Hail, Little River
- When
- August 26, 2:43 PM CST
- Where
- Little River County, Ashdown
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 33.667, -94.133
Hail in Arkansas, August 26, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 1:35 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 1:35 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 235 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001 WHOA NELLIE. MODELS SLOW DOWN THE PROGRESSION OF 1000/500 MB MOISTURE...NOW THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA REMAINS AOA 70 PCT THROUGH PERIOD. OUR SURFACE FRONT SEEMS TO BE A WASHOUT EARLY IN THE WORK WEEK...AND WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF GENERAL STEERING...WE/LL PROBABLY SEE ENUF SUN AND HEATING EACH AFTERNOON TO FIRE OFF THE NECESSARY CONVECTION. FACILITATING SOME CONVECTION PERHAPS WILL BE A MARGINAL 250 MB JET MAX OVER AR TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT... KEEPING PORTIONS OF AREA IN RIGHT REAR AREA. THE PREVIOUS DRY EXTENDED WILL BE DAMPENED A BIT WITH SLIGHT CHANCES THROUGH SATURDAY...EXCEPT FOR CHANCES FRIDAY. FMR/MEX POPS GO EVEN HIGHER BUT WILL NOT BITE ON THAT...AT LEAST TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. AN UPPER TROUGH IS FORECAST BY AVN TO MOVE INTO OK/TX AND TAP A RETURN FLOW OUT OF GULF...PEAKING DUE TO TROF AXIS PROXIMITY ON FRIDAY...THUS THE REASON FOR FAVORING FRIDAY/S POPS IN EXTENDED. RADAR GETTING ACTIVE...SO GONNA GO. 17 PRELIMS... SHV 73/92/72/93/73 4432 MLU 72/92/71/92/71 4432 TXK 73/92/73/94/73 5322 TYR 72/92/73/93/73 4432 LFK 72/92/72/92/71 3434 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 9:30 AM CST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-261630- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001 OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND A WEAK COLD FRONT...WILL SERVE AS FOCAL POINTS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEA BREEZE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA...FROM THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA TO CENTRAL LOUISIANA. WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...NEW OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL BE PRODUCED... WHICH IN TURN WILL HELP INITIATE ADDITIONAL OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS. THUS THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE FOUR STATES REGION. HOWEVER...A WEAK SHEAR ENVIRONMENT ALOFT MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...IF ANY AT ALL...WILL BE ISOLATED IN COVERAGE. THE ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND SKYWARN NETWORKS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT.
Local storm report, Aug 26, 2:40 PM CST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
340 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0255 PM 5 N DE QUEEN AR .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/01 SEVIER SHERIFF OFFICE REPORT.
VIII.The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:40 UTC.
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
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 26 to 27, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 26, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Ohio, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 26, 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: 5263200.