Hail in Alabama, June 26, 2001

Name: Hail in Alabama, June 26, 2001
Start: 2001-06-26T21:42
End: 2001-06-26T21:42
Location: Alabama

June 26, 2001 · NWS BMX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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Tropical storms and surge
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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 9:22 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 9:22 PM CST, 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
1022 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001

LARGE CYCLONIC VORTEX SPINNING ACROSS EXTREME W TN/KY THIS EVENING.
BMX 00Z SOUNDING INDICATING FAIRLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH K30+/TT50+
AND LI -7. COLD POOL ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LOW PRODUCED DECENT
LAPSE RATES ACROSS THE AREA...WITH PLENTY OF HAIL REPORTS SINCE 4PM.
THE LOW WILL SLOWLY DRIFT WESTWARD...MAKING LITTLE PROGRESS
OVERNIGHT. SHWRS AND TSTMS HAVE GENERALLY WEAKENED OVER THE PAST
HOUR...BUT WITH MESO SCALE BOUNDARIES AND CONVERGENCE AREAS/SHORT
WAVE ROTATING AROUND UPPER LOW...WILL LEAVE SCATTERED POPS (30) IN N
AL OVERNIGHT.

MAIN CHANGES TO ZONE PACKAGE WILL BE REMOVAL OF EVENING WORDING AND
LEAVING POPS NORTH REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. N AL WILL ALSO SEE
VARIABLE CLOUDINESS AS SOME LOW CLOUDS WILL DEVELOP TOWARD MORNING
AS HIGH CLOUDS LEAVE. PATCHY FOG EXPECTED IN RAIN AREAS AS DEW POINT
DEPRESSION WILL BE NEAR ZERO. NO POPS SOUTH. TEMPS GENERALLY OK BUT
WORDED AS A RANGE.  75

.BHM...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:43 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

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.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 4:52 PM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:57 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
757 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001

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

0515 PM    HOLLYTREE                 AL   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   JACKSON                        DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
                                          OBSERVED IN HOLLYTREE.

0633 PM    CARROLLTON                AL   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   PICKENS                        NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          IN CARROLLTON.

0736 PM    MULGA                     AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   JEFFERSON                      QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED BETWEEN
                                          BIRMINGPORT AND MULGA.

0749 PM    GRAYSVILLE                AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   JEFFERSON                      QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED IN
                                          GRAYSVILLE. WIND GUSTS
                                          MEASURED AT 53 MPH.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:05 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
905 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001

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

0515 PM    DOUBLE SPRINGS            AL   LIGHTNING
06/26/01   WINSTON                        4 COWS WERE KILLED BY A
                                          LIGHNTING STRIKE NEAR
                                          DOUBLE SPRINGS.

0758 PM    LIPSCOMB                  AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   JEFFERSON                      DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          IN LIPSCOMB.

0807 PM    MOUNTAIN BROOK            AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   JEFFERSON                      DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
                                          REPORTED NEAR BROOKWOOD
                                          MALL.

0830 PM    MOUNTAIN BROOK            AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   JEFFERSON                      DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
                                          REPORTED NEAR FIRE
                                          STATION 2 ON OVERTON
                                          ROAD.

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Madison

When: June 26, 9:42 PM CST
Where: Madison County, Owens Xrds
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 34.583, -86.467

Dime size hail fell in the Owens Crossroads area.

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

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: 5251758.