1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 24, 2:04 PM CST, 6 hours 41 minutes earlier.
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.
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.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.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
912 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 PM RUSSELLVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 FRANKLIN TREES DOWN WITHIN THE
CITY, ON LAWRENCE STREET
(STATE HIGHWAY 24).
REPORTED BY THE
RUSSELLVILLE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
921 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0910 PM 3SE SPRING VALLEY AL 0.88 IN HAIL
10/24/01 COLBERT NICKEL SIZED HAIL
REPORTED ALONG LAGRANGE
RD IN THE SOUTHEASTERN
PORTION OF COLBERT
COUNTY. REPORTED BY
COLBERT SHERIFFS OFFICE.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
929 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0922 PM MOULTON AL WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 LAWRENCE NUMEROUS TREES DOWN JUST
TO THE NORTH OF MOULTON.
REPORTED BY LAWRENCE
COUNTY EMA.ALZ001>017-022>024-030-250600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 934 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 803... COLBERT...FRANKLIN...LAUDERDALE... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 803 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM... BLOUNT...CULLMAN...DEKALB...FAYETTE...GREENE... JACKSON...JEFFERSON...LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE... MADISON...MARION...MARSHALL...MORGAN...PICKENS... SUMTER...TUSCALOOSA...WALKER...WINSTON...
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:44 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were blown down just southwest of the city of Decatur.
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, October 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: 5270643.