1 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 Aug 14, 2:21 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 321 AM CDT SAT AUG 14 2004 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT - MONDAY NIGHT) SO FAR LIGHT WINDS ARE KEEPING TEMPS RIGHT AT THE RECORD VALUES THIS MORNING. STILL EXPECT MOST TO BE BROKEN BY DAYBREAK. TODAY SHOULD BE A TAD WARMER THAN YESTERDAY. DRY, COOL WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES THROUGH REMAINDER OF WEEKEND. EXPECT A SLOW WARMING TREND THROUGH MONDAY. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES MADE. && .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY - FRIDAY) MORE SEASONAL TEMPERATURES BY TUESDAY. DEEP SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW FCST TO DEVELOP BY THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY, AHEAD OF NEXT STORM SYSTEM, SO RAISED POPS TO CHANCE CATEGORY FOR END OF WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... GADSDEN 79 54 83 59 86 / 00 00 00 00 ANNISTON 80 56 84 60 86 / 00 00 00 00 BIRMINGHAM 80 58 83 60 86 / 00 00 00 00 TUSCALOOSA 81 59 84 61 88 / 00 00 00 00 CALERA 82 58 84 62 88 / 00 00 00 00 AUBURN 83 61 87 62 89 / 00 00 00 00 MONTGOMERY 85 63 88 64 91 / 00 00 00 00 TROY 83 63 88 64 90 / 00 00 00 00 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 88
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 115 PM CDT FRI AUG 13 2004 ALZ011>015-017>050-151230- MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN-CHEROKEE- CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR-TALLADEGA- CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA- CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE-MONTGOMERY-MACON- BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 115 PM CDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...(TODAY AND TONIGHT). NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL: BIRMINGHAM...NONE. MONTGOMERY...NONE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY). NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The morning low temperature observed at the Birmingham International Airport was 54 degrees.This temperature established a new record low. The previous record was 58 degrees set back in 1967.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, August 2004
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: 5416567.