Hail, Covington
- When
- March 12, 12:50 PM CST to 12:51 PM CST
- Where
- Covington County, Florala
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.000, -86.333
Hail in Alabama, March 12, 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 Mar 12, 12:20 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 12:20 PM CST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1220 PM CST TUE MAR 12 2002 UPDATED ZONES ONCE AGAIN TO REFLECT CURRENT RADAR AND TSTM INTENSITY TRENDS. MENTIONED STRONG STORMS IN ALL ZONES. OVER LAST HOUR OR SO HAVE HAD WIND DAMAGE AND LARGE HAIL OVER FAR EASTERN CWFA IN ASSOCIATION WITH LINE OF STRONG STORMS AND A FEW ISOLATED CELLS JUST IN ADVANCE OF THIS LINE. ANOTHER AREA OF CONVECTION...MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE...IS DEVELOPING TO THE WEST OF THE FCST AREA UNDER THE COLD UPPER LOW. EXPECT THIS TREND OF CONVECTION TO CONTINUE INTO FCST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE THESE STORMS WILL BE LESS NUMEROUS...THEY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL OVER CWFA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. 12 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE MS...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Avalanche in Idaho, March 12, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, March 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, March 12, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, March 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, March 12, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 12, 2002
- Dense Fog in Oklahoma, March 12, 2002
- High Surf in California, March 12, 2002
- Hail in Mississippi, March 12, 2002
- Hail in Georgia, March 12, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, March 12 to 13, 2002
- Hail in Texas, March 12, 2002
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, March 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: 5285797.