Hail, Mobile
- When
- July 12, 4:15 PM CST to 4:17 PM CST
- Where
- Mobile County, Kushla
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.817, -88.167
Hail in Alabama, July 12, 2001
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
- 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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 12, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 300 PM CDT THU JUL 12 2001 LATEST SATELLITE LOOPS ACROSS THE SE U.S. CONTINUE SHOW NEXT SIGNIFICANT S/W TROUGH DIVING DOWN INTO THE TN VALLEY WITH CONVECTION FIRING MOSTLY OVER NORTHERN MS. NEAR THE SFC SEABREEZE FRONT HAS DEVELOPED ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST AIDING IN THE ADDITIONAL TS COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MOSTLY NEAR THE COAST. MAIN CONCERN FOR NOW LOOKS TO BE CONVECTION REDEVELOPING OVER MOST OF CWFA LATER TONIGHT FOLLOWED BY DRIER AIR PENETRATING SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION LATE FRIDAY...POSSIBLY EXITING THE COAST DURING THE EVENING HOURS. LATEST MODEL SOLUTIONS PREFERABLY THE AVN IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH CURRENT PATTERN OVER THE MID TO LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY PLACING NEXT IMPULSE OVER THE CWFA BETWEEN 06 AND 12Z FRIDAY. KIND OF AN ANOMALOUS SITUATION FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR THOUGH LOOKING AT CURRENT VISIBLE LOOPS OVER THE NORTHERN PARTS OF AL/MS WILL GO AHEAD AND ADJUST POPS ACROSS THE REGION FOR TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. AS FOR THE SEVERITY OF THIS SITUATION MAIN CONCERN LOOKS TO BE ALONG THE COAST WHERE HIGHER CAPES AND DEWPOINTS WILL CONTINUE WITH LAPSE RATES STILL MARGINAL. WITH THIS WILL ADJUST CURRENT POPS TO THE NORTH AND KEEP CURRENT NUMBERS NEAR THE COAST. EXTENDED...BOTH ETA/AVN MODELS MOVE SFC BOUNDARY OFF THE COAST EARLY SATURDAY CONTINUING SOUTHWARD OVER THE WEEKEND. LATEST MODEL SOLUTIONS SHOW A WEAK REINFORCEMENT OF DRIER MOVING ACROSS THE REGION ON SUN GIVING WAY TO DRIER THAN NORMAL CONDITIONS INTO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. MARINE...GUSTY WINDS NEAR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOST TONIGHT... FOLLOWED BY A GRADUAL SHIFT TO THE WEST THAN NORTHWEST THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON FRIDAY. GENERALLY A NORTHERLY FLOW 10 TO 15 KT THROUGH SUNDAY...SHIFTING EAST BY MONDAY. PRELIM NUMBERS... MOB TB 075/091 071/092 070 32552 PNS TB 077/093 072/091 070 32552 DTS TB 078/090 074/091 072 32553 GZH TB 075/090 070/090 069 32441 2R0 TB 075/091 069/091 068 32541 61A BE 074/091 069/090 068 32441 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flood in Washington, July 12, 2001
- Heat in Mississippi, July 12, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 12, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Montana, July 12 to 13, 2001
- Wildfire in California, July 12, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, July 2001
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: 5259559.