Hail, Ashley
- When
- May 18, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ashley County, Crossett
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.133, -91.967
Hail in Arkansas, May 18, 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 18, 10:45 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 10:45 PM CST, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1145 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO UP POPS FOR THE WRN SECTIONS. REST OF PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD. .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. 26
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 7:23 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 191200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 823 PM CDT FRI MAY 19 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF A CROSSETT ARKANSAS...GREENVILLE...GRENADA MISSISSIPPI LINE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT IN THESE AREAS. AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 191 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:58 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
- Flash Flooding and Flood in West Virginia, May 18 to 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, May 18, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 18, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 18 to 19, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, May 18, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 18, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, May 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 18, 2001
- Hail in Virginia, May 18, 2001
- Heavy Rain in Virginia, May 18, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 18, 2001
- Heavy Rain in West Virginia, May 18, 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: 5245241.