1 cold/wind chill, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 25, 1:21 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 221 AM CDT FRI JUL 25 2003 LATEST SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE A NICELY DEFINED DEWPOINT AXIS EXTENDING FROM NEAR COLUMBUS TO EVERGREEN TO MOBILE. THIS AXIS COULD SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR SOME THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER TODAY AND WILL GO WITH ISOLATED POPS ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTH TODAY. OTHERWISE...A GREAT DAY ON TAP AS MOISTURE REMAINS LIMITED ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA. LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW COULD ALLOW SOME LOW CLOUDS TO DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT AND WILL GO WITH PARTLY CLOUDY ALL SECTIONS. AS WE MOVE INTO AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND...SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL BECOME BETTER ESTABLISHED ACROSS THE AREA AND WILL GO WITH A TYPICAL SUMMERTIME FORECAST OF SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE POPS FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED ON MONDAY AS LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS AT ALL LOCATIONS. IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST(TUE-THU)...WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA ON TUESDAY AND THEN BOUNDARY WILL LINGER ACROSS THE AREA THE REST OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. WILL CHANGE THE FORECAST ON TUESDAY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ONCE AGAIN THIS MORNING...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SURFACE OBSERVATIONS AND SATELLITE FOR LOW CLOUDS/FOG DEVELOPMENT AND MAKE LAST MINUTE CHANGES JUST BEFORE RELEASE TIME. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BHM 89 69 91 71 91/ 00 00 20 10 20 MGM 90 70 92 72 92/ 05 05 30 10 30 .BHM...NONE.
ALZ011>015-017>050-241915- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 117 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The low temperature measured by the cooperative observer in Pinson was 60 degrees. This tied the previous record low which was previously set in 1988.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, July 2003
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: 5376684.