1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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, 9:10 AM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1010 AM CDT MON MAY 28 2001 FAIRLY STRONG H70 S/W APPROACHING LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY HAS INDUCING LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE OVER THE NORTHERN GULF COAST/COASTAL COUNTIES ATTM. WITH NO CAP IN PLACE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED THIS AM AND SHOULD PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE DAY NEAR THE COAST...AND DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON FURTHER INLAND. AS THE S/W MOVES ACROSS THE CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD FURTHER DEVELOP AND REMAIN THROUGH SUNSET. UPDATED ZONES TO INCREASE PRECIPITATION CHANCES...MAINLY NEAR THE COAST...AND TO ADD MENTION OF A FEW POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE PER STORM PREDICTION CENTER GUIDANCE. INCREASED CLOUDS FROM PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY AND LOWERED INLAND TEMPERATURES FROM THE UPPER 80S TO THE MID 80S. /22 .MOB... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE.
ALZ039-051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-290300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1145 AM CDT MON MAY 28 2001 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE... A LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY SEPARATING TWO DISTINCT AIR MASSES BISECTS THE REGION FROM WIGGINS MISSISSIPPI TO MONTGOMERY ALABAMA. A MOIST TROPICAL AIR MASS LIES TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THIS LINE WHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP...WHILE DRIER AIR LIES TO THE NORTHWEST. A MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON WILL INTERACT WITH AN INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT AND PRE-EXISTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES PROVIDING ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE DURING THE MAXIMUM HEATING HOURS THIS AFTERNOON WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON...THE MOIST TROPICAL AIR MASS WILL PUSH NORTH WHILE A WEAK SURFACE LOW AND A SECONDARY SHORTWAVE APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. THIS WILL INITIATE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI TO ANDALUSIA ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS THEN DIMINISH TOWARD SUNSET AS THE THUNDERSTORMS WEAKEN. ALTHOUGH THE SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO BE ON AN ISOLATED BASIS...ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED SHOULD A MORE ORGANIZED COMPLEX DEVELOP. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MOB.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck the transmitter of a local radio station, knocking the station broadcast off the air. The station was off the air for a couple of days while the transmitter was being repaired.
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: 5245117.