5 lightning, 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 Apr 3, 2:15 AM CST, 5 hours 53 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
ALZ001>038-040>050-031430- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 730 AM CDT TUE APR 3 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE UNTIL 10 AM. MORE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM WELL INTO THE 70S AND LOWER 80S THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TODAY AS THE AIR MASS BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY WANT TO CONSIDER ADDITIONAL STAFFING TODAY AND TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning started a house fire in Blountsville.
A barn was destroyed in a lightning caused fire.
Lightning started a fire in a house about halfway between Snead and Oneonta in the Hendrix area.
A man working on the roof of his house was injured by lightning.
A house fire believed started by lightning occurred in the Pine Mountain area east of Remlap. The fire was believed to have been started by lightning much earlier than the fire was actually reported.
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: 5242505, 5242506, 5242507, 5242508, 5242509.