Hail, Escambia
- When
- April 4, 11:50 AM CST to 11:57 AM CST
- Where
- Escambia County, Bratt
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 30.967, -87.433
Hail in Florida, April 4, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 4, 10:00 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 10:00 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1100 AM CDT WED APR 4 2001 NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES ALL OF CWA EXCEPT STONE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI. WATCH WILL RUN UNTIL 400 PM. WILL UPDATE ZONES FOR NEW WATCH. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. WILL UP POPS IN EAST AND NORTHEAST ZONES. THOUGHT ABOUT ISSUING FFA BUT WILL HOLD OFF AS 3 HOUR PRECIPITATION TOTALS ARE JUST BELOW FFA NUMBERS. HAVE ISSUED A COUPLE OF FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BUT NO MAJOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED. QUICK LOOK AT NEW MODEL DATA SHOWS UPPER LEVEL HIGH STRENGTHENING ACROSS CWA TONIGHT. THIS SHOULD SHIFT RAIN EAST OF CWA TONIGHT. 01 .MOB... AL...SVR TSTM WATCH MOST OF AREA. FL...SVR TSTM WATCH NORTHWEST FL. MS...SVR TSTM WATCH MOST OF SOUTHEAST MS.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Frost and Freeze in California, April 4, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, April 4, 2001
- Hail in Texas, April 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, April 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 4, 2001
- Hail in Mississippi, April 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 4, 2001
- Hail in Tennessee, April 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 4, 2001
- Hail in Alabama, April 4, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 4, 2001
- Hail in Alabama, April 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, April 2001
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5240429.