Hail, Covington
- When
- June 21, 4:35 PM CST to 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Covington County, Andalusia
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.300, -86.483
Hail in Alabama, June 21, 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 Jun 21, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 325 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001 WEAK 500MB SHEAR AXIS AND DAYTIME HEATING COMBINING TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING WITH OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY BECOMING FOCUSED ALONG AND AHEAD OF A WEAK FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO CENTRAL MS...NRN AL BY MORNING. MODELS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH THE LONG WAVE UPPER TROF AXIS AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT PUSHING ACROSS THE AREA FRI-FRI NIGHT AND JUST EAST OF THE CWA BY MID SATURDAY MORNING...WITH INDICATIONS OF THE FRONT HANGING UP ALONG THE COAST. CONSIDERING LACK OF GOOD SURFACE PRESSURES AND COOL AIR BEHIND THE FRONT AND TIME OF YEAR...EXPECT THE FRONT TO STALL JUST SOUTH OF THE MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTY COASTLINES AND THEN EXTEND BACK NE ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE ON SAT...BUT LIKELY JUST EAST OF DESTIN. A DRIER NW FLOW ALOFT WILL SUPPORT REMOVING POPS NW ZONES FOR SAT...BUT WILL HOLD ONTO ISOLATED NE TO LOW CHANCE FL COAST SAT...THEN SLIGHT CHANCE COAST SUN-MON. AVN SHOWS THE LONG WAVE TROF CUTTING OFF OVER TN/KY BY SUN WHICH WILL MAINTAIN A DRY NW FLOW ALOFT HERE THRU MON. THIS FEATURE BEGINS TO RETROGRADE WWD BY TUE AS THE RETURN FLOW PUSHES THE FRONT BACK NORTH. THIS WILL WARRANT CHANCE POPS TUE-THU AS POSSIBLE WEAK UPPER IMPULSES RIDE AROUND THE CUT OFF 50H LOW. OTHERWISE...A COMBO OF PERSISTANCE AND GUIDANCE WILL WORK FOR TEMPS THRU THE PERIODS WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER HIGHS FRI WITH BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN...THEN COOLER LOWS SUN AND MON MRNGS BEHIND THE FRONT. FIRE...NO CONCERNS DUE TO HIGH AFTN HUMIDITIES AND MODERATE DISPERSIONS. MARINE...FRONT WILL HANG OVER THE COASTAL WATERS WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE MAINLY VARIABLE WINDS...SWINGING AROUND SW TO NW FRI NIGHT-SAT THEN LIKELY W TO SW ON SUN. FCSTID = 39 PRELIM NUMBERS... MOB 071/087 067/088 066 393642 PNS 072/087 069/088 068 393543 DTS 073/087 071/087 070 393543 GZH 068/087 064/088 061 393761 2R0 068/086 062/088 059 39274- 61A 068/086 063/088 060 39275- .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
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, June 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: 5251603.