Name: Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 21, 2001
Start: 2001-06-21T19:10
End: 2001-06-21T19:10
Location: Alabama

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $3,000
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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 21, 2:28 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:28 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
328 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001

DEVELOPING SQUALL LINE JUST ENTERING NW AL IS THE MAIN REASON FOR
HIGH POPS TONIGHT.  LINE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS MOST OF THE
NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE DURING THE EVENING. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL
SHOWERS AND STORMS LIKELY TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT...WHICH WAS
NEAR CINCINNATI-MEMPHIS-TEXARKANA AT 20Z...AND MOVE INTO AL LATER
TONIGHT.  COULD EVOLVE INTO ANOTHER MCS...WHICH HAS HAPPENED THE
LAST TWO OR THREE NIGHTS...WITH GENERAL RAINS LINGERING THROUGH
FRIDAY MORNING.  FRONT NOT EXPECTED TO GET THRU HSV UNTIL AFTER
DAYBREAK FRIDAY AND BHM UNTIL MID AFTERNOON...SO PLENTY OF
OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT DURING THE DAY AS VIGOROUS UPPER TROF
MOVES IN OVER MOISTURE RICH AIR.

DRYING OUT NORTH FRIDAY NIGHT AND SOUTH BY SATURDAY MORNING.

AVN HAS UPPER LOW CUTTING OFF OVER OHIO BY SUNDAY AND THEN DIGGING
IT SOUTHWARD AND A LITTLE SOUTHWEST.  THIS SHOULD PREVENT MUCH OF A
WARMUP FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND BRING BACK THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR
STORMS UNDER THE COLD AIR ALOFT BY EARLY IN THE WEEK.

HSV WB 069/077 061/082 063 960
BHM TB 069/080 062/083 063 791
MGM TB 069/086 066/086 065 584=

.BHM...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 4:57 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
557 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0500 PM    REFORM                    AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01   PICKENS                        TREE DOWN ON POWER LINE
                                          IN REFORM ALONG HWY 17.
                                          REPORTED BY 911.

0515 PM    THORSBY                   AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01   CHILTON                        SPOTTER REPORTED DIME
                                          HAIL IN THORSBY.

Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:39 PM CST, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
739 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    LINCOLN                   AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01   TALLADEGA                      PUBLIC REPORTED GOLF BALL
                                          HAIL.

0630 PM    HAZEL GREEN               AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01   MADISON                        PUBLIC REPORTED DIME HAIL
                                          JUST N OF TOWN.

0640 PM    REDSTONE                  AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01   MADISON                        PUBLIC REPORTED DIME HAIL
                                          IN REDSTONE ARSENAL.

0645 PM    5NE HUNTSVILLE            AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01   MADISON                        EMA REPORTED TREES DOWN.

0645 PM    BAKER HILL                AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01   BARBOUR                        PUBLIC REPORTED DIME
                                          HAIL.

0700 PM    CRANE HILL                AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01   CULLMAN                        DIME HAIL IN THE CRANE
                                          HILL COMMUNITY. REPORTED
                                          BY EMA.

0720 PM    GOLDRIDGE                 AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01   CULLMAN                        TREES DOWN IN GOLDRIDGE
                                          AREA.

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:09 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Jackson

When: June 21, 7:10 PM CST
Where: Jackson County, Scottsboro
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.667, -86.033

A few power poles were blown down in Scottsboro.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Alabama in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5249916.