Hail, Washington
- When
- May 9, 4:00 PM CST to 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Washington County, Millry
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.633, -88.317
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, 3:55 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:55 PM CST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 455 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 .UPDATE...PACKAGE UPDATE TO HANDLE NEW SVR WATCH...NUMBER 319...IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR NORTH-CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE FA. CURRENT FEELING WITH NEW WATCH IS THAT MS ZONES HAVE STABILIZED WITH THE ONGOING...BUT EXITING WEATHER...WITH COASTAL AREAS AND EASTERN MOST LAYER OF ZONES GENERALLY STABILIZED...ALSO. 16 && .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY)...ANOTHER ACTIVE CONVECTIVE DAY AS WE SEE A MOISTURE GRADIENT STRETCHING FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST...FROM WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TO ACROSS BALDWIN COUNTY AND CONTINUING SOUTHEAST INTO THE GULF. THIS FEATURE HAS BEEN THE PRIMARY FOCUS FOR SOME SEVERE STORMS OVER THE AREA...PRODUCING PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT TIMES OVER THIS REGION OF THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. SURFACE DATA SHOWS A DESTABILIZING AIRMASS WITH CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL ENERGY RISING TO OVER 2500 J/KG OVER THE WESTERN ZONES AND WE ARE SEEING A POTENT PIECE OF MID LEVEL ENERGY ENTERING WESTERN MISSISSIPPI WITH EAST SOUTHEAST FORWARD DIRECTIONAL MOTION. THIS BRINGS QUITE A BIT OF FORCING ALOFT INTO THE AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND WHEN INTERACTING WITH WEAK TROFS OF SURFACE LOW PRESSURE...INSTABILITY AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE...EXPECT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TO PERSIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ON WEDNESDAY...WE WILL BE WATCHING A STRONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHING THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE. LATEST OUTLOOKS FROM THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA MAINTAIN A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE AREA. WILL WORD THE ZONES ACCORDINGLY. LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE FORECASTS. /10 .LONG TERM...(WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)...FRONTAL PASSAGE IS FORECAST THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT. IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...RAIN FREE CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK AND INTO SATURDAY. MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE BRINGS NEXT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION TO THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. /10 && .MARINE...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL ADVANCE TO THE GREAT LAKES REGION AND BRING A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE MARINE AREA LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE AS THE FRONT APPROACHES...THEN SWITCH TO THE NORTHWEST AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. WILL GO WITH SMALL CRAFT EXERCISE CAUTION FOR THE OFFSHORE ZONES FOR TONIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION THROUGH FRIDAY WITH THE OFFSHORE FLOW SUBSIDING. AN ONSHORE FLOW RESUMES ON SATURDAY AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING A COLD FRONT INTO THE COASTAL WATERS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. /29 && .FIRE WEATHER...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE FORECAST EARLY ON WITH DAYTIME HUMIDITY ON WEDNESDAY...WELL AWAY FROM CRITICAL THRESHOLDS. IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...A DRIER AIRMASS ENTERS THE FORECAST ON THURSDAY. ALTHOUGH LOWER...NOT EXPECTING LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW DAYTIME HUMIDITY ON THURSDAY. /10 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MOBILE 69 87 66 83 / 50 40 40 10 PENSACOLA 69 83 68 85 / 40 30 30 20 DESTIN 70 81 70 82 / 40 30 30 20 EVERGREEN 64 86 67 81 / 50 40 40 10 WAYNESBORO 66 88 64 83 / 50 50 60 10 CAMDEN 65 86 65 80 / 50 50 60 10 && .MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 4:45 AM CST, 11 hours 15 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 9, 1:07 PM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 207 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ALZ051-091945- CHOCTAW- 207 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER CHOCTAW COUNTY... AT 201 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF YANTLEY...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND...OVER EXTREME NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY BETWEEN YANTLEY AND EDNA THROUGH 245 PM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
Local storm report, May 9, 1:51 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
251 PM CDT TUE MAY 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0120 PM HAIL CROSSROADS 30.83N 87.86W
05/09/2006 E0.75 INCH BALDWIN AL PUBLIC
1130 AM HAIL MALBIS 30.66N 87.85W
05/09/2006 E0.75 INCH BALDWIN AL PUBLIC
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PENNY SIZE HAIL FROM MALBIS TO
ELSANOR
0130 PM HAIL WHITEHOUSE FORKS 30.81N 87.81W
05/09/2006 E0.75 INCH BALDWIN AL PUBLIC
PENNY SIZE HAIL JUST EAST OF WHITEHOUSE FORKS ALONG HWY.
59
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CULLENSpecial weather statement, May 9, 1:55 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 255 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 FLZ003-004-006-092045- COASTAL OKALOOSA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA- 255 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER CENTRAL OKALOOSA COUNTY AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY... AT 252 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND... MILTON...BAGDAD...HAROLD...BELFOREST AND HOLT THROUGH 345 PM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 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 BRIEF 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, May 9, 1:55 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED STORM LOCATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 255 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 FLZ003-004-006-092045- COASTAL OKALOOSA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA- 255 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY... AT 252 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND... MILTON...BAGDAD...HAROLD...BELFOREST AND HOLT THROUGH 345 PM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 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 BRIEF 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, May 9, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 330 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ALZ051-092115- CHOCTAW- 330 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER CHOCTAW COUNTY... AT 326 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATER VALLEY...AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND... GILBERTOWN...SOUWILPA...TOXEY...HODGEWOOD...WIMBLY...CHAPPELL HILL... LOU AND WOMACK HILL THROUGH 415 PM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 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 BRIEF 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, May 9, 3:57 PM CST, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 457 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ALZ057-058-092245- BUTLER-CRENSHAW- 457 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BUTLER COUNTY MOVING INTO CRENSHAW COUNTY... AT 451 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF I65 AND AL 185...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND... SAVILLE AND HIGHLAND HOME THROUGH 545 PM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA.
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:59 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
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More
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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: 5506082.