Hail, Stone
- When
- July 26, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stone County, Fox
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.783, -92.300
Hail in Arkansas, July 26, 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 26, 9:55 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:55 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1055 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001 LOOKS LIKE GOOD CHANCES FOR RAIN IN THE COMING DAYS. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL REMAIN OVER REGION...BUT IT HAS WEAKENED SLOWLY THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. THIS HAS ALLOWED A COLD FRONT TO SLIDE INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS FROM MISSOURI. MEANWHILE...TROPICAL MOISTURE WAS BUILDING TO THE SOUTHEAST...AND WILL MOVE INTO ARKANSAS BY THIS AFTERNOON/TONIGHT. WITH THE FRONT IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND WITH MOISTURE IN PLACE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WITH MORE CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION... TEMPERATURES WILL NOT BE QUITE AS HOT AS IN PREVIOUS DAYS. BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...FRONT WILL HAVE MOVED BACK TO THE NORTH. IT APPEARS THAT THE HIGH WILL STRENGTHEN AGAIN...WITH THE HEAT RETURNING. (46) .LIT...NONE
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:57 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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, July 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 26, 2001
- Flood in Kentucky, July 26, 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: 5262321.