1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 320 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001 CURRENT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI WILL PROPAGATE SOUTHEAST AND INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF OUR CWA THIS EVENING. WILL MENTION SCATTERED PRECIPITATION... MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT ACROSS THESE AREAS AND SCATTERED COASTAL SHOWERS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. GOING ABOVE GUID FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS AS DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN HIGH. S/W EXITING AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH DRIER AIR MASS SETTING UP FOR TUESDAY. PARTLY CLOUDY LOOKS LIKE A GOOD BET WITH SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES (86 TO 89) AND MAINLY AFTERNOON SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS. MUCH THE SAME FOR WEDNESDAY...BUT PERHAPS A FEW MORE CLOUDS ACROSS THE INTERIOR PORTIONS WITH TEMPS BACK TO THE MID 80S AS ANOTHER S/W APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. EXTENDED...WILL MENTION CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS UPPER TROUGH PASSES OVER THE AREA. SURFACE BOUNDARY COULD REMAIN IN WAKE OF TROUGH OVER THE WEEKEND AND TRIGGER A SLIGHT CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND STORMS. TEMPERATURES HUGGING CLIMATOLOGY. MARINE...SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 10 KNOTS CONTINUING THROUGH SATURDAY WITH NO ADVISORY CRITERIA BEING MET. SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY FOR MOBILE BAY...ISOLATED COASTAL WATERS. FIRE..AFTERNOON RH WILL REMAIN ABOVE WATCH/WARNING CRITERIA WITH HIGH SURFACE DEWPOINTS REMAINING ACROSS THE REGION. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... MOB BB 072/087 068/088 069 22332 PNS BB 073/088 070/088 071 22332 DTS BB 073/085 071/086 071 22332 GZH BE 069/088 064/087 064 22433 2R0 BE 067/087 064/085 067 22433 61A BE 068/086 063/084 064 22433 /22 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
500 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 9 PM CDT...
CHOCTAW...MARENGO...CLARKE...MONROE...WILCOX...
CRENSHAW...BUTLER.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DJO PRODUCE TORNADOES.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Dime size hail was reported near Chatom. A funnel cloud was also observed. The funnel never touched down and quickly dissipated.
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: 5245041.