Arkansas, 2001

Hail in Arkansas, August 19, 2001

August 19, 2001 · NWS SHV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
250 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2001

MAIN QUESTION FOR THIS FORECAST IS RAIN CHANCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE
APPROACHING FRONTAL SYSTEM THAT CURRENTLY STRETCHES ACROSS C AR AND
INTO SE OK. MODELS DO NOT SEEM TO WANT TO PUSH THE FRONT DOWN MUCH
FURTHER...POSSIBLY TO THE LA/AR STATE LINE AT BEST TONIGHT THEN
PUSHING IT BACK N AS A WARM FRONT ON MON. MODELS SHOW GREATEST
INSTABILITY IN NE SECTIONS TONIGHT ENOUGH FOR SOME WIDELY SCATTERED
CONVECTION...MAINLY LATE. STRONGEST INSTABILITY APPEARS TO REMAIN NE
OF THE CWFA. FOR MONDAY...ALONG THIS AREA AND SWD ACROSS N LA
INSTABILITY APPEARS STRONGEST FOR SOME AFTERNOON HEAT INDUCED
ACTIVITY. OTHERWISE...IT LOOKS LIKE FINALLY THE MODELS WILL DELIVER
A LITTLE DRIER WEATHER OUTLOOK AS UPPER HIGH PRESSURE WILL SETTLE IN
OVER TX MON...AND INTO LA MON NT INTO TUE.

AS FOR THE TEMPERATURES...WILL SHAVE SOME OFF OF NGM MOS HIGHS.
STILL THINK THAT THEY ARE TOO WARM...ALTHOUGH WILL SHOW A WARMING
TREND THROUGH THE WEEK. THE ONLY RELIEF IN SIGHT AS OF RIGHT NOW IS
THE POSSIBILITY OF THE OUTER EDGES OF CHANTAL/S EXTENSION OF CLOUD
COVER AND RAINFALL ACTIVITY TO POSSIBLY REACH THE SRN PORTIONS OF
THE CWFA BY FRI AND INTO NEXT WEEKEND. AS OF NOW...MODELS SHOW THE
UPPER CIRCULATION WANTING TO DRIVE CHANTAL TOWARD NRN MEX...WITH THE
LA GULF COAST RECEIVING CONVECTION FROM THE EXTENSION OF CLOUD COVER
IN THE NE QUADRANT. HOWEVER...THE MODELING/S HANDLING OF TROPICAL
SYSTEMS THIS FAR OUT IS STILL QUESTIONABLE.

20

PRELIMS...

SHV 072/094 073/094 074 2200
MLU 073/092 072/093 073 2200
TXK 070/094 073/095 074 2200
TYR 071/095 073/095 074 0100
LFK 073/094 072/095 073 0100

.SHV...NONE.

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:33 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Nevada

When
August 19, 7:35 PM CST
Where
Nevada County, Bluff City
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
33.717, -93.133

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

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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: 5263197.