Florida, 2002

Hail in Florida, April 29, 2002

April 29, 2002 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 29, 3:02 PM CST, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 3:02 PM CST, 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
212 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2002

REDVLPMNT OF WDLY SCT CONVCTN ALG FRONTAL AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES NOW
OCCURRING ON OUR WRN DOOSTEP AS SUSPECTED PER MIDNIGHT SHIFT. STARTED
W/ A GREAT FCST FROM MID SHIFT...HAD EVERYTHING PRETTY WELL COVERED.
MERELY NEEDED TO MOVE ALL EVENTS BACK A TAD UNTIL EARLY THIS EVE.
FINALLY MARINE ST LYR SITTING ON US EARLIER BROKE UP AS XPCTD GIVING
US SOME HEATING. WITH SUN ANGLE BEING HIGH UNTIL ABT 1800 CDT...
HEATING SHUD STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO REMAIN UNDERWAY. CONVECTION
IN AR MOVG THRU NRN MS EARLIER THSI AM WAS NOT PANNING OUT AS XPCTD
EARLIER AND CONSIDERED ASSESMENT THAT MODEL PHYSICS CANNOT PICK UP
EVERY DETAIL...BUT LATER LIT UP SOME CU AHEAD OF AN OLD OUTFLOW AFTER
BRKG UP AS IT MOVED SE. THE NEW CONVCN RESTARTED SE OF JAN ABT
MIDDAY. MESO ETA SHOWED A THETA-E RIDGE ALG WHICH THE MCS WAS
PROPAGATING AND THEN SHOWED SIGNS OF REBUILDING ITSELF...THE PROSPECT
WAS FRPMERLY GOOD CHC FOR PCPN IN NRN ZONES. AS WE GOT FURTHER INTO
THIS AFTERNOON THE MESO-ETA SOLN INDCD A THETA-E RIDGE ALG THE NRN
REACHES WHILST THE WS-ETA WAS SHOWING AN INTRUSION FURTHER SOUTH.
LOOKS LIKE THE WINNER IS...WS-ETA.  ATTM GOING TO LIKELY CAT FOR POP
WITH SAW3 IN EFFECT UNTIL 0100Z. WAITING PROVED THIS RUN DID PICK UP
THE CONVECTION AND RIGHT ON TIME. SEEING NO HARM IN BUMPING TO LIKELY
POPS WUD KNOCK SEQUENCE THIS EVE NOT TOO LONG AFTER SUNSET...AND NO
NOCTURNAL TSTMS XPCTD ATTM.

EXTENDED...MRF HAS STARTED TO CATCH UP WITH ITSELF NOW...THE PHASING
IS ONLY ABOUT 60 DEG OUT VICE YDAYS 180 DEG OUT...BUT THATS ALL TO
THE S...NRN REACHES OF MDL DOMAIN ARE STILL 180 DEG APART.
STILL XPCT FROPA FRI AND THINKING IS TO BE STEADY ON UNTIL THE 5 TO 7
DAY REACH SETTLES OUT...WHICH WE ARE HOPING COULD HAPPEN AS THE 240
HR LOOKS BETTER PHASED FROM RUN TO RUN...ENDING OUT WITH A NEGATIVELY
TILTED TROF IN THE NRN PLAINS. HOWEVER SHUD NOT GO ANY FURTHER W/
SPCULTN ON THAT ONE...

FIRE...NO CONCERNS.

MARINE...WIND SW THRU THU BCM N 15 W/FROPA FRI. GRADFIENT
STEEPENING WITH BLDG SEAS THRU WED.

/77/10

PRELIM NUMBERS...

MOB TB 067/087 068/086 074 77720
PNS TB 071/086 071/083 075 77720
DTS TB 071/084 071/083 075 77720
GZH TB 062/080 063/087 072 77720
2R0 TB 064/088 066/089 072 77720
61A TB 061/080 063/088 072 77720

.MOB
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Okaloosa

When
April 29, 3:55 PM CST to 3:56 PM CST
Where
Okaloosa County, Crestview
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
30.750, -86.600

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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: 5293352.