Hail, Walton
- When
- July 3, 2:15 PM EST
- Where
- Walton County, 3 mi NW of Santa Rosa Beach
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.400, -86.267
Dime size hail reported near the south side of Choctawhatchee Bay by the public.
Hail in Florida, July 3, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 9:00 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 9:00 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1000 AM EDT WED JUL 3 2002 LOOKS LIKE WE ARE LOCKED INTO A RATHER COMPLEX...MUDDLED DISTURBED PATTERN WITH RELATIVELY WEAK SURFACE PRESURE GRADIENTS THROUGH MOST OF THE REMAINING WEEK. THE PERSISTENT ELONGATED TROUGH...EXTENDING SOUTHWARD FROM JUST OFF THE EASTERN SEABOARD ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FLORIDA PENINSULA...IS PRODUCING A GENERALLY NORTHERLY FLOW ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CONTINUES TO SHOW ROTATION ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST NEAR VERO BEACH...WITH WEAK RIPPLES MOVING AROUND THE TROUGH. ONE IS CURRENTLY ROUNDING THE TROUGH OVER THE SOUTHEAST GULF WITH ANOTHER MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS GEORGIA...WHICH SHOULD ENHANCE SEABREEZE DRIVEN CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. CURRENT FORECAST TRENDS HAVE ALL OF THIS WELL IN HAND...WITH POPS CLOSE TO CLIMATOLOGY...AND I WILL MAKE MAINLY COSMETIC CHANGES TO THE MORNING PUBLIC FORECAST PACKAGE. THERE CONTINUE TO BE NO MAJOR CONCERNS WITH FIRE WEATHER. THE WEAK SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT IS FORECAST TO STRENGTHEN A BIT FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS...AS PRESSURES FALL TO THE NORTH IN RESPONSE TO THE APPROACHING S/WV OUT OF GEORGIA...AND THIS TREND HANDLED WELL IN THE CURRENT MARINE FORECASTS. .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. DUVAL
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 3, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, July 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 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: 5306854.