1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Mar 9, 2:29 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 229 AM CST SUN MAR 09 2003 COLD FRONT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF ALABAMA WILL MOVE MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. VORT MAX/IMPULSE WILL MOVE RAPIDLY FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA MAINLY THIS MORNING. LATEST RADAR LOOPS SHOW MAINLY LIGHT PRECIP ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA AT THE PRESENT TIME. FOR TODAY...WILL GENERALLY GO WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS ACROSS THE CENTRAL SECTIONS...WITH SCATTERED POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH. WILL ALSO MENTION THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS. RAPID DRYING WILL TAKE PLACE TONIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. NICE DAY ON TAP FOR MONDAY WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES CENTRAL SECTIONS AND PARTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS FURTHER TO THE SOUTH. FOR TEMPERATURES USED A BLEND OF MODEL GUIDANCE TODAY AND TONIGHT... THEN WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE ON MONDAY DUE TO MORE EXPECTED SUNSHINE AND ONLY WEAK COLD AIR ADVECTION. LOOKING AT THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK...PATTERN APPEARS TO BE RATHER QUIET AS WEAKER ZONAL FLOW PREVAILS. WILL SHOW AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW DEVELOPS...BUT WILL HOLD OFF ON AN MENTION OF PRECIP FOR NOW. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. BHM 65/38/63/38/66 10000 MGM 68/42/68/41/70 4-000 .BHM...NONE.
ALZ011>015-017>050-082100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 130 PM CST SAT MAR 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF TEXAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATER TONIGHT AND INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PANOLA...TO DEMOPOLIS...TO TROY...TO TEXASVILLE. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. NORTH OF THIS LINE...SOME STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL. MINOR RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO OCCUR ALONG PARTS OF THE BLACK WARRIOR RIVER AT SELDEN LOCK AND DAM...AND ON THE TOMBIGBEE RIVER AT DEMOPOLIS LOCK AND DAM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NORTH TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH ARE POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY. HOWEVER...THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH STRONG TO SEVERE THRESHOLDS AT THIS TIME. BOTH THE BLACK WARRIOR RIVER AT SELDEN LOCK AND DAM...AND THE TOMBIGBEE RIVER AT DEMOPOLIS LOCK AND DAM...ARE EXPECTED TO CREST ON SUNDAY...AND FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE ON MONDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER TONIGHT AND INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
501 AM CST SUN MAR 09 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 AM GOSHEN AL 1.75 IN HAIL
03/09/03 PIKE HEAVY ACCUMULATION. HAIL
RANGING 3/4 TO 13/4
INCH.
0435 AM LITTLE OAK AL 1.75 IN HAIL
03/09/03 PIKE HEAVY ACCUMULATIONThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Penny to golf ball size hail fell in and near Fort Deposit.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, March 2003
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: 5348086.