1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Apr 3, 2:15 AM CST, 11 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 315 AM CDT TUE APR 03 2001 CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES WARM FRONT LOCATED FROM SOUTH-CENTRAL KS...ALONG MO/AR BORDER TO NEAR BNA. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS MORNING...WITH SHOWERS STARTING TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF TN VALLEY. SHRA/TSTMS ALSO MOVING ACROSS AREAS NORTH OF WARM FRONT. MODELS HANDLING OF SITUATION CONTINUES TO BE POOR. MOVEMENT OF WARM FRONT WILL DETERMINE POPS OVER THROUGH TOMORROW...MODELS SEEM TO AGREE THAT WARM FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH TODAY...HOW FAR IS THE QUESTION. HAVE LEANED TOWARD AVN SOLUTION...WITH FRONT JUST NORTH OF A TCL-BHM-ANB LINE BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WITH GOOD WAA/ISENTROPIC LIFT EVIDENT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA BY THIS AFTERNOON WILL GO WITH SHRA/TSTMS LIKELY ALL BUT MGM AREA. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK AND WILL BROADBRUSH CHANCE POPS. HSV 074/059 073/055 076 6555 BHM 078/060 076/061 082 6555 MGM 081/061 082/060 082 5444 .BHM...NONE. 83
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1045 AM DST TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 HACKLEBURG AL 3/4 INCH HAIL
MARION P.D.
0530 WINSTON CHAPEL AL 3/4 INCH HAIL
CALHOUN EMA
0630 CULLMAN CNTY AL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
EMA
0708 GARDENDALE AL 3/4 INCH HAIL
JEFFERSON EMA
0712 MIDFIELD AL 1 INCH HAIL
JEFFERSON SKYWARN
0810 CLAY CNTY AL 1-3 INCH
EMA
0920 LINEVILLE AL 1/2 INCH HAIL
CLAY EOC
0944 STEMLEY AL 3/4 INCH HAIL
TALLADEGA EMAALZ002>004-007>008-010>038-040>041-043-045-047>-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 124 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 83... CALHOUN...CHEROKEE...CLEBURNE...DEKALB...ETOWAH... MARSHALL... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 83 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM... AUTAUGA...BIBB...BLOUNT...CHAMBERS...CHILTON... CLAY...COLBERT...COOSA...CULLMAN...DALLAS... ELMORE...FAYETTE...FRANKLIN...GREENE...HALE... JEFFERSON...LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LEE...MACON... MARION...MORGAN...PERRY...PICKENS...RANDOLPH... RUSSELL...SHELBY...ST. CLAIR...SUMTER...TALLADEGA... TALLAPOOSA...TUSCALOOSA...WALKER...WINSTON...
ALZ001>038-040>050-032100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 147 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE LARGE HAIL...AND THE GREATEST THREAT TIME WILL BE LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNSET. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
213 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 AM SELMA AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 DALLAS
0530 AM HACKLEBURG AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 MARION REPORTED BY POLICE.
0600 AM DOUBLE SPRINGS AL LIGHTNING
04/03/01 WINSTON STRUCK THREE HOMES
0630 AM WINSTON CHAPEL AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 CALHOUN REPORTED BY CALHOUN
COUNTY EMA.
0720 AM PRATTVILLE AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 AUTAUGA
0730 AM CULLMAN AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 CULLMAN REPORTED BY CULLMAN
COUNTY EMA.
0750 AM GRAYSVILLE AL 1.25 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JEFFERSON
0755 AM HOMEWOOD AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JEFFERSON
0800 AM GARDENDALE AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JEFFERSON HAIL COVERED THE GROUND
0830 AM CARBON HILL AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 WALKER
0910 AM LINEVILLE AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 CLAY REPORTED BY CLAY COUNTY
EMA.
0945 AM MUNFORD AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 TALLADEGA REPORTED BY TALLADEGA
COUNTY EMA.
0950 AM SELMA AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 DALLAS REPORTED BY DALLAS COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
1044 AM STEMLEY AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 TALLADEGA REPORTED BY TALLADEGA
COUNTY EMA.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous roads throughout the county were flooded. Many of these roads were temporarily impassable.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, April 2001
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: 5242276.