Hail, Covington
- When
- March 9, 10:05 AM CST to 10:07 AM CST
- Where
- Covington County, Lockhart
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.017, -86.350
Hail in Alabama, March 9, 2003
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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 9, 2:35 AM CST, 7 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 2:35 AM CST, 7 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 235 AM CST SUN MAR 9 2003 SHORT TERM...SURFACE FRONT WAS JUST OFFSHORE AT 1 AM. FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MEANDERS OVER THE NEARSHORE WATERS...POSSIBLY JUST MOVING INLAND BEFORE NEXT COLD FRONT ARRIVES LATER TODAY. H5 FLOW ZONAL SO WONT BE MUCH OF A PUSH TO EITHER FRONT UNTIL UNTIL H5 WAVE SEEN IN THE WATER VAPOR AND RUC DATA ARRIVES THIS AFTERNOON TO PUSH THE MESS OUT OF HERE. MAY BE A FEW STRONG OR POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS THIS MORNING...LIKELY HAIL IN THE ELEVATED STORMSA NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT...ALTHOUGH MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES ARE NOT ALL THAT COOL. A CHANCE OF RAIN OVER FORECAST AREA UNTIL AFTER COLD FRONT PASSES. CLOUDS SHOULD THIN OUT AFTER H7 TROF PASSES LATE THIS AFTERNOON. MORE THAN ONE DAY OF NICE WEATHER FOR A CHANGE...SHOULD BE OK THROUGH WEDNESDAY...COOL NIGHTS AND MILD AFTERNOONS. MAY NEED TO CONTINUE DENSE FOG UNTIL THROUGH MID MORNING...H5 TROF AND VORT MAX MOVING ACROSS LOUISIANA MAY PROVIDE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL VERTICAL MOTION TO IMPROVE THE VISIBILITY...AT LEAST NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT. WILL NOT VARY MUCH FROM GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES. EXTENDED...NO CHANGES. FIRE...NO CONCERNS TODAY...WILL BEGIN TO DRY OUT TUESDAY WITH AFTERNOON HUMIDITY DROPPING BELOW 40 PERCENT. MARINE...WINDS WILL LIKELY STAY BELOW CAUTION LEVELS AS THE COLD FRONT CROSSES THE COASTAL WATERS THIS EEVENING. NOT EXPECTING ANY MAJOR PROBLEMS OVER THE MARINE AREA WITH REGARD TO WINDS AND SEAS...WILL KEEP FOG IN FOR THIS MORNING. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... MOB TB 072/049 068/046 074 117-0 PNS TB 072/052 068/049 072 11810 DTS TB 071/053 069/052 070 11810 GZH TB 072/045 068/041 073 11610 2RO TB 069/041 065/039 072 11500 61A TB 071/044 067/040 073 11610 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 6:00 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-091800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE A 600 AM CST SUN MAR 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...(TODAY AND TONIGHT) A WARM FRONT WAS DRIFTING INLAND THIS MORNING AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING WILL TAPER OFF LATER THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...MAINLY THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY) NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...STORM SPOTTERS AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 9, 9:55 AM CST, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE, AL
955 AM CST SUN MAR 9 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0800 AM HIGHLAND HOME AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/09/03 CRENSHAW
926 AM 1 E FAIRFIELD AL HAIL
03/09/03 CONECUH MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT
INTERSECTION OF CR 42
AND CR 59.
0930 AM LIBERTYVILLE AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/09/03 CONECUH
0936 AM SANFORD AL .75 INCH HAIL
03/09/03 COVINGTON
10Local storm report, Mar 9, 10:02 AM CST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE, AL
1002 AM CST SUN MAR 9 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
923 AM BREWTON AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/09/03 ESCAMBIA
/10The 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
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- Hail in Mississippi, March 9, 2003
- Hail in Mississippi, March 9, 2003
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: 5347305.