Alabama, 2001

Hail in Alabama, May 2, 2001

May 2, 2001 · NWS MOB · 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.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 11:26 AM CST, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 11:26 AM CST, 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1226 PM CDT WED MAY 02 2001

WILL UPDATE TO ADD SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TO INLAND ZONES...BASED UPON
LAPS AND RADAR DATA.  WILL ALSO GO AHEAD AND INCREASE POPS TO
SCATTERED OVER THE INLAND COASTAL SECTIONS...WHERE A STRONGER SEA
BREEZE FRONT AND BEST INSTABILITY EXISTS.  NO OTHER MAJOR CHANGES
EXPECTED...UPDATE OUT SOON.

29

.MOB...
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Mobile

When
May 2, 12:10 PM CST to 12:15 PM CST
Where
Mobile County, Satsuma
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates
30.850, -88.067

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

More

Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, May 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: 5245029.