Hail, Lonoke
- When
- July 12, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Lonoke County, 5 mi SW of Lonoke
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.733, -91.983
Hail in Arkansas, July 12, 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 Jul 12, 2:10 PM CST, 7 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:10 PM CST, 7 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 310 PM CDT THU JUL 12 2001 FORECAST CONCERNS: HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. INTERSECTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS TRIGGERED THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH BECAME SEVERE OVER LINCOLN AND LATER OVER DREW/DESHA COUNTIES. THE LATEST MODEL RUNS ARE IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT. THE MODEL OF CHOICE IS AVN. TEMPERATURES WILL VARY WIDELY BETWEEN THE RAIN-COOLED AREAS AND THOSE OTHER AREAS. THE HIGH PRESSURE WHICH MOVED WEST TO ALLOW THIS SYSTEM TO DROP DOWN UPON US WILL BE MOVING BACK INTO ARKANSAS BY MONDAY. TAHIS WILL BRING ABOUT A RETURN TO HIGH HEAT AND HIGH HUMIDITY. .LIT...NONE. 38
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:41 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
- Flash Flood in Washington, July 12, 2001
- Heat in Mississippi, July 12, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 12, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Montana, July 12 to 13, 2001
- Wildfire in California, July 12, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, July 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: 5260700.