2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 26, 2:11 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 203 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001 UPPER LOW OVER WRN KY THIS AFTN WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT SLOLY WWD DURG THE NXT CUPL OF DAYS...THEN STALL OUT OVER AR/MO TOWARD THE WEEKEND. ENTIRE FA WILL BE FAIRLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE...AND ITS LIKELY THAT DAILY FOCI OF CONVECTION WILL BE GOVERNED BY LOCATIONS OF MORNING CLOUDY/CLEAR AREAS AND OTHER MESOSCALE FEATURES WHICH ARE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PINPOINT THIS FAR OUT. IN GENERAL...WILL KEEP CHC POPS IN EFFECT THRU THURS...WITH HIGHEST POPS IN NW AL WED WHERE INSTABILITY/LAPSE RATES WILL REMAIN A BIT GREATER. SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION APPEARS THE RULE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK AS WELL. TEMP GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD AND WAS ACCEPTED WITH MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. 66 FIRST PD POPS SUBJECT TO CHANGE PRIOR TO RELEASE... HSV BB 064/085 066/087 067 66542 BHM BB 065/087 067/087 068 66232 MGM BB 066/090 069/089 069 66132= .BHM...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
209 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 PM KIMBERLY AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 JEFFERSON KIMBERLY PD REPORTED DIME
HAIL AT THE CITY HALL.
0155 PM MOULTON AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LAWRENCE PUBLIC REPORTED DIME HAIL
IN CITY.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
406 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0155 PM MOULTON AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LAWRENCE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN MOULTON.
0150 PM KIMBERLY AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 JEFFERSON DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN KIMBERLY.
0213 PM ATHENS AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LIMESTONE DIME SIZE HAIL OBSERVED 4
MILES NORTH OF ATHENS.
0325 PM ARAB AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 MARSHALL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS
OBSERVED JUST NORTH OF
ARAB IN THE RUTH
COMMUNITY.
0350 PM FLORENCE AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LAUDERDALE DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH
OF FLORENCE.
0355 PM HARTSELLE AL WIND DAMAGE
06/26/01 MORGAN TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN
HARTSELLE AND HAIL OF
UNKNOWN SIZE FELL.
0300 PM LESTER AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LIMESTONE DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
COVERED THE GROUND UP TO
A DEPTH OF 20 INCHES.
0405 PM LACEYS SPRING AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 MORGAN QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN LACEYS
SPRING.
0350 PM ODENVILLE AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 ST. CLAIR NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE
HAIL COVERED THE GROUND
IN ODENVILLE. DIME SIZE FELL ALONG HIGHWAY 411.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT..CORRECTED TIME ORDER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
414 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 PM KIMBERLY AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 JEFFERSON DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN KIMBERLY.
0155 PM MOULTON AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LAWRENCE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN MOULTON.
0213 PM ATHENS AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LIMESTONE DIME SIZE HAIL OBSERVED 4
MILES NORTH OF ATHENS.
0300 PM LESTER AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LIMESTONE DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
COVERED THE GROUND UP TO
A DEPTH OF 20 INCHES.
0325 PM ARAB AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 MARSHALL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS
OBSERVED JUST NORTH OF
ARAB IN THE RUTH
COMMUNITY.
0350 PM FLORENCE AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 LAUDERDALE DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH
OF FLORENCE.
0350 PM ODENVILLE AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 ST. CLAIR NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE
HAIL COVERED THE GROUND
IN ODENVILLE.
0355 PM HARTSELLE AL WIND DAMAGE
06/26/01 MORGAN TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN
HARTSELLE AND HAIL OF
UNKNOWN SIZE FELL.
0405 PM LACEYS SPRINGS AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 MORGAN QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN LACEYS
SPRING.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
443 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM 10S HUNTSVILLE AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 MADISON EMA REPORTED DIME HAIL.
0415 PM ODENVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
06/26/01 ST. CLAIR ODENVILLE PD REPORTED
TREES DOWN ON PHONE LINES
IN THE CITY LIMITS.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
552 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM HUNTSVILLE AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 MADISON DIME SIZE WAS REPORTED 10
MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY
OF HUNTSVILLE.
0415 PM ODENVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
06/26/01 ST. CLAIR TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN
ONTO POWER LINES IN
ODENVILLE.
0515 PM AKRON AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 HALE DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED AND NUMEROUS
TREE LIMBS WERE BLOWN
DOWN IN AKRON.
0525 PM WARSAW AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 SUMTER DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN WARSAW.
0536 PM DOUBLE SPRINGS AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/26/01 WINSTON NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS
OBSERVED 6 MILES SOUTH OF
DOUBLE SPRINGS.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported between Sylvan Springs and Birmingport. The hail fell mainly across rural western Jefferson County.
Quarter to golf ball size hail was observed in Graysville. Fifty-three (53) mph wind gusts were measured at an amateur weather station.
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, June 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: 5251752, 5251753.