Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 27, 2001
Start: 2001-05-27T21:30
End: 2001-05-27T21:30
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:00 PM CST, 30 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, 6 minutes 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), 155 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Sevier

When: May 27, 9:30 PM CST
Where: Sevier County, Central
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 33.900, -94.250

Hail, Sevier

When: May 27, 9:30 PM CST
Where: Sevier County, Central
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 33.900, -94.250

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
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

More

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: 5241901, 5241902.