Hail in Alabama, July 25, 2004

Name: Hail in Alabama, July 25, 2004
Start: 2004-07-25T14:21
End: 2004-07-25T14:21
Location: Alabama

July 25, 2004 · NWS BMX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 25, 9:27 AM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 9:27 AM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1027 AM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

.UPDATE...

TEMPS CURRENTLY RUNNING NEAR/JUST BELOW LEVELS AT THIS TIME
YESTERDAY...AND I THINK THE CURRENT MAX TEMP FORECAST IS STILL ON
TARGET.  WE ARE SORT OF SURROUNDED ON 3 SIDES BY CLOUDINESS...WITH
CONVECTIVE COMPLEX TO THE NORTH AND WEST...AND ATLANTIC MOISTURE FED
CLOUDS TO THE EAST.  EXPECT THE CU FIELD AROUND HERE TO FILL IN
SOON...AS TEMPS REACH 90 DEGREE CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE.

I LIKE THE CURRENT CONFIGUARTION OF THE POP FORECAST AS WELL...WITH
HIGHER CHANCE POPS (50) TO THE NORTHWEST AND LOWER CHANCE POPS (30)
TO THE SOUTHEAST.  WINDS APPEAR TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE.

ALL IN ALL...WILL ONLY NEED TO MAKE UPDATES TO SKY COVER (GETTING
RID OF BECOMING WORDING...AND JUST SOME SMALL ADJUSTMENTS TO
HOURLY GRIDS.

&&

.BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 12:13 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
113 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

ALZ011>015-017>050-252359-
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-
113 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM.

.DAY ONE...(THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA.
THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS
GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSATE 20 AS A VERY MOIST AND
UNSTABLE AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE.  A FEW STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG
WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AS ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS WILL MOVE VERY
SLOWLY ACROSS THE AREA.

WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON:
BIRMINGHAM...MODERATE
MONTGOMERY...MODERATE

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTERS
MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:18 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
218 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0205 PM     HAIL             FULTONDALE              33.62N 86.80W
07/25/2004  0.75 INCH        JEFFERSON          AL   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:32 PM CST, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
232 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0229 PM     HAIL             FULTONDALE              33.62N 86.80W
07/25/2004  0.75 INCH        JEFFERSON          AL   AMATEUR RADIO

            ADDITIONAL PENNY SIZED HAIL

&&

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:35 PM CST, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
235 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0235 PM     HAIL             HOOVER                  33.38N 86.82W
07/25/2004  0.88 INCH        JEFFERSON          AL   AMATEUR RADIO

            NICKEL SIZED HAIL

&&

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:44 PM CST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
244 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0240 PM     HAIL             HOOVER                  33.38N 86.82W
07/25/2004  0.75 INCH        JEFFERSON          AL   AMATEUR RADIO

            PENNY SIZED HAIL IN THE BLUFF PARK AREA OF HOOVER

&&

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:58 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
258 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0250 PM     HAIL             1 W HOOVER              33.38N 86.84W
07/25/2004  0.75 INCH        JEFFERSON          AL   AMATEUR RADIO

            PENNY SIZED HAIL JUST WEST OF HOOVER

&&

Local storm report, Jul 25, 2:15 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
315 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0310 PM     TSTM WND GST     INVERNESS               33.40N 86.72W
07/25/2004  60 MPH           SHELBY             AL   PUBLIC

            FORMER NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED 60 MPH WINDS AND TREES DOWN
            IN THE GREYSTONE AREA OF NORTH SHELBY COUNTY.

&&

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:22 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bibb

When: July 25, 2:21 PM CST
Where: Bibb County, Woodstock
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 33.200, -87.150

Penny size hail was reported in the town of Woodstock.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alabama in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in Alabama, July 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: 5417159.