Name: Hail in Alabama, October 24, 2001
Start: 2001-10-24T20:07
End: 2001-10-24T20:07
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 Oct 24, 2:04 PM CST, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 2:04 PM CST, 6 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
304 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

A GOOD SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW CONTINUES TO PUMP MOISTURE INTO AL
THIS AFTERNOON, AND DEW POINTS WERE INTO THE 70S WELL INTO CENTRAL
AL. A STRONG AND FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THIS UNSTABLE
AIRMASS THIS EVENING, ENTERING NORTHWEST AL AROUND 00Z AND THEN OUT
OF THE AREA BEFORE DAYBREAK THURSDAY.  MOST UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT WITH
THIS SYSTEM REMAINS WELL TO THE NORTH WHERE THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF
SEVERE WEATHER, BUT LOW LEVEL FORCING AND GOOD INSTABILITY SHOULD BE
ENOUGH TO MENTION THE CHANCE OF SEVERE OVER THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF
THE AREA THIS EVENING. A SQUALL LINE WILL LIKELY PRECEDE THE FRONT
AND IT IS ALONG THIS LINE WHERE SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. AS THE
STORMS CONTINUE SOUTHEAST, THE AIRMASS WILL STABILIZE AND THE STORMS
SHOULD WEAKEN. A GENERAL COOLING TREND WILL BEGIN THURSDAY.

HSV 049/066 038/067 8000
BHM 052/069 038/068 7000
MGM 059/075 039/071 6000

.BHM...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 24, 6:50 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

ALZ001>050-250350-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
750 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA.

THE STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH NORTHWEST ALABAMA THIS
EVENING...AND PUSH ACROSS MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA
OVERNIGHT.  THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENTERED NORTHWEST ALABAMA AS OF 8
PM...AND WILL PROCEED INTO THE TUSCALOOSA...BIRMINGHAM...ANNISTON
CORRIDOR BY AROUND MIDNIGHT.

STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT.
THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN...OKLAHOMA...HAS PLACES
NORTHWEST ALABAMA FROM MARION...TO WINSTON...TO MORGAN...TO JACKSON
COUNTIES...AND NORTHWEST UNDER A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL 1 AM..  THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD
GRADUALLY WEAKEN AS THEY PUSH ACROSS THE STATE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT
OF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRING BEFORE 1 AM.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...ESPECIALLY
IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA...SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS EVENING.

Local storm report, Oct 24, 7:43 PM CST, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
843 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

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

0827 PM    WATERLOO                  AL   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   LAUDERDALE                     SEVERAL TREES DOWN, ALONG
                                          WITH DIME SIZE HAIL, IN
                                          THE CITY LIMITS.

0835 PM    LEXINGTON                 AL   0.75 IN HAIL
10/24/01   LAUDERDALE                     DIME SIZE HAIL WITHIN THE
                                          LEXINGTON CITY LIMITS.

0835 PM    OAKLAND                   AL   0.75 IN HAIL
10/24/01   LAUDERDALE                     DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          IN THE OAKLAND CITY
                                          LIMITS.

Local storm report, Oct 24, 7:52 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
852 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

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

0845 PM    LEIGHTON                  AL   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   COLBERT                        TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
                                          IN THE CITY OF LEIGHTON.
                                          REPORTED BY THE STATE
                                          POLICE DEPARTMENT.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Colbert

When: October 24, 8:07 PM CST
Where: Colbert County, 4 mi SW of Leighton
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.667, -87.567

Nickel size hail was reported in the Lagrange Community.

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

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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5270641.