Hail, Grant
- When
- March 31, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County, 2 mi NE of Ico
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.467, -92.333
Hail in Arkansas, March 31, 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 Mar 31, 9:55 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 9:55 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 955 AM CST SAT MAR 31 2001 UPDATED FOR DENSE FOG ADVY EXPIRATION VSBYS HAVE IMPROVED RAPIDLY ACROSS THE FA SINCE 8 AM...WITH MOST AREAS AOA 7SM ATTM. WENT AHEAD AND ALLOWED DENSE FOG ADVY TO EXPIRE AND ALREADY UPDATED ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. AFTERNOON HEATING...COMBINED WITH COLDER AIR ALOFT...WILL RESULT IN INCREASING LAPSE RATES AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. JUST SPOKE WITH SPC FORECASTER CONCERNING POTENTIAL FOR HAIL WITH SOME STORMS. NEW DAY 1 OUTLOOK WILL BE UPDATED TO A SLIGHT RISK AT 1630Z FOR MUCH OF THE CWA. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. THANKS TO J. HALES AT SPC FOR COORDINATION C!ALL THIS MORNING. ..44.. .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:10 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-010100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1210 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS AT MIDDAY. THE FRONT WILL BE MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR ALREADY IN PLACE OVER ARKANSAS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. AT THE SAME TIME...COLD AIR ALOFT WILL BE ADDING TO THE INSTABILITY OVER THE STATE. AS DAYTIME HEATING TAKES PLACE AND THE FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE STATE...THERE EXISTS A POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. STORM SPOTTERS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. EVERYONE IS URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES. KEEP ADVISED ON THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS THIS AFTERNOON FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 32/44
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:57 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
- Hail in Mississippi, March 31, 2001
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, March 31, 2001
- Dense Fog in Illinois, March 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, March 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, March 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 31, 2001
- Dense Fog in Indiana, March 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 31, 2001
- Flood in New York, March 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, March 31, 2001
- Drought in California, March 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, March 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: 5236652.