Hail, Covington
- When
- July 20, 9:15 PM CST to 9:17 PM CST
- Where
- Covington County, River Falls
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.350, -86.550
Hail in Alabama, July 20, 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 20, 8:15 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:15 PM CST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 915 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2001 LATEST BACKDOOR SFC FRONTAL POSTN (21/01Z) FROM AMG-MCN-HSV. CDFNT BECOMES STNY NW OF THAT POSTN INTO WRN TN AND SW OHIO VLY. FEW STORMS BECAME SEVERE THIS EVENING JUST PRIOR TO SUNSET OVER PORTIONS OF OKALOOSA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN NW FL WHERE MUCAPES MAXED OUT AROUND 4000 J/KG INVOF AND ALONG FLORIDA SEA-BREEZE CRCLN. EXPECT SFC FRONT TO CONTINUE MAKING STEADY SWD PROGRESS OVERNIGHT TO BE LOCATED IN FAR NE COUNTIES BY MID MORNING SATURDAY. LATEST SATELLITE\RADAR TRENDS INDICATE A MORE SOLID AREA OF TSRA\SHRA OVER NRN COUNTIES ADVECTING SWD IN FLOW IN ASSOC WITH NEXT S\WAVE (CURRENTLY ENTERING FAR NRN ALABAMA). AMPLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL RESIDE AND POOL TNT ALONG AND AHEAD OF SFC BOUNDARY. THUS...LIKELY POPS ARE LOOKING GOOD OVER ROUGHLY E 2/3 CWA WITH LOW CHANCE POPS IN FAR W. BASED ON LATEST AFOREMTNIONED TRENDS...HAVE THUS UPDATED ZONES TO MAKE COSMETIC POP CHANGES FOR REST OF TONIGHT. ALSO FIXED SFC WINDS TO SHIFT NELY WITH PASSSAGE OF BACKDOOR FRONT LATE TNT IN FAR NE ZONES. MARINE FORECASTER WILL KEEP 'STAXTUS-QUO' GOING OVER COASTAL WATERS IN SHORT TERM. 23 .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
- Heat in Wisconsin, July 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 20, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, July 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 20, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 20 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 20, 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: 5259653.