Name: Hail in Alabama, May 24, 2001
Start: 2001-05-24T20:35
End: 2001-05-24T20:35
Location: Alabama

Where it happened

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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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 24, 8:18 PM CST, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:18 PM CST, 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
918 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

UPDATED THE ZONES TO REMOVE THE EXPIRED WATCH.  WILL LIKELY UPDATE
AGAIN AROUND 10 PM TO TAKE RAIN OUT FROM HSV WEST.

.BHM...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 7:20 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
820 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0450 PM    RAINBOW CITY              AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   ETOWAH                         PUBLIC REPORTED.

0456 PM    RAINBOW CITY              AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   ETOWAH                         EMA REPORTED

0530 PM    HANCEVILLE                AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        EMA REPORTED.

0540 PM    BLOUNTSVILLE              AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   BLOUNT                         REPORTED BY POLICE.

0545 PM    BLOUNTSVILLE              AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   BLOUNT                         REPORTED BY BLOUNT COUNTY
                                          EMA. 2 TO 3 TREES DOWN
                                          EAST OF BLOUNTSVILLE.

0545 PM                              AL   TORNADO
05/24/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA. TORNADO
                                          TOUCHDOWN NEAR ASPEL.
                                          DAMAGE TO THE CORNER OF A
                                          HOUSE.

0600 PM    ROSALIE                   AL   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   JACKSON                        SPOTTER REPORTED.

0600 PM    BASS                      AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA. TREES DOWN. 2
                                          HOMES W/DAMAGE...1 WITH
                                          TREE ON IT.

0620 PM    JASPER                    AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   WALKER                         REPORTED BY WALKER COUNTY
                                          EMA. FUNNEL CLOUD FORMING
                                          HEADING TOWARDS CURRY
                                          ALONG HIGHWAY 257.

0620 PM    HANCEVILLE                AL   TORNADO
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        TORNADO ON THE GROUND SW
                                          CULLMAN COUNTY HEADING
                                          TOWARDS
                                          HANCEVILLE.REPORTED BY
                                          STATE TROOPER.

0620 PM    PISGAH                    AL   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0625 PM    ARKADELPHIA               AL   FUNNEL CLOUD
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        REPORTED BY CULLMAN
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0634 PM    IDER                      AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   DEKALB                         REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0635 PM    DOUBLE SPRINGS            AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   WINSTON                        REPORTED BY WINSTON
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0655 PM                              AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        REPORTED BY CULLMAN
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0700 PM    LOGAN                     AL   FUNNEL CLOUD
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        REPORTED BY CULLMAN
                                          COUNTY EMA. POSSIBLE
                                          FUNNEL CLOUD WEST OF
                                          CULLMAN.

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:36 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hale

When: May 24, 8:35 PM CST
Where: Hale County, Greensboro
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.700, -87.583

Dime size hail fell near Greensboro.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Alabama in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5244526.