Alabama, 2001

Hail in Alabama, April 3, 2001

April 3, 2001 · NWS BMX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 3, 2:15 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:15 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
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.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Autauga

When
April 3, 6:20 AM CST
Where
Autauga County, Prattville
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
32.467, -86.483

Dime to nickel size hail was observed in Prattville.

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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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: 5242270.