Thunderstorm Wind, Walker
- When
- March 30, 3:15 AM CST
- Where
- Walker County, Countywide
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 33.817, -87.250
A few trees were knocked down across the county.
Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 30, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $3,000
- 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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 30, 2:19 AM CST, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:19 AM CST, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 219 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 QUITE BUSY EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 54 IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM. PLAN TO MAKE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. LATEST ETA RUN HAS VORTICITY MAXIMUM...ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER-LEVEL LOW OVER NORTH MEXICO...MOVING ACROSS FORECAST AREA SUNDAY AFTERNOON. CONVECTION SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE FAIRLY ACTIVE OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS WEEKEND. EXPECT HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER NORTHERN THIRD COUNTIES...WITH SEVERE WEATHER THREAT PICKING UP AGAIN ON SUNDAY OVER ENTIRE FORECAST AREA. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... HSV 66/54 67/43 66 88920 BHM 70/60 73/44 69 97920 MGM 80/63 78/51 73 64630 .BHM...NONE. 70
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 29, 9:21 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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.Local storm report, Mar 29, 11:17 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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.Local storm report, Mar 30, 12:35 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1235 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1125 PM 3SE ARAB AL WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02 MARSHALL SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN FROM JUST EAST
OF ARAB TO NEAR
ALBERTVILLE. ONE HOME HAD
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
POSSIBLE TORNADO.Local storm report, Mar 30, 12:49 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1249 AM CST SAT MAR 30 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.
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.
1125 PM 3SE ARAB AL WIND DAMAGE
03/29/02 MARSHALL SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN FROM JUST EAST
OF ARAB TO NEAR
ALBERTVILLE. ONE HOME HAD
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
POSSIBLE TORNADO.Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:37 AM CST, 38 minutes before
ALZ003>004-007>008-010>018-020-022>026-301100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 237 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR CENTER...IN CHEROKEE COUNTY...WEST TO NEAR FAYETTE AT 240 AM CST. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 54 AS THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE AREA... FRANKLIN...LAWRENCE...MORGAN... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 54 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM... BLOUNT...CHEROKEE...CULLMAN...DEKALB...ETOWAH... FAYETTE...JEFFERSON...LAMAR...MARION...MARSHALL... PICKENS...SHELBY...ST CLAIR...TUSCALOOSA...WALKER... WINSTON...
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Texas, March 30, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 30, 2002
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, March 30 to 31, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 30, 2002
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, March 30, 2002
- Tornadoes in Texas, March 30, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, March 30 to 31, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, March 30 to 31, 2002
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 30 to 31, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, March 30 to 31, 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: 5284656.