Hail, Tuscaloosa
- When
- July 10, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tuscaloosa County, Brookwood
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 33.283, -87.283
Penny size hail was reported in Brookwood.
Hail in Alabama, July 10, 2003
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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 2:00 AM CST, 11 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:00 AM CST, 11 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 300 AM CDT THU JUL 10 2003 ALL SHORT TERM MODELS GENERALLY AGREE ON THE UPPER PATTERN EVOLUTION...WHICH HAS BEEN MENTIONED SEVERAL DAYS IN A ROW NOW. PATTERN AMPLIFIES AND A TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE EASTERN US AND HANGS ON THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT WEEK. THATS ABOUT WHERE THE AGREEMENT ENDS. POPS/QPF/FRONTAL POSITION/TIMING ALL DIFFERENT LOOKING AT THE VARIOUS SHORT TERM MODELS. WILL HANG ONTO THE INITIAL THOUGHT OF THE FRONT NOT PUSHING AS FAR SOUTH AS THE GFS INDICATES BEFORE DISSIPATING/WEAKENING...SO A MIXED SOLUTION LOOKS BEST. BEST FORCING LOOKS TO BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING NORTH. WILL ONCE AGAIN TAPER POPS FROM NW TO SE TODAY AND TONIGHT. ON FRIDAY...BEST CHANCES WILL BE FROM ABOUT BHM SOUTHWARD AS CURRENTLY FORECAST. WILL NOW HANG ONTO SOME POPS FOR SATURDAY... GENERALLY SOUTH HALF. RETURN OF SCATTERED POPS SUN THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS SECONDARY SURFACE TROUGH MOVES INTO THE REGION. AT THIS TIME... LOOKS LIKE THE UPPER TROUGH WILL NOT SWAY CLAUDETTE TOWARD THE FORECAST AREA. CURRENT NHC GUIDANCE HAS CLAUDETTE NEAR BROWNSVILLE TX BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. STAY TUNED. OVERALL...NOT A GREAT DEAL OF CHANGE TO THE ONGOING FORECAST. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING...BUT THINK OVERALL THREAT IS RATHER LOW. MOS GUIDANCE HAS COME CLOSER TO OUR FORECAST POPS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND WILL STAY CLOSE. DO NOT HAVE ANY REASON TO DEVIATE TOO FAR FROM GUIDANCE TEMPS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BHM 88 72 87 68 90 / 40 50 50 - - MGM 90 73 89 70 91 / 30 30 50 30 30 .BHM...NONE. ML/75
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 12:16 PM CST, 44 minutes before
ALZ011>015-017>050-102000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 116 PM CDT THU JUL 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)... A FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST TONIGHT AND THEN STALL ON FRIDAY. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOPED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT. MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SEE STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY STORMS THAT MOVE THROUGH WILL BE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... DESPITE THE FRONT WEAKENING OR DISSIPATING ON FRIDAY...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN LOCATIONS. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR...LOCAL TV AND RADIO...FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:01 UTC.
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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 10, 2003
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 10, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, July 10, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 10, 2003
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 10, 2003
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 10, 2003
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 10, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 10, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 10, 2003
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 10, 2003
- Flash Flood and Flood in Indiana, July 10, 2003
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 10, 2003
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, July 2003
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: 5376309.