Hail in Arkansas, August 26, 2001

Name: Hail in Arkansas, August 26, 2001
Start: 2001-08-26T13:45
End: 2001-08-26T13:45
Location: Arkansas

August 26, 2001 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 2:15 AM CST, 11 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:15 AM CST, 11 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
315 AM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001

TODAY/S FORECAST CONTINUES MY THINKING FROM YESTERDAY. THE FRONT IS
SLOW. THUS TIMING WILL BE DIFFICULT...AFFECTING TEMPS AND RAINFALL.
HIGHS TODAY WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 80S IN THE NORTH TO THE MID 90S
IN THE SOUTH. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 60S BEHIND THE FRONT AND
IN THE 70S AHEAD OF IT. HIGHS ON MONDAY TO RANGE FROM THE UPPER 80S
TO THE LOWER HALF OF THE 90S. WIND SHIFTS WILL BE NEGLIGIBLE AS FAR
AS SPEEDS GO BEHIND THE FRONT. DRY AIR WILL BE ADVECTED INTO THE
STATE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD ON TUESDAY. THEN SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL TAKE
OVER ONCE MORE FROM WEDNESDAY ON. 32

.LIT...NONE.

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pike

When: August 26, 1:45 PM CST
Where: Pike County, Billstown
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.967, -93.567

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5266070.