Thunderstorm Wind, Phillips
- When
- April 14, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County, Elaine
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.300, -90.833
More than a dozen power lines were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 14, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $5,000
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 14, 8:35 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 8:35 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 935 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 RADAR SHOWS LITTLE ACTIVITY OVER THE CWA...BUT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AR. EXPECT MOZRE RAIN LATER TONIGHT...BUT WILL STILL HAVE TO LOWER POPS AND DOWNPLAY THE WORDING FOR PRECIPITATION TO ACCOUNT FOR THE MAJOR BREAK. TEMPERATURES AND WINDS ARE ON TRACK. .MEG...NONE. 012
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:39 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, April 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 14, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, April 14, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 14, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, April 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 14 to 15, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, April 14, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 14, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, April 14, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, April 14, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, April 14 to 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5242216.