Hail, Mobile
- When
- May 9, 9:42 AM CST to 9:45 AM CST
- Where
- Mobile County, 3 mi E of Mobile
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 30.700, -88.033
Hail in Alabama, May 9, 2006
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 May 9, 9:33 AM CST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 9:33 AM CST, 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1033 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 .SHORT TERM (TODAY)...WILL BE MAKING A LATE MORNING UPDATE TO ZONES TO MENTION SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #315 WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 5 PM CDT FOR THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. /10 && .MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 4:45 AM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 545 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-102300- BALDWIN COASTAL-BALDWIN INLAND-BUTLER-CHOCTAW-CLARKE-CONECUH- COVINGTON-CRENSHAW-ESCAMBIA-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-ESCAMBIA INLAND-GEORGE- GREENE-MOBILE COASTAL-MOBILE INLAND-MONROE-OKALOOSA COASTAL- OKALOOSA INLAND-PERRY-SANTA ROSA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND-STONE- WASHINGTON-WAYNE-WILCOX- 545 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AT THIS TIME THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TONIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENING AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. AT THIS TIME THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT AND ON WEDNESDAY. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:42 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 9, 2006
- High Surf in Oregon, May 9, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 9 to 10, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 9 to 10, 2006
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 9 to 10, 2006
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, May 9, 2006
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 9 to 10, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 9, 2006
- Hail in Mississippi, May 9, 2006
- Hail in Mississippi, May 9 to 10, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 9, 2006
- Hail in Texas, May 9, 2006
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, May 2006
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: 5506077.