1 lightning, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jun 30, 2:05 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 305 PM CDT SUN JUN 30 2002 ORGANIZED CONVECTION EARLIER TODAY FIRED ALONG MID LEVEL INVERTED TROF ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI/ALABAMA STATE LINE. ACTIVITY IS PUSHING WEST AWAY FROM ALABAMA DUE TO NORTHEAST MID LEVEL FLOW. CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON ENHANCED BY VORT MAX OVER NW GEORGIA. WILL LIKELY NEED TO INCREASE POPS FOR TONIGHT...AS CURRENT CONVECTION WILL NOT LIKELY DIMINISH UNTIL AFTER 00Z. MODELS DO NOT SHOW MUCH CHANGE IN SYNOPTIC PATTERN NEXT TWO DAYS WITH UPPER TROF ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO AND RIDGE AXIS ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY. MESO-ETA HAS SEVERAL VORT MAXES MOVING ACROSS THE AREA...BUT ACTIVITY WILL BE MAINLY DIURNAL AND WILL KEEP POPS 30% FOR THE DAYTIME PERIOD. AVN/MRF STILL SHOWING AN UPPER HIGH BUILDING TO THE NORTH OF ALABAMA BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THIS FEATURE MAY HAVE LITTLE IMPACT ON AREA OTHER THAN TO DECREASE CHANCES OF RAIN SLIGHTLY ACROSS EXTREME NORTH ALABAMA. SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR NORMAL WITH LITTLE VARIATION IN DAY TO DAY NUMBERS. HSV 70 91 70 91/ 10 20 10 20 BHM 70 90 70 90/ 10 30 10 30 MGM 70 91 71 91/ 10 30 10 30 .BHM...NONE. 58
ALZ001>050-302100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 139 PM CDT SUN JUN 30 2002 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA... A WARM...MOIST...AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN ACROSS ALABAMA THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. THE COMBINATION OF ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 30 MILES AN HOUR...MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. NO ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR: HUNTSVILLE...3 BIRMINGHAM...3 MONTGOMERY...3
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Two adjacent homes were struck by lightning in Decatur. Fires were ignited in both homes and each sustained damage.
Dime size hail was reported in Massey.
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: 5300675, 5300676.