Hail, Russell
- When
- June 3, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, Seale
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.300, -85.167
Nickel size hail was reported in Seale.
Hail in Alabama, June 3, 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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 1:31 PM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:31 PM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 231 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2001 SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES SURFACE BOUNDARY LOCATED OVER COLUMBUS MS TO NEAR BIRMINGHAM TO GADSDEN. NORTH OF FRONT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS TN VALLEY. THIS AREA OF STORMS HAD MOVED ACROSS SOUTHERN TN AND SPREAD CLOUDS ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA. RADARS INDICATING NOTHING BACK BEHIND THIS AREA AND WILL BASE 1ST PERIOD POPS THIS AREA MAINLY ON RADAR AT ISSUANCE. ALONG AND SOUTH OF BOUNDARY...WHERE ATMOSPHERE IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE...LACK OF CLOUDS ALLOWED FOR GOOD WARMING. TEMPERATURES IN THIS AREA IN THE UPPER 70S AND 80S. HAVE ALREADY ISSUED SEVERAL WARNINGS FOR THIS AREA. MODELS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH MAIN FEATURES THIS RUN. UPPER LOW OVER GREAT LAKES SLIDES EAST OVER NEW ENGLAND BY MIDDAY MONDAY AND ALONG CANADIAN COAST BY TUESDAY. SEVERAL IMPULSES MOVE NORTHWARD OUT OF THE GULF ACROSS PORTIONS OF ALABAMA. SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL SLOWLY LIFT NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT. BY MONDAY SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SETS UP OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST AND PUMPS GOOD GULF MOISTURE INTO FORECAST AREA. WITH MOISTURE...INSTABILITY IN PLACE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL FIRE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NEXT FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA ON THURSDAY. HSV 066/083 068/083 067 4434 BHM 068/087 070/083 069 8445 MGM 070/090 071/086 071 5435 .BHM...NONE. 83
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 3, 1:53 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
253 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
140 PM SPRINGVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
06/03/01 ST. CLAIR A FEW TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN BETWEEN SPRINGVILLE
AND ODENVILLE.
157 PM FORT PAYNE AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 DEKALB QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS
OBSERVED ON THE NORTH
SIDE OF FORT PAYNE.
200 PM FAYETTE AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 FAYETTE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
JUST SOUTH OF FAYETTE.
225 PM DUKE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 CALHOUN GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
OBSERVED ON HIGHWAY 204
NEAR DUKE.
239 PM DUKE AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 CALHOUN NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED JUST EAST OF
DUKE.
240 PM WEST POINT AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 CULLMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL IN
NORTHERN CULLMAN COUNTY
NEAR WEST POINT AND
BATTLEGROUND.Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:22 PM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
322 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
240 PM LAFAYETTE AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 CHAMBERS DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED WEST OF
LAFAYETTE AND IN THE
CITY.
257 PM GADSDEN AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 ETOWAH DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED ON THE EAST SIDE
OF GADSDEN.
300 PM LANETT AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 CHAMBERS DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
OBSERVED FROM LAFAYETTE
TO LANETT.
311 PM JASPER AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 WALKER NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED NORTH OF HIGHWAY
78 NEAR JASPER.
316 PM FOURNEY AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 CHEROKEE GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN FOURNEY.Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:59 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
359 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
132 PM LIPSCOMB AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 JEFFERSON DIME SIZE HAIL FELL ALONG
INTERSTATE 459 AND
HIGHWAY 52 NEAR
BESSEMER.
310 PM WARRIOR AL WIND DAMAGE
06/03/01 JEFFERSON TREES AND POWER LINES
WERE BLOWN DOWN IN
WARRIOR.
330 PM QUINTON AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 WALKER DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
ALONG THE WARRIOR RIVER
NEAR QUINTON.Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:24 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
524 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
440 PM ASHVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
06/03/01 ST. CLAIR TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN
BETWEEN WHITNEY AND
ASHVILLE. ESTIMATED
TIME.
445 PM DADEVILLE AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 TALLAPOOSA QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED NEAR DADEVILLE.
457 PM DAVISTON AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 TALLAPOOSA QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS
COVERING THE GROUND JUST
SOUTH OF THE HORSESHOE
BEND MILITARY PARK SOUTH
OF DAVISTON.
515 PM WETUMPKA AL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 ELMORE DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
WAS OBSERVED JUST NORTH
OF WETUMPKA NEAR US 231
AND HIGHWAY 9.Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:10 PM CST, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
610 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
258 PM HOKES BLUFF AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 ETOWAH QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS
OBSERVED IN HOKES BLUFF.
520 PM WETUMPKA AL WIND DAMAGE
06/03/01 ELMORE TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN
JUST NORTH OF WETUMPKA.
520 PM WETUMPKA AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 ELMORE GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED 10 MILES EAST OF
WETUMPKA.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
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 3, 2001
- Flood and Hail in New York, June 3, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, June 3 to 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 3, 2001
- Hail in Arkansas, June 3, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, June 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 3, 2001
- High Wind in California, June 3, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 3 to 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 3, 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: 5250198.