Hail, Mobile
- When
- April 1, 3:41 AM CST to 3:43 AM CST
- Where
- Mobile County, Dauphin Is
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.250, -88.117
Hail in Alabama, April 1, 2005
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 Mar 31, 9:30 PM CST, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 9:30 PM CST, 6 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
930 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005
.MARINE...UPDATED TO INCLUDE SCA FROM BEACH OUTWARD SANS MOBILE BAY.
MAINLY CONCERNED ABOUT INFLOW INTO MCS FOLLOWED BY SYNOPTIC FORCING.
&&
.MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST FRIDAY ALL
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THIS EVENING GMZ650-670.
FL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST FRIDAY ALL ZONES.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THIS EVENING GMZ655-675
MS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST FRIDAY ALL ZONES.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 1:40 PM CST, 14 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 140 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 ALZ051>055-MSZ067-075-076-010400- CHOCTAW-CLARKE-GREENE-MONROE-PERRY-WASHINGTON-WAYNE-WILCOX- 140 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTION OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED THE AREA UNDER A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SUNRISE FRIDAY MORNING. THE AREA WILL REMAIN ON THE WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE SIDE OF A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT EXTENDS FROM CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INTO CENTRAL LOUISIANA. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS FORECAST TO PASS ACROSS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TONIGHT AND CAUSE A LOW PRESSURE AREA TO FORM OVER LOUISIANA. AHEAD OF THIS LOW...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. EARLY IN THE EVENT...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL OF A FEW TORNADOES. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS EVOLVE INTO A LINE...THE THREAT SHIFTS TO DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED SOIL COULD ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING...ALONG STREAMS...LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... AS THE SURFACE LOW LIFTS OUT...A STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUING INTO FRIDAY MORNING...BUT SHOULD END FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS FORECAST SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION TODAY INTO THE NIGHT. ALZ056>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ078-079-010400- BALDWIN COASTAL-BALDWIN INLAND-BUTLER-CONECUH-COVINGTON-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-ESCAMBIA INLAND-GEORGE-MOBILE COASTAL- MOBILE INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA INLAND-SANTA ROSA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA INLAND-STONE- 140 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED THE AREA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SUNRISE FRIDAY MORNING. THE AREA WILL REMAIN ON THE WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE SIDE OF A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT EXTENDS FROM CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INTO CENTRAL LOUISIANA. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS FORECAST TO PASS ACROSS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TONIGHT AND CAUSE A LOW PRESSURE AREA TO FORM OVER LOUISIANA. AHEAD OF THIS LOW...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. EARLY IN THE EVENT...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL OF A FEW TORNADOES. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS EVOLVE INTO A LINE...THE THREAT SHIFTS TO DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED SOIL COULD ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING...ALONG STREAMS...LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... AS THE SURFACE LOW LIFTS OUT...A STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUING FROM SUNRISE FRIDAY MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON...THEN TAPERING OFF WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS FORECAST SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION TODAY INTO THE NIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 1, 1:50 AM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 150 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005 ALZ052-053-010815- WASHINGTON-CLARKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GROVE HILL... 150 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES... AT 145 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAWTHORN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND... LEROY...PRESTWICK...JACKSON...WINN...WALKER SPRINGS AND ALLEN THROUGH 215 AM CST. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...WHICH 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. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER AROUND LOW LYING AREAS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW A SAFE CROSSING.
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:38 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
- Avalanche in Colorado, April 1, 2005
- Flood in New York, April 1 to 6, 2005
- Flood in Florida, April 1 to 7, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, April 1, 2005
- Flood in New York, April 1 to 5, 2005
- Flood in New York, April 1 to 7, 2005
- Flood in New York, April 1 to 6, 2005
- Flood in New York, April 1 to 6, 2005
- Flood in New Jersey, April 1 to 9, 2005
- Flooding in Florida, April 1 to 3, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Mississippi, April 1 to 2, 2005
- Flood in New York, April 1 to 6, 2005
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, April 2005
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: 5443161.