Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- August 26, 1:45 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, Billstown
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.967, -93.567
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 26, 2001
Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed at Billstown.
Where it happened
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- 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 happened
The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed at Billstown.
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.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
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: 5266071.