Hail, Boone
- When
- July 5, 5:38 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County, Omaha
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.450, -93.183
Hail in Arkansas, July 5, 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 5, 2:45 PM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:45 PM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 345 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2001 NOT MUCH THUNDERSHOWER ACTIVITY IN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. WEAK SURFACE TROF THAT MOVED INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING HAS PRETTY WELL DISSIPATED...AND ALONG WITH IT THE THUNDERSHOWERS. SLIGHTLY LOWER DEWPOINTS HAVE MOVED IN FROM THE NORTHEAST AT MID AFTERNOON. WILL CONTINUE SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS FOR EARLY TONIGHT OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS...WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH DUE TO MORE UNSTABLE AIR IN THAT AREA. H5 RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD IN ON FRIDAY AND CONTINUES THROUGH THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO HEAT UP AS THE RIDGE BUILDS IN. WITH STILL SOME MOISTURE REMAINING...WILL CONTINUE SLIGHT CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSHOWERS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THEN A BACK DOOR FRONT AFFECTS THE FORECAST AREA ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH A LITTLE BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSHOWERS. A LITTLE COOLER AIR EXPECTED BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. NGM MOS MAXIMUMS A LITTLE TOO HIGH FOR FRIDAY...BUT LOOK GOOD FOR SATURDAY. NGM MOS MINIMUMS REASONABLE. WILL HEADLINE AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. (22) .LIT...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:42 PM CST, 4 hours 56 minutes before
ARZ007-014-016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-060300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 142 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS. THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO BE UNSTABLE AND AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE CLIMBING INTO THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES RELATIVELY HIGH AND WILL HELP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL APPROACH AND TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING GUSTY WINDS. ISOLATED LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. STORM SPOTTERS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS ARKANSAS MAY BE ACTIVATED LATER TODAY.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:46 PM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
ARZ007-014-016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-060300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 146 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS. THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO BE UNSTABLE AND AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE CLIMBING INTO THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES RELATIVELY HIGH AND WILL HELP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL APPROACH AND TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING GUSTY WINDS. ISOLATED LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. STORM SPOTTERS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS ARKANSAS MAY BE ACTIV/ATED LATER TODAY. 51
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 3:05 PM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
ARZ053-062>069-060400- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 405 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO BE UNSTABLE ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES RELATIVELY HIGH AND WILL HELP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHING COULD TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING GUSTY WINDS.h ISOLATED LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. STORM SPOTTERS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS ARKANSAS MAY BE ACTIVATED LATER TODAY. 51
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:38 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
- Heat in Texas, July 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 5, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 5, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 5, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arizona, July 5, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 5, 2001
- Tornado in New Jersey, July 5, 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: 5260424.