Hail, Yell
- When
- May 21, 1:15 AM CST
- Where
- Yell County, Centerville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.117, -93.167
Hail in Arkansas, May 21, 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 20, 2:40 PM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 2:40 PM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 340 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001 ONE ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON...WITH QUITE A FEW REPORTS OF STRONG/DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. MAY HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF TORNADOES AS WELL. MORE TO COME TONIGHT. SATELLITE SHOWING THAT STORMS THIS MORNING MOVING EAST OF REGION. SKIES CLEARING...WITH SUN WARMING ATMOSPHERE IN A HURRY. AT THE SAME TIME...SYSTEM ALOFT MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS/NORTHERN OKLAHOMA...WITH SCATTERED STORMS FIRING JUST AHEAD OF SYSTEM. TORNADO WATCH POSTED UNTIL 9PM IN MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. SYSTEM ALOFT WILL MOVE OVER NORTHERN/CENTRAL ARKANSAS TONIGHT. STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE FROM THE NORTHWEST BY 7 AM MONDAY. FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH SYSTEM ALOFT TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY. WORDED ACCORDINGLY IN FORECAST. FRONT WILL CONTINUE PUSHING THROUGH SOUTHERN ARKANSAS MONDAY MORNING...WITH SEVERE WEATHER STILL POSSIBLE AHEAD OF FRONT. BEHIND FRONT...DRAMATICALLY COOLER WITH BREEZY NORTHWEST WIND AND LOTS OF CLOUDS. LOOKS LIKE THERE WILL BE SOME LEFTOVER RAIN/A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS AS WELL. MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY...CLOUDS WILL DECREASE WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES EXPECTED. LOOKING AHEAD...UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE IN OHIO VALLEY WILL RETROGRADE TOWARD ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY...WITH PLENTY OF CLOUDS/COOL WEATHER CONTINUING. UPPER LOW WILL DRIFT BACK TO THE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH NOT AS MANY CLOUDS AND A SLOW WARMUP. (46) .LIT...NONE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 20, 7:15 PM CST, 6 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
815 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM SEARCY AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 WHITE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 20, 7:21 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
821 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0755 PM 5 E ANTIOCH AR TORNADO
05/20/01 WHITE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN
AN OPEN AREA AND NO
DAMAGE REPORTED.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 20, 9:48 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1048 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1203 PM 9 N ENOLA AR WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 FAULKNER TREE ON HOUSE. REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
0645 PM 1 W SPRINGHILL AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 FAULKNER REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0700 PM 2 NE GREENBRIER AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 FAULKNER REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0705 PM 6 E GREENBRIER AR WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 FAULKNER 6 TREES DOWN AROUND A
HOUSE. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
0829 PM BALD KNOB AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 WHITE REPORTED BY MOUNTAIN
SPRINGS FIRE DEPT.
0957 PM 2 SE LONDON AR 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 POPE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1005 PM LONDON AR 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 POPE HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND. REPORTED BY
STORM SPOTTER.
1015 PM RUSSELLVILLE AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 POPE 1 REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Special weather statement, May 20, 10:01 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>065-210601- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1101 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF ARKANSAS UNTIL 3 AM... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 3 AM MONDAY MORNING. THE WATCH GENERALLY COVERS THOSE AREAS NORTH OF A LINE THAT EXTENDS FROM DE QUEEN TO DUMAS. VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR HAS OVERTAKEN MUCH OF ARKANSAS. A STRONG COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST INTO ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...WINDS ALOFT SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW TORNADOES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PERSIST INTO THE MORNING HOURS. PEOPLE ACROSS ARKANSAS...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SHOULD KEEP TRACK OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION WHEN WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO...OR CABLE TV FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 45
Local storm report, May 20, 10:52 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1152 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1120 PM JESSIEVILLE AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1135 PM BENTON AR 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/20/01 SALINE POWER LINES DOWN..
REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
1142 PM 1 E VILONIA AR WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 FAULKNERa TREES DOWN.. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 20, 11:01 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1201 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1142 PM 1 E VILONIA AR WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 FAULKNER BARN BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1145 PM 4 SW (LRF)LITTLE ROCK AFB AR WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 PULASKI TREES DOWN AT GRAVEL
RIDGE. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
1145n PM FERNDALE AR WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 PULASKI TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21 to 22, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 21 to 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Dense Fog in Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 21, 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: 5250719.