1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 2, 9:00 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 1000 AM CDT MON JUL 02 2001 CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS PRETTY GOOD AS AIR MASS ACROSS THE AREA REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. HIGHEST POPS ALREADY ACROSS THE SOUTH IN THE VICINITY OF BEST MSTR AXIS. WILL MONITOR TEMPS FOR POSSIBLE UPDATES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON BUT AT THIS TIME NO UPDATES PLANNED. .BHM...NONE.
ALZ001>038-040>050-022330- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 130 PM CDT MON JUL 2 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH EXTREME NORTHERN ALABAMA AND BEGIN LOSING ITS DEFINITION THROUGH TUESDAY. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE STATE WILL REMAIN MOIST AND UNSTABLE...THEREFORE SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR: HUNTSVILLE IS 1 BIRMINGHAM IS 1 MONTGOMERY IS 1 1 BEING THE LOWEST...AND 5 THE HIGHEST THREAT. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS A WET MICROBURST, SEE OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX/HWO.HTML.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were blown down near Phil Campbell. A piece of roof was torn off the Fellowship Hall Church on SR 237.
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, July 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: 5257071.