Name: Hail in Arkansas, June 29, 2001
Start: 2001-06-29T04:45
End: 2001-06-29T04:45
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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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 Jun 29, 1:10 AM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:10 AM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
210 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

LATEST IR IMAGERY INDICATING COOLING CLOUD TOPS IN ADVANCE OF SHORTWAVE
ACROSS E OK THIS MORNING. SHORT TERM MODELS HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS
FEATURE DRIFTING SOUTH AND THEN SOUTHEAST ONCE IT ROUNDS THE BASE OF
OUR PESKY UPPER LOW. SYSTEM NOW APPEARS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI
OR NORTHERN AR. GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE ALONG SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR
OF THE SYSTEM TODAY INTO SE OK/NE TX/SW AR OR WHAT CONSTITUTES MY
NORTHWEST HALF. WILL HIT THE POPS HIGHEST THIS REGION TODAY WHICH IS
PRETTY MUCH ALREADY HIGHLIGHTED IN ZONE PACKAGE.

MODELS IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH 48HRS ON THEIR HANDLING OF THE
COLD CORE LOW WITH VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT EXPECTED THROUGH SAT MORNING.
DURING THE DAY SATURDAY...LOW TRIES TO BECOME ELONGATED IN RESPONSE TO
STRENGTHENING RIDGE OUT WEST. YET ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION APPEARS
LIKELY ON SATURDAY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST AND SWINGING AROUND THE BASE
OF THE SYSTEM AS THE LOW DRIFTS SOUTHWEST BEFORE BECOMING ELONGATED.
AGAIN...WILL TREND POPS HIGHEST FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST TO ACCOUNT
FOR THIS.

TEMPS PRETTY MUCH A CRAP-SHOOT WITH STATIONS IN AND OUT OF RAIN
CAUSING HEADACHES WITH VERIFICATION. FWC MOS TOO WARM WITH MAV NUMBERS
A LITTLE CLOSER TO REALITY.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE...13
SHV 85/69/87/69 5353  MLU 86/67/86/68 4343  TXK 81/68/82/67 6463
TYR 84/O71/83/71 5353  LFK 87/69/87/69 4242

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:00 AM CST, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
500 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0445 AM    DEQUEEN                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/01   SEVIER                         REPORTED BY LOCAL LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

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The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Howard

When: June 29, 4:45 AM CST
Where: Howard County, Dierks
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.117, -94.017

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, June 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: 5250655.