Thunderstorm Wind, Madison
- When
- May 13, 10:30 AM CST
- Where
- Madison County, Harvest
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.850, -86.767
Trees were blown down and one landed on a home in Harvest.
Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 13, 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
- $5,000
- 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 May 13, 7:50 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 7:50 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 850 AM CDT MON MAY 13 2002 WILL ISSUE AN UPDATE BY 1400 UTC...MAINLY TO FRESHEN THINGS UP. WILL HAVE TO NUDGE HIGHS UP A BIT IN HSV...TCL...BHM...AND ANB GROUPS. MORNING SUNSHINE HAS ALREADY CAUSED TEMPS TO GET INTO MID 70S. BASED ON UPSTREAM OBS... WILL ALSO INCREASE POST FRONTAL WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND INDICATE CAUTION ADVISED ON AREA LAKES IN TN VALLEY. AS FOR SEVERE STORMS...NOW THINK MAIN THREAT AREA IS FROM HSV-BHM-DEMOPOLIS EASTWARD FROM 11 AM UNTIL 4 PM OR SO. .BHM...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 13, 6:33 AM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
ALZ001>050-131630- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 733 AM CDT MON MAY 13 2002 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A STRONG COLD FRONT...EXTENDING FROM WESTERN TENNESSEE ACROSS NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...AND BACK INTO LOUISIANA...WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EAST TODAY. AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...SOUTH WINDS WILL PUMP WARM... MOIST...GULF AIR INTO NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...WILL MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN ALABAMA THIS MORNING. THESE STORMS WILL REACH THE INTERSTATE 20 AND 59 CORRIDOR LATE THIS MORNING...AND MOVE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 THIS AFTERNOON. DAYTIME HEATING AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL ALLOW THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME UNSTABLE...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A HUNTSVILLE TO BIRMINGHAM TO TUSCALOOSA LINE. AS THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES THIS AREA...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WIND...AND LARGE HAIL. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, May 13, 7:16 AM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
ALZ001>050-131630- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 733 AM CDT MON MAY 13 2002 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A STRONG COLD FRONT...EXTENDING FROM WESTERN TENNESSEE ACROSS NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...AND BACK INTO LOUISIANA...WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EAST TODAY. AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...SOUTH WINDS WILL PUMP WARM... MOIST...GULF AIR INTO NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...WILL MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN ALABAMA THIS MORNING. THESE STORMS WILL REACH THE INTERSTATE 20 AND 59 CORRIDOR LATE THIS MORNING...AND MOVE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 THIS AFTERNOON. DAYTIME HEATING AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL ALLOW THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME UNSTABLE...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A HUNTSVILLE TO BIRMINGHAM TO TUSCALOOSA LINE. AS THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES THIS AREA...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WIND...AND LARGE HAIL. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING.
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:27 UTC.
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
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 13, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 13 to 21, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 13 to 14, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 13, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
More
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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: 5294570.