Hail, Yell
- When
- May 11, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Yell County, 5 mi W of Dardanelle
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.217, -93.233
Hail in Arkansas, May 11, 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 May 11, 3:00 AM CST, 9 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 3:00 AM CST, 9 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 400 AM CDT FRI MAY 11 2001 NGM POPS SEEM A BIT TOO LOW IN LIGHT OF THE PRESENT PATTERN. AVN HAS MORE REASONABLE NUMBERS. FRONT WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...SO POPS WILL CONTINUE TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY. TEMPS WILL BE IN A SHORT RANGE FROM NEAR 80 TO THE MID 80S TODAY AND FROM THE MID 70S TO NEAR 80 SATURDAY. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 50S AND 60S. LIT TB 085/060 080/056 082 32563 HRO TB 078/055 076/052 080 32562 PBF BB 085/063 079/056 081 32464 HOT TB 084/058 080/054 081 32563 .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 11, 6:54 AM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>033-037>041-111830- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 754 AM CDT FRI MAY 11 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER ABOUT THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD OF ARKANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO THE STATE BY LATE AFTERNOON. WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE IN PLACE ACROSS THE STATE...ESPECIALLY THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BREAK OUT OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO ARKANSAS BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. STORM SPOTTERS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONYIGHT. 22
Special weather statement, May 11, 12:30 PM CST, 0 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>046-052>054-120900- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 130 PM CDT FRI MAY 11 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER ABOUT THE NORTHWESTERN HALF OF ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT APPROACHING NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE BY LATE AFTERNOON. WARM... MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE STATE...ESPECIALLY THE NORTHWESTERN HALF. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA WITH A FEW OF THESE STORMS LIKELY TO BE SEVERE. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. STORM SPOTTERS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 52
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Texas, May 11 to 12, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 11 to 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 11 to 12, 2001
- Wildfire in California, May 11, 2001
- Hail in Texas, May 11, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, May 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 11, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 11, 2001
- Flooding in Missouri, May 11 to 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 11, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, May 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: 5250529.