Hail, Dale
- When
- March 12, 9:45 AM EST
- Where
- Dale County, (Ozr)ft Rucker Aaf
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
- Coordinates
- 31.333, -85.717
Dime size hail reported by a base weather observer.
Hail in Alabama, March 12, 2001
1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 2
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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 12, 9:40 AM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 9:40 AM EST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 940 AM EST MON MAR 12 2001 CURRENT: WATER VAPOR IMAGERY/RUC COMPOSITE SHOWED SPLIT FLOW W/ NRN STREAM UPPER LOW OVER NE/SD LIFTING NEWD & SRN STREAM UPPER LOW RETROGRADING TOWARD SRN CA COAST. SUBTROPICAL JET...DIVERGENT FLOW ALOFT & SURFACE BOUNDARY DRAPED FROM LOW OVER NRN LA SEWD INTO NRN GULF COMBINING TO TRIGGER SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF CONVECTION...SOME STRONG OVER PORTIONS OF AL/MS/LA WHICH IS WHERE SPC HAS ISSUED SVR TSTM WATCHES INTO THE LATE MORNING HOURS. ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MOVING ENE ABOUT 45 KTS. OTHW...TEMPS IN THE 50S & GENERALLY LOW OVERCAST W/ AREAS OF BR...EXCEPT FOR IMMEDIATE COAST & SE BIG BEND WHERE SKIES WERE P/CDY W/ TEMPS IN THE 60S. DEWPTS ALSO RECOVERING OVER FL ZONES AS BOUNDARY LIFTS SLOWLY NWD. ZFP: MAIN CONCERNS TODAY ARE SEVERE WX POTENTIAL...POPS & TEMPS. LATEST SPC SWODY1 OUTLOOK PLACES ENTIRE CWFA IN SLIGHT RISK. BASED ON RADAR TRENDS...INHERITED POPS LOOK JUSTIFIED...ESPECIALLY OVER THE AL/NRN 1/2 OF GA ZONES W/ CATEGORICAL. WILL LOWER POPS OVER FL ZONES TO GOOD CHANCE W/CHANCE E AS BEST CHANCES FOR CONVECTION WILL BE FROM THIS EVE THRU TUE MORNING AS THE COLD FRONT NEARS. TEMP FCST TRICKY & WILL BE DETERMINED WHERE SURFACE BOUNDARY SETS UP THIS AFTN. CURRENT THINKING IS TO LOWER MAXIMA A CAT OR TWO OVER SE AL/NRN 1/2 SW GA ZONES & LEAVE FL ZONES AS IS. UPDATES TO ZFP & HAZ WX OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED LATER THIS MORNING. MARINE: BUOYS JUST BELOW SCEC CRITERIA AS TIGHTER PRESSURE GRADIENT JUST W OF LOCAL WATERS SLOWLY TRANSLATES EWD THIS AFTN/EVE. WILL RAISE SCEC FOR ERN LEGS ON 1030 AM CWF & MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO WINDS & SEAS. FIRE WEATHER: NO CONCERNS. .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. MAJ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 6:00 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-121315- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 600 AM EST MON MAR 12 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AS A WEAK WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH INTO GEORGIA. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTRIBUTE TO RIVER FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. MME
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Dale
- When
- March 12, 12:20 PM EST
- Where
- Dale County, 3 mi SW of Ariton
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.432, -85.611 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A funnel cloud was observed by the Dale County Sheriff on Highway 51.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 12, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
More
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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: 5237875, 5237876.