Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- July 26, 2:40 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, Nathan
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 34.100, -93.817
Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs and power lines.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 26, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 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, 2:15 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:15 PM CST, 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 315 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001 SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER NORTH/CENTRAL ARKANSAS. LOOKS LIKE MORE RAIN COMING IN THE NEXT FEW 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 SOUTH/SOUTHEAST...AND WILL HELP MOISTEN ATMOSPHERE A BIT FURTHER. 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 Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:39 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
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: 5262323.