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 Mar 29, 8:32 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 832 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 SVR TSTM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTH ALABAMA. LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS THE COLD FRONT FROM SW TN INTO CENTRAL KY... SLOWLY MOVING SOUTHEAST. SEVERE CONVECTION ONGOING ALONG THE FRONT WITH SCATTERED ACTIVITY DEVELOPING IN NW AL ATTM. MANY HAIL REPORTS HAVE COME IN FROM THIS ACTIVITY....THEREFORE GREATEST THREAT APPEARS TO BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE STILL POSSIBLE. LINE SHOULD CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS BUT SOME DECREASE IN INTENSITY SHOULD OCCUR OVERNIGHT. WITH ISSUE UPDATE SHORTLY...BUT CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE HAS SITUATION HANDLED QUITE GOOD. MAIN UPDATE CHANGE WILL BE TO BUMP TEMPS UP A TAD IN SOME LOCATIONS...MAINLY WEST AND NORTH. DEW POINTS IN THE 60S MOST SPOTS...SOUTH WINDS TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT...AND INCREASING CLOUDS. 75 .BHM...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
921 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 PM NEWBURG AL 0.88 IN HAIL
03/29/02 FRANKLIN NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN EASTERN
FRANKLIN COUNTY NEAR
NEWBURG.
0905 PM HATTON AL 0.88 IN HAIL
03/29/02 LAWRENCE NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL
ACROSS WESTERN LAWRENCE
NEAR HATTON.
0909 PM MOULTON AL 0.88 IN HAIL
03/29/02 LAWRENCE NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN MOULTON.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1117 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM 7NE MOULTON AL 0.88 IN HAIL
03/29/02 LAWRENCE NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED NEAR CADDO.
935 PM TRINITY AL 0.88 IN HAIL
03/29/02 MORGAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED NEAR TRINITY.
0935 PM 4E MOULTON AL 1.00 IN HAIL
03/29/02 LAWRENCE QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED EAST OF MOULTON
NEAR THE COUNTY LINE.
0935 PM 7NE MOULTON AL 1.75 IN HAIL
03/29/02 LAWRENCE GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED NEAR CADDO.
1008 PM 4E MOULTON AL FUNNEL CLOUD
03/29/02 LAWRENCE POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED
JUST EAST OF MOULTON BY
FIRE FIGHTER.
1020 PM NEEL AL 2.00 IN HAIL
03/29/02 MORGAN TWO INCH DIAMETER SIZE
HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR
THE CITY OF NEEL.The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:32 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Dime size hail was observed just southeast of Fort Payne on Lookout Mountain. Minor roof damage also occurred in the same area.
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, March 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: 5284658.