Hail, Newton
- When
- August 29, 12:50 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County, 5 mi NW of Deer
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.883, -93.283
Hail in Arkansas, August 29, 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 12:12 PM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 12:12 PM CST, 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 112 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ACROSS THE NORTH. KLZK RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSHOWERS DEVELOPING IN THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS. ALSO WENT WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY WORDING IN ALL AREAS. DECENT CUMULUS FIELD HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. HIGHER CLOUDS CONTINUE TO STREAM NORTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. .LIT...NONE. 51
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:48 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
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- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 29, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 29 to 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 29, 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: 5266074.