Hail, Butler
- When
- April 12, 5:00 PM CST to 5:02 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County, Georgiana
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.633, -86.750
Hail in Alabama, April 12, 2004
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 12, 2:42 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 2:42 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 340 PM CDT MON 12 APR 2004 .SHORT TERM...NOT TOO MANY CHANGES TO CURRENT FCST PACKAGE AS GENERAL TRENDS AND TIMING ISSUES APPEAR TO HAVE CHANGED LITTLE WITH TODAYS MODEL RUNS FROM PREVIOUS. SVR THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FAR EASTERN ALABAMA COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM AHEAD OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPPED NORTH/SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. CONVECTION CURRENTLY ONGOING OVER CRENSHAW AND COVINGTON COUNTIES AND AREA SOUNDINGS INDICATE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. OTHERWISE...UPPER LOW PROGGED TO DRIFT ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES TONIGHT...AND SFC WRAP AROUND MOISTURE...AND COLD TEMPS ALOFT WILL MAINTAIN CLOUDY AND COOL CONDITIONS...WITH PCPN CHANCES THROUGH TUESDAY. GENERALLY TONIGHT EXPECT GOOD CHANCE TO LIKELY POPS OVER NORTHERN ZONES...PRIMARILY SHRA WITH A FEW TSRA POSSIBLE. LESER CHANCES ACROSS FCST AREA ON TUESDAY...WITH BEST CHANCE BEING OVER NORTHEASTERN ZONES. WITH DEEP TROF OVER EASTERN US THIS WEEK...MUCH COOLER TEMPS EXPECTED MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK. DROPPED MIN TEMPS A COUPLE OF DEGREES OVER MOST OF THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY MORNING. COULD SEE SOME MID 30S OVER MUCH OF THE INTERIOR. WILL LET LATER SHIFTS EVALUATE FROST POTENTIAL FOR TUESDAY NIGHT. && .EXTENDED...NO CHANGES HERE AS CONTINUED DRY CONDITIONS WILL PREVIAL THURSDAY INTO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK WITH HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATING. PLAN ON INTRODUCING SLIGHT CHANCE OVER FAR NORTHWESTERN ZONES NEXT MONDAY WITH APPROACH OF NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM. && .FIRE...NO PROBLEMS IN THE SHORT TERM (THROUGH TUESDAY)...BUT AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED DURING THE MID TO LATE PART OF THE WEEK. RETURN FLOW SHOULD HELP RH SITUATION LATER IN THE WEEKEND. && 12/SHEPHERD .MARINE...FRONTAL BOUNDARY PUSHES ACROSS AS HIGH PRESSURE NOSES INTO THE FORECAST AREA FROM THE PLAINS. LATE SEASON COOL SURGE RESULTS IN A STRENGTHENING OFFSHORE FLOW...SOME 20 TO 30 KNOTS...WHICH LOOKS TO ENCOMPASS THE TIGHT CLUSTERING OF THE MODELS FROM THIS MORNINGS RUN. THE OUTLIER IS THE MMGMOS...SHOWING A SHORT DURATION OF GALE FORCE WINDS. BUILDING SEA HEIGHTS LOOK TO BE A BOATING CONCERN FOR THE UPCOMING 3 PERIODS OR SO. WINDS AND SEAS SHOW A SUBSIDING TREND AS AXIS OF HIGH PRESSURE MOVES EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. && 10/MANISCALCO .PRELIMINARY TEMPS / POPS... MOBILE 51 61 38 69 / 40 20 00 00 PENSACOLA 53 58 42 67 / 50 20 00 00 DESTIN 58 57 42 68 / 50 20 00 00 EVERGREEN 51 58 36 65 / 50 30 00 00 WAYNESBORO 45 58 38 67 / 70 30 00 00 CAMDEN 52 58 36 65 / 60 30 00 00 && .MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY TONIGHT GMZ630-650-670. FL...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY TONIGHT GMZ655-675. MS...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 7:00 AM CST, 10 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED TO ADJUST SLIGHT RISK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 800 AM CDT MON APR 12 2004 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-122000- BUTLER AL-CHOCTAW AL-CLARKE AL-COASTAL ESCAMBIA FL- COASTAL OKALOOSA FL-COASTAL SANTA ROSA FL-CONECUH AL-COVINGTON AL- CRENSHAW AL-ESCAMBIA AL-GEORGE MS-GREENE MS-INLAND ESCAMBIA FL- INLAND OKALOOSA FL-INLAND SANTA ROSA FL-LOWER BALDWIN AL- LOWER MOBILE AL-MONROE AL-PERRY MS-STONE MS-UPPER BALDWIN AL- UPPER MOBILE AL-WASHINGTON AL-WAYNE MS-WILCOX AL- 800 AM CDT MON APR 12 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTION OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LOW PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL LIFT NORTHEAST THROUGH THIS EVENING...WHILE AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE OUTLOOK AREA FROM THE WEST. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT...ALLOWING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM GREENVILLE ALABAMA IN NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY...TO NAVARRE BEACH FLORIDA IN SOUTHEAST SANTA ROSA COUNTY. HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION AFTER MIDNIGHT...AFFECTIVELY ENDING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AS A SOUTHWESTERLY WIND FLOW INCREASES ALONG THE AREA BEACHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:40 PM CST, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 540 PM CDT MON APR 12 2004 ALZ056-057-122330- CONECUH-BUTLER- 540 PM CDT MON APR 12 2004 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER CONECUH COUNTY... ...THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTH TOWARD BUTLER COUNTY... AT 540 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAUL...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND...MCKENZIE... GARLAND...GEORGIANA...AVANT AND CHAPMAN THROUGH 630 PM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...SUDDEN WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH COULD DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS OR BRANCHES AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Florida, April 12, 2004
- Tornado in Florida, April 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, April 12, 2004
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 12, 2004
- Heavy Rain in New Jersey, April 12 to 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 12, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, April 12, 2004
- Flooding in West Virginia, April 12 to 14, 2004
- Heavy Rain in Maryland, April 12 to 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 12, 2004
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, April 12, 2004
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, April 12, 2004
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, April 2004
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: 5390913.