1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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, 32 minutes earlier.
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. 07
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 Birmingham radar (KBMX), 12 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:51 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported at Montevallo. One and one half inch diameter hail was observed in Calera.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, May 2001
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: 5244527.