Hail in Arkansas, April 14, 2001

Name: Hail in Arkansas, April 14, 2001
Start: 2001-04-14T21:45
End: 2001-04-14T21:45
Location: Arkansas

April 14, 2001 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 14, 1:55 PM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 1:55 PM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
255 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

SATELLITE/RADAR LOOKING MORE CONVECTIVE THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST TONIGHT AS SYSTEM ALOFT IN
SOUTHERN PLAINS MOVES EAST AND INTERACTS WITH WARM FRONT MOVING INTO
SOUTHERN ARKANSAS.

ON SUNDAY...COLD FRONT IN PLAINS WILL PUSH INTO STATE...WITH
SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF FRONT. AS FAR AS
TIMING...LOOKS LIKE FRONT WILL MAKE IT THROUGH NORTH/CENTRAL
ARKANSAS BY EARLY AFTERNOON...WITH SOME CLEARING/BREEZY CONDITIONS
BEHIND FRONT. KEPT CLOUDS/CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN THE SOUTH MOST
OF THE DAY.

THROUGH SUNDAY...ATMOSPHERE RATHER UNSTABLE WITH STORMS THAT DEVELOP
POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE. APPEARS THAT LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN
SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

COLD FRONT TO SOUTH SUNDAY NIGHT WITH CLEARING/COOLER WEATHER. DRY
CONDITIONS IN THE FORECAST ON MONDAY AS WELL.

MUCH STRONGER FRONT/CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO ARKANSAS
FROM NORTH MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY. SOME CLOUDS/FEW SHOWERS ALONG
FRONT...BUT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY MUCH COOLER AIR. BY WEDNESDAY
MORNING...A FREEZE POSSIBLE IN NORTHERN COUNTIES...WITH SOME FROST
POSSIBLE CENTRAL/SOUTH.

WARMUP WILL FOLLOW THURSDAY/FRIDAY WITH MORE CLOUDS. CHANCE OF
SHOWERS/THUNDERSHOWERS BY THE END OF THE WEEK.   (46)

.LIT...NONE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 4:44 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
544 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0535 PM    5 W MENA                  AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   POLK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:29 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
729 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0723 PM    COVE                      AR   .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   POLK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0729 PM    MENA                      AR   .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   POLK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:42 PM CST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
1042 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0933 PM    1 S REDFIELD              AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0940 PM    WHITE HALL                AR   60-70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
04/14/01   JEFFERSON
SPOTTERS REPORTED

0943 PM    PINE BLUFF                AR   TORNADO
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

1000 PM    GRANNIS                   AR   .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   POLK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1007 PM    ALTHEIMER                 AR   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1007 PM    PINE BLUFF                AR   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1007 PM    WHITE HALL                AR   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

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Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:42 PM CST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FORMAT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1042 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0933 PM    1 S REDFIELD              AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0940 PM    WHITE HALL                AR   60-70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      SPOTTERS REPORTED

0943 PM    PINE BLUFF                AR   TORNADO
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

1000 PM    GRANNIS                   AR   .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   POLK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1007 PM    ALTHEIMER                 AR   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1007 PM    PINE BLUFF                AR   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1007 PM    WHITE HALL                AR   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT m

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The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pike

When: April 14, 9:45 PM CST
Where: Pike County, Salem
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.317, -93.617

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

Every storm in Arkansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, April 2001

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: 5241623.