in rough surf near Fort Morgan. The man was swimming in the rough water and disappeared. Paramedics were able to get him ashore but the man died.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Baldwin | 2002-06-28 | 35 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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, June 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: 5302717.