Hail, Sharp
- When
- April 3, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Sharp County, 3 mi SW of Cherokee Vlg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.267, -91.550
Dime sized hail occurred at Highland.
Hail in Arkansas, April 3, 2001
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 3, 1:30 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 1:30 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001 PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES EARLY TONIGHT WILL BECOME MOSTLY CLOUDY LATER. CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE DECREASING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON ACCOUNT OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY. DYNAMICS FOR WEDNESDAY DO NOT LOOK AS GOOD AS IN PREVIOUS RUNS...SO ONLY SLIGHT CHANCES WEDNESDAY. NEXT FRONT WILL BE COMING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...SO FORECAST WILL BE DRY BASICALLY FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO MOST OF FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL AND CONDITIONS WILL BE MUGGY WITH HIGH DEW POINTS. 32 .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 5:25 PM CST, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
625 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM 1 W GLENCOE AR .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 FULTON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER
0605 PM GLENCOE AR .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 FULTON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
22The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Rip Current in Florida, April 3, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, April 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Alabama, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- High Wind in Georgia, April 3 to 4, 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: 5242446.