Hail, Baxter
- When
- May 30, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Baxter County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.280, -92.500
Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, May 30, 1977
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- 6
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.
Event by event
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Baxter
- When
- May 30, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Baxter County
- Coordinates
- 36.280, -92.500
Tornado, Jackson
- When
- May 30, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.750, -91.200
Thunderstorm Wind, Craighead
- When
- May 30, 7:25 PM CST
- Where
- Craighead County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 35.830, -90.650
Thunderstorm Wind, Poinsett
- When
- May 30, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Poinsett County
- Coordinates
- 35.530, -90.420
Thunderstorm Wind, Mississippi
- When
- May 30, 8:16 PM CST
- Where
- Mississippi County
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Coordinates
- 35.970, -89.950
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, May 30, 1977
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, May 30, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 30, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 30, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 30, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 30, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 30, 1977
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 30, 1977
- Tornado in South Dakota, May 30, 1977
- Hail in South Carolina, May 30, 1977
- Hail in Georgia, May 30, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 30, 1977
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1977Every state in 1977This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1977
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: 9983459, 9983460, 9983461, 9983462, 9983463, 9983464.