Hail, Cullman
- When
- May 27, 8:35 PM CST
- Where
- Cullman County, Bremen
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 33.983, -86.967
Golf ball size hail was observed in Calverts Cove, near Bremen.
Hail in Alabama, May 27, 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
- $2,000
- 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 27, 8:01 PM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 8:01 PM CST, 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 901 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 BEEN CHASING THUNDERSTORMS AS SCATTERED STORMS CONTINUE TO FLARE ACROSS THE CWA THIS EVENING. WHILE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SEEMS TO HAVE DIMINISHED, THE SPC HAS KEPT MUCH OF OUR CWA WITHIN THE SLIGHT RISK SO WILL CONTINUE THE POSSIBLY SEVERE WORDING. WILL CUT BACK ON THAT WORDING IN SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SECTIONS. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN FIRING UUP QUICKLY PRODUCING SOME SMALL HAIL AND LIGHTNING. LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED SOUTH OF MEMPHIS ALONG MS RIVER HAS PUSHED AN AREA OF RAIN THAT HAS ENTERED WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. DEWPOINT DISCONTINUITY WAS LYING FROM THE MEMPHIS AREA SOUTHEASTWARD TO APPROXIMATELY ANNISTON. THIS BOUNDARY WAS GRADUALLY SHIFTING NORTHEASTWARD WITH MOST OF THE SHOWERS ALONG THE BOUNDARY AND BEHIND IT. WILL MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO FORECAST WITH UPDATE SHORTLY. TEMPERATURES LOOKS REASONABLE. -57- .BHM...NONE.
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:34 UTC.
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
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado in New Jersey, May 27, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 27, 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: 5244630.