Hail, Cullman
- When
- May 30, 12:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cullman County, 3 mi E of Cullman
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.183, -86.783
Dime size hail was reported just east of Cullman.
Hail in Alabama, May 30, 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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 1:20 AM CST, 10 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 1:20 AM CST, 10 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 220 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2002 FORECAST MODELS ARE IN BETTER AGREEMENT TONIGHT...BUT IN THE ABSENCE OF STRONG SYNOPTIC FORCING...THAT STILL LEAVES ME TRYING TO PUT THE FINGER ON LOCATIONS OF BEST CHANCES OF RAIN. SITUATION REMAINS ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED...DIGGING/RETROGRADING UPPER LOW HEADING INTO THE WESTERN GULF...AND EASTERLY SURFACE FLOW FROM THE ATLANTIC. CURRENT AREA OF SHOWERS PIN-WHEELING AROUND UPPER LOW NORTHWARD THROUGH MS...LOOKS TO SKIRT WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE FORECAST AREA. OF MORE CONCERN FOR TODAY...SHOWERS IN CENTRAL GA WITH INVERTED TROUGH. DEEP MOIST LAYER REMAINS OVER THE FORECAST AREA WITH PW RUNNING JUST UNDER 1.5 INCHES. ON HEATING OF THE DAY ALONE...THIS SHOULD YIELD SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE TUNE OF 40 OR 50 POPS. MINIMUM POPS WOULD BE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES...AS LOW PULLS AWAY FROM THE AREA. EASTERLY WAVE/SURFACE TROUGH BRING ENHANCED INSTABILITY AND CAPE TO AN AREA ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF AN ANNISTON...CHILTON... LINDEN LINE...BELIEVE IT IS WORTHY OF LIKELY POPS IN THIS AREA. POPS DECREASE RAPIDLY AFTER SUNSET TONIGHT. FOR FRIDAY...AS BEST MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY DRIFT SOUTH...WILL STRATIFY CHANCE POPS NORTH TO SOUTH...20 OR 30 NORTH...TO 50 SOUTH. WEAK WIND SHIFT OR FRONTAL BOUNDARY SNEAKS INTO THE NORTH SATURDAY...AND WITH AVAILABLE MOISTURE WILL BE A POSSIBLE TRIGGER TO MORE SHOWERS. INTO THE EXTENDED PERIOD...MODELS CURRENTLY IN FAVOR OF LIFTING CUT OFF LOW NORTHWARD. FORECASTING CUTOFF LOWS SUCH AS THESE ARE INHERENTLY RISKY...AND WITH RIDGE FOLDING OVER...HAVE MY DOUBTS OVER THE LOW LIFTING. EURO MORE OR LESS SPINS THE LOW OUT IN THE GULF...ABSORBED INTO SUBTROPICAL...SUMMERY LOOKING REGIME. REGARDLESS OF THE PATH OF THE LOW...LOOKS LIKE WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS WILL REMAIN...AND CLIMO TEMPS AND POPS LOOKS ADVISABLE. WITNESS YESTERDAY...TEMPS GREATLY DEPENDENT ON CLOUDS AND PRECIP COVERAGE. WILL TONE DOWN HIGHS AND TWEAK UP LOWS A TAD DUE TO SAME. ...PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... HSV 82 66 85 65 / 50 10 30 5 BHM 83 67 85 67 / 50 20 40 10 MGM 84 67 86 68 / 60 30 50 20 .BHM...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:27 AM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before
ALZ001>050-301327- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 727 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2002 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA AND MAY BE MORE NUMEROUS ACROSS THE WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL SECTIONS. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WHERE STORMS PERSIST AND SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR. ALTHOUGH A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG...THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:13 UTC.
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
- Flash Flood and Flood in Florida, May 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 30, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Wisconsin, May 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, May 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 30 to 31, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Florida, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, May 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, May 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: 5294649.