Hail, Cullman
- When
- May 2, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cullman County, Hanceville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $6,000
- Coordinates
- 34.070, -86.770
Golf ball size hail was reported in Hanceville.
Hail in Alabama, May 2, 1997
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
- $6,000
- 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.
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:57 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, May 2 to 3, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, May 2, 1997
- Hail and High Wind in Arkansas, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 2, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, May 2, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, May 2, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, May 2, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, May 2, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 2 to 15, 1997
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, May 1997
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: 5598823.