Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 26, 2001

Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 26, 2001
Start: 2001-08-26T15:35
End: 2001-08-26T15:35
Location: Arkansas

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

Thunderstorm winds overturned a mobile home and destroyed two small stables about 3 miles east of Story.

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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 happened

The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.

Thunderstorm winds overturned a mobile home and destroyed two small stables about 3 miles east of Story.

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, 2:40 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:40 PM CST, 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
340 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001

SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON
IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. CAPES IN THIS AREA RATHER HIGH...IN BETWEEN
3000 AND 4000 J/KG...AND THINK THAT ADDITIONAL STORMS OVERNIGHT WILL
BE CONCENTRATED OVER CENTRAL/SOUTHERN COUNTIES.

STORMS WILL BE AHEAD OF SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT...WITH FRONT ENTERING
CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. FRONT WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS BY MONDAY...AND SOUTH OF THE STATE MONDAY NIGHT.

WITH FRONT IN ARKANSAS ON MONDAY...WILL HAVE A CONTINUING CHANCE OF
THUNDER MAINLY SOUTH OF LITTLE ROCK...WITH CHANCES DIMINISHING
MONDAY NIGHT.

YET ANOTHER FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE NORTHWEST ON TUESDAY...BUT
WILL HAVE LITTLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD
BEHIND THIS FRONT TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY...WITH DRY WEATHER IN THE
FORECAST.

HIGH WILL MOVE EAST ON THURSDAY...WITH SHORTWAVE APPROACHING FROM
SOUTHERN PLAINS. MOISTURE WILL BE PULLED NORTHWARD...WITH MORE
CLOUDS AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSHOWERS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

LOOKS LIKE SHORTWAVE WILL HEAD EAST BY SATURDAY...WITH MOISTURE
PUSHED OUT OF THE STATE. STRONG COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE
NORTHWEST BY SUNDAY/MONDAY...BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS
FOLLOWED BY COOLER WEATHER. (46)

.LIT...NONE

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Montgomery

When: August 26, 3:35 PM CST
Where: Montgomery County, 3 mi E of Story
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 34.700, -93.467

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.

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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: 5266073.