Hail, Randolph
- When
- August 24, 1:41 PM CST to 1:45 PM CST
- Where
- Randolph County, Pocahontas
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.267, -90.967
Hail in Arkansas, August 24, 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
- $10
- 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 Aug 24, 9:25 AM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 9:25 AM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1025 AM CDT FRI AUG 24 2001 MORNING UPPER ANALYSIS SHOWING 50H HEIGHT 20M TO 30M LOWER OVER AREA TODAY THAN YESTERDAY. SFC ANALYSIS SHOWING OUTFLOW BNDRY JUST PASSED THROUGH PARIS AND MOVING SLOWLY SWWD. THIS COULD SERVE AS THE FOCUS FOR SOME SCT AFTERNOON CONVECTION ACROSS NERN ZNS. CURRENT TEMPS RUNNING A COUPLE DEGREES LOWER THAN YESTERDAY AT THIS TIME AND WITH SCT MID/HI CLOUDS AND EXPECTED CU DEVELOPMENT NEXT FEW HOURS CURRENT TEMP FCST OF HIGHS A COUPLE DEGREES LOWER THAN YESTERDAYS SEEMS REASONABLE. NO CHANGES PLANNED AT THIS TIME. .MEG...NONE. MZ
The 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 24 to 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 24, 2001
- Hail in Texas, August 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 24, 2001
- Flash Flood in Iowa, August 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 24, 2001
- Hail in Texas, August 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 24, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, August 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, August 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: 5265888.