1 flash flood, 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 5, 9:23 AM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 1023 AM CDT THU JUL 05 2001 WILL UPDATE THE ZONES TO REMOVE MORNING WORDING IN THE FIRST PERIOD. ALSO...LOOKING AT MORNING SOUNDING...APPEARS THAT ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE. ADJUSTED CAPES ARE NEAR 3000 J/KG AND DEW POINTS ARE QUITE HIGH. STABILITY INDICES LIKE LI, K ETC ALSO ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER. SO WILL INCLUDE WORDING OF A FEW STORMS SEVERE IN SOME OF THE ZONES. .BHM...NONE. 77
ALZ001>038-040>050-051730- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 745 AM CDT THU JUL 05 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST AND CLASHES WITH AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY FIRING ALONG A COLD FRONT IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI...NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY SEND AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY INTO NORTHWESTERN ALABAMA AROUND NOON. THIS OUTFLOW WILL INTERACT WITH AN OLD RAIN COOLED BOUNDARY FROM LAST NIGHT AND HELP TO FOCUS CONVECTION ACROSS NORTHWESTERN ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WILL THEN CONTINUE SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE STATE. THE AREA THAT HAS THE GREATEST POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM ATHENS TO TALLEDEGA TO AUBURN. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS OR STATEMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
ALZ001>038-040>050-051930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1025 AM CDT THU JUL 05 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE...WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST AND CLASHES WITH AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. LATE THIS MORNING...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHWARD THROUGH CENTRAL TENNESSEE. PORTIONS OF THIS BAND WILL LIKELY ENTER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY BY MIDDAY. IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIN LINE...A FEW STORMS WILL DEVELOP BETWEEN THE QUAD CITIES AND HUNTSVILLE BEFORE NOON. MOST OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY SHOULD EXPERIENCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. COOL OUTFLOW FROM THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES...HELPING TO TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE AREA THAT HAS THE GREATEST POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE TO THE NORTH OF A CARROLTON TO BIRMINGHAM TO HEFLIN LINE THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS OR STATEMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR: HUNTSVILLE IS 4 BIRMINGHAM IS 3 MONTGOMERY IS 2 1 BEING THE LOWEST...AND 5 THE HIGHEST THREAT. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND3 A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT A WET MICROBURST IS, SEE OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX/HWO.HTML.
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:28 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A few roads in and near the city of Arab were flooded and some were temporarily impassable.
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: 5257163.