Name: Hail in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
Start: 2001-02-24T15:00
End: 2001-02-24T15:00
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 24, 2:45 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 2:45 PM CST, 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
245 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

FRONT CONTINUES TO TRACK EASTWARD AROUND 30 KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON EXTENDS FROM NEAR DEQ TO TYR. STORMS SHOWING A
TENDENCY TO INCREASE...ESPECIALLY ON NORTHERN END OF LINE. SOUTHERN
PORTION OF LINE IS BROKEN AND ONLY LIGHTER SHOWERS. CURRENT TORNADO
WATCH RUNS UNTIL 5 PM FOR NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF CWA WITH ANOTHER
WATCH EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING FOR NORTHEAST
COUNTIES. FRONT SHOULD CLEAR ALL OF CWA BY MIDNIGHT WITH CLEARING
SKIES WORKING INTO AREA BEHIND FRONT. SUNNY SKIES EXPECTED ON SUNDAY
WITH NOT A LOT OF COOLING BEHIND FRONT. UPPER WINDS REMAIN SOUTHWEST
SO CLEARING WILL NOT LAST LONG. EXPECT INCREASING CLOUDINESS SUNDAY
NIGHT...MAINLY CIRRUS...AND BY MONDAY...CLOUDY MOST OF CWA WITH A
CHANCE OF RAIN PORTIONS OF EAST TEXAS. BY MONDAY NIGHT ALL OF CWA
CAN EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH RAIN LIKELY TUESDAY INTO
WEDNESDAY. MRF WANTS TO CONTINUE RAIN BEYOND WEDNESDAY...HOWEVER AVN
SHOWS ZONAL FLOW DEVELOPING WED NIGHT WITH TROF ...SO AT THIS TIME
WILL HOLD BACK ON PRECIP FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

SHV 46/70/45/65 7001
MLU 49/68/45/63 8001
TXK 47/67/43/62 3011
TYR 47/69/46/64 0013
LFK 48/74/45/68 3014

.SHV...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 24, 10:45 AM CST, 4 hours 15 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>167-241730-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1045 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON AND TRACK EAST REACHING NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE
REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS BY EARLY EVENING.

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND. SOME HAIL IS
ALSO EXPECTED AND A TORNADO OR TWO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. EXPECT
TORNADO WATCHES TO BE ISSUED BY EARLY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS
...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
WITH WATCHES POSSIBLE IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA EARLY THIS EVENING.

THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...HAM RADIO
OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...WILL LIKELY BE
REQUIRED THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.

Local storm report, Feb 24, 2:55 PM CST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
255 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0155 PM    EAGLETOWN                 OK   .75 INCH HAIL
02/24/01   MCCURTAIN                      DIME SIZE HAIL.  REPORTED
                                          BY GENERAL PUBLIC.

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The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:02 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Howard

When: February 24, 3:00 PM CST
Where: Howard County, Umpire
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.267, -94.050

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

More

Every storm in Arkansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, February 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: 5230689.