Hail, Mobile
- When
- May 2, 1:55 PM CST to 1:57 PM CST
- Where
- Mobile County, Wilmer
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.817, -88.350
Hail in Alabama, May 2, 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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 11:26 AM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 11:26 AM CST, 2 hours 29 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.
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
- High Wind in Utah, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 2, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Excessive Heat in New Jersey, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Pennsylvania, May 2 to 4, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, May 2 to 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 2, 2001
- Winter Storm in Colorado, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, May 2 to 5, 2001
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, May 2 to 3, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Maryland, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Delaware, May 2 to 4, 2001
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: 5245121.