Hail, Izard
- When
- May 18, 2:20 PM CST
- Where
- Izard County, Horseshoe Bend Arpt
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.217, -91.750
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 18, 9:25 AM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 9:25 AM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1025 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001 MCS RAPIDLY FALLING APART IN WESTERN ARKANSAS AS OF 10 AM...WITH ONLY A FEW SHOWERS LEFT. PLENTY OF MID/HIGH CLOUDS ACROSS STATE THIS MORNING...BUT WOULD EXPECT SUN TO MAKE A RETURN THIS AFTERNOON. ADDED MORE SUNSHINE/LOWERED CHANCES OF RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. PLENTY OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ACROSS THE STATE AND A FRONT PUSHING INTO NORTHWEST SECTIONS. WITH SOME HEATING...STILL EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP...WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. OVERNIGHT...IN ADDITION TO BOUNDARIES/FRONT...UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER ARKANSAS FROM OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE NORTH AND WEST THIS EVENING...THEN DRY. FARTHER SOUTH/EAST...SYSTEM SLOW TO PUSH THROUGH...SO CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION MENTIONED ALL NIGHT. BY SATURDAY...LOOKS LIKE FRONT PUSHING TO SOUTH AND UPPER SYSTEM TO EAST. DRIER AIR LEFT BEHIND AND REMOVED MENTION OF THUNDERSHOWERS IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. IN CENTRAL/SOUTH...AFTERNOON HEATING MAY TRIGGER A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS...BUT MOST AREAS WILL REMAIN DRY. LOOKING AHEAD...FRONT WILL MOVE BACK TO THE NORTH SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY WITH GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY...STRONG COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM PLAINS WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AGAIN. DRIER/COOLER AIR EXPECTED BEHIND LATTER FRONT. (46) .LIT...NONE
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
- 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: 5250533.