A broken line of severe storms produced scattered wind damage in portions of north Alabama early on April 28th.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS HUN wrote it up.
A broken line of severe storms produced scattered wind damage in portions of north Alabama early on April 28th.
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 Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 27, 11:20 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1220 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2013 .UPDATE... FOR 06Z TAFS && .DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 936 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2013/ SFC LOW WAS OVER WRN TN WITH CDFNT JUST WEST OF THE MS RIVER AND WARM FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS NRN AL. MEANWHILE THE UPPER LOW WAS OVER NERN MO. STILL NOT OUT OF THE WOODS FOR SOME STORMS OVERNIGHT...BUT THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SVR WX HAS DIMINISHED. THERE STILL COULD BE A FEW STORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. 07 && .AVIATION... FOR 06Z TAFS...A LINE OF SHRA/TSRA...AHEAD OF A CDFNT WILL AFFECT THE TAF SITES BY 07Z AT KMSL AND 08Z AT KHSV. THIS MAY REDUCE CONDITIONS TO MVFR BTWN 07-11Z. COVERAGE AND TIMING OF PCPN WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR THIS FCST PACKAGE...BUT A SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW WILL KEEP THE CHC OF SHRA/TSRA IN TAFS THRU 00Z SUNDAY EVENING. AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES EAST SUNDAY NIGHT...SHRA/TSRA ACTIVITY WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH. EXPECT MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS THRU MOST OF THE FCST PERIOD...EXCEPT FOR IFR/MVFR IN TSRA. MODELS ALSO ARE HINTING AT MVFR CEILINGS DEVELOPING ARND 04/05Z SUNDAY NIGHT. 07/SL.77 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/HUNTSVILLE.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 919 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2013 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-281000- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 919 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... A FEW SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MIDNIGHT. MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE SAME AREAS MAY ALSO RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON MONDAY WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. AN ADDITIONAL CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ON THURSDAY AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS UNLIKELY OVERNIGHT. BCC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
745 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2013
ALZ016-280130-
CULLMAN AL-
745 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN CULLMAN COUNTY
UNTIL 830 PM CDT...
AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CULLMAN TO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GOOD HOPE TO SUMITON. THIS LINE OF STRONG STORMS WAS
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL
BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CULLMAN...HANCEVILLE...GOOD HOPE...HOLLY POND...GARDEN CITY...
FAIRVIEW...SOUTH VINEMONT AND COLONY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM
THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR
VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3389 8701 3389 8709 3401 8700 3424 8694
3426 8646 3425 8652 3412 8660 3412 8663
3409 8668 3409 8669 3405 8668 3406 8671
3403 8670 3395 8679 3396 8682 3394 8682
3391 8692 3387 8693 3386 8699
TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 257DEG 27KT 3417 8688 3401 8692 3383 8706
70/DDSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1248 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2013
ALZ002-003-280630-
COLBERT AL-FRANKLIN AL-
1248 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN COLBERT AND
FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM CDT...
AT 1245 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RED BAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PEAS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUSSELLVILLE...RED BAY...LITTLEVILLE AND VINA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREE
LIMBS...ALONG WITH OTHER SMALL UNSECURED ITEMS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER
UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSSED.
&&
LAT...LON 3460 8814 3475 8786 3473 8781 3474 8775
3449 8756 3432 8808 3432 8817 3433 8817
TIME...MOT...LOC 0545Z 240DEG 46KT 3441 8816
SL.77The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:13 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds on Wagnon Mountain Road, about a mile and a half northwest of Crooked Oak, Alabama.
A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds on Loop Road, about 9 miles south-southwest of Tuscumbia, Alabama.
A tree was downed onto a power line by thunderstorm winds about two miles north of Littleville, Alabama.
Quarter size hail was reported.
Nickel size hail was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, April 2013
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: 437488, 437485, 437486, 437489, 437490.