Hail, Sevier
- When
- May 27, 9:25 PM CST
- Where
- Sevier County, Horatio
- Measured
- 4.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.933, -94.350
Numerous cars were dented and windows and windshields broken.
Hail in Arkansas, May 27, 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
- $50,000
- 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 27, 9:00 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:00 PM CST, 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 MINI MCC OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST TX...AND SOUTHWEST AR...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ALONG THE WARM FRONT...WHICH THIS MORNING WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR ARDMORE OK TO TEXARKANA TO JACKSON MS. THIS WARM FRONT WILL LIKELY MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT. WITHOUT GOOD LOW LEVEL INFLOW INTO THE MINI MCC...AND WITHOUT STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS...EXPECT THE CONVECTION TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND PROBABLY WEAKEN AS IT MOVES EASTWARD. ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION MAY AFFECT THE NORTH HALF OF THE FOUR STATE AREA LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. WILL HAVE TO MAKE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO POPS AND TEMPS IN THE ZONES ON A LATE MORNING UPDATE...TO REFLECT THE MOVEMENT AND STRENGTH OF THE CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE MINI MCC...FOR THE AFTERNOON PERIOD. 3 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 27, 9:24 PM CST, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1024 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0955 PM EAGLETOWN OK 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 MCCURTAIN SOUTHEAST OF
EAGLETOWN...ONE HALF MILE
FROM STATE LINE. HAIL
SMASHED A WINDSHIELD OUT
OF A MOTORIST/S CAR.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:25 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
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado in New Jersey, May 27, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 27, 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: 5241900.