1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 31, 12:31 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1231 PM CST SUN MAR 31 2002 UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE SEVERE WORDING OVER MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES AND CHOCTAW COUNTY IN ALABAMA AND ANNOUNCE THE CANCELLATION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN THE SAME AREAS. CONVECTION IS WEAKENING CONSIDERABLY FROM WHAT IS WAS A LITTLE WHILE AGO. HOWEVER...SURFACE TEMPERATURES OVER THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHCENTRAL ALABAMA HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S. JUST COORDINATED NEW WATCH WITH SPC...WILL PICK UP ON EASTERN EDGE WHERE WW 64 LEFT OFF AT 1 PM. WILL WATCH PROGRESS OF STORMS THROUGH THE PANHANDLE AS SEVERE THREAT CONTINUES FOR A LITTLE WHILE. OTHERWISE...DECENT COOLING BEHIND THE LINE WITH TEMPS REMAINING IN THE LOWER TO MID 60S. ALSO THINKING IT WILL BE SLOW TO CLEAR OVERNIGHT JUDGING FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY. WILL DISSECT THIS FURTHER FOR 4 PM ZONE ISSUANCES. .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
ALZ051-053-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-311815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1159 AM CST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 64: IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI: WAYNE...PERRY...GREENE...STONE...GEORGE IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA: CHOCTAW THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Golfball size hail was reported along U. S. Highway 84 just north of Sanford. No damage was reported.
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
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