1 extreme cold/wind chill, 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 Sep 26, 1:53 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 253 AM CDT WED SEP 26 2001 MODELS KEEP DRY AIR ACROSS THE AREA FOR NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...WITH MEAN RH VALUES AT OR BELOW 30 PERCENT. WILL KEEP SUNNY/CLEAR FORECAST INTACT...ALONG WITH TREND OF GRADUALLY MODERATING TEMPS. HSV 070/044/075/049 0000 BHM 073/045/079/050 0000 MGM 076/048/080/052 0000 .BHM...NONE.
ALZ001>050-DDHHMM- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 700 AM CDT WED SEP 26 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A LARGE AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTH...AND CENTRAL ALABAMA TODAY AND TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY.
ALZ001>050-261400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 700 AM CDT WED SEP 26 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A LARGE AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTH...AND CENTRAL ALABAMA TODAY AND TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The morning low temperature measured at the Huntsville International Airport was 38 degrees. This temperature established a new record low.
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, September 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: 5266171.