Hail, Pickens
- When
- May 21, 11:40 AM CST
- Where
- Pickens County, Gordo
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 33.317, -87.900
Dime size hail fell in Gordo. One large tree was blown down blocking a road.
Hail in Alabama, May 21, 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 May 21, 2:21 AM CST, 9 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:21 AM CST, 9 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 321 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 BIG STORM SYSTEM POISED TO SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA NEXT 24 HOURS OR SO. PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND LIFT TO BE HAD...AND WITH ADDED HEAT THIS AFTERNOON...EXPECT INSTABILITY TO BE SUFFICIENT FOR WIDESPREAD STORMS. PLUS...ITS HARD NOT TO NOTICE THE ONGOING CONVENTION IN WESTERN TN AND NORTHERN MS. WILL KEEP HIGH POPS AREAWIDE TODAY... WITH CATAGORICAL IN NORTH AND WEST...TO LIKELY AND HIGH CHANCE FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST. GIVEN SPC OUTLOOK...WILL ENHANCE WORDING IN APPROPRIATE AREAS AS WELL. EXPECT SEVERAL WAVES OF CONVECTION TODAY AND TONIGHT...AND THEN THE BIG FINAL PUSH OF RAIN LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. RAIN SHOULD EXIT AREA AFTER COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH (YET ANOTHER FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE BHM WITHIN A FEW HOURS OF 12Z). PRETTY COOL AIRMASS IN WAKE OF FRONT. DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE A RECORD BREAKER AT THIS POINT...BUT STILL UNSEASONABLY COOL. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS THAN KEEP CUTOFF UPPER LOW SPINNING ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH THE BETTER PART OF THE WEEK. LOW CONFIDENCE IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST...DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES INVOLVED WITH SHORTWAhVES ROTATING AROUND BIG UPPER LOW. HSV 083/059/067/048 ++2 BHM 085/062/072/050 783 MGM 087/066/078/053 565 .BHM...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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21 to 22, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 21 to 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Dense Fog in Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 21, 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: 5245936.