Hail in Arkansas, May 18, 2001

Name: Hail in Arkansas, May 18, 2001
Start: 2001-05-18T19:15
End: 2001-05-18T19:15
Location: Arkansas

May 18, 2001 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 18, 2:50 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:50 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
350 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001

MCS RAPIDLY FELL APART IN WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING...BUT UPPER
LEVEL SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH MCS RATHER STRONG AND ALONG
ARKANSAS/MISSOURI BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. COLD FRONT ALSO MOVING INTO
STATE FROM NORTHWEST. SCATTERED STORMS FLARED UP AHEAD OF
SYSTEM/FRONT...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH POSTED IN NORTHERN SECTIONS
OF THE STATE UNTIL 9 PM.

OVERNIGHT...IN ADDITION TO SYSTEM/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 ARDRIVE FROM PLAINS WITH
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AGAIN. DRIER/COOLER AIR EXPECTED
BEHIND LATTER FRONT. (46)

.LIT...NONE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 18, 3:58 PM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-191000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
458 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS
THIS EVENING...

A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG AND
AHEAD OF THIS FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE STORMS
SHOULD WEAKEN SOMEWHAT LATER TONIGHT ONCE THE DAYTIME HEATING IS
LOST.

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

STORM SPOTTERS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS
ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS EVENING.

45

Local storm report, May 18, 4:25 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
525 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001

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

Local storm report, May 18, 4:28 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
528 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001

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

0330 PM    1 W GLENCOE               AR   1 INCH HAIL
05/18/01   FULTON                         HAIL COVERED THE
                                          GROUND. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

Local storm report, May 18, 4:31 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
531 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001

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

0330 PM    1 W GLENCOE               AR   1 INCH HAIL
05/18/01   FULTON                         HAIL COVERED THE
                                          GROUND. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

Local storm report, May 18, 4:34 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
534 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001

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

0320 PM    2 SW HORSESHOE BEND ARPT  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/01   IZARD                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, May 18, 5:51 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
651 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001

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

0640 PM    PLAINVIEW                 AR   1 INCH HAIL
05/18/01   YELL                           HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
                                          QUARTERS NEARLY
                                          COVERING THE GROUND.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pike

When: May 18, 7:15 PM CST
Where: Pike County, Billstown
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 33.967, -93.567

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5250537.