Hail, Garland
- When
- May 27, 10:10 PM CST to 10:16 PM CST
- Where
- Garland County, Hempwallace
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.433, -93.200
Hail up to one inch in diameter fell for 6 minutes.
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
- 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 27, 12:30 PM CST, 9 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 12:30 PM CST, 9 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 130 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 MCS COMPLEX COULD AFFECT AR LATER TONIGHT WITH NW FLOW AND GOOD PVA INDICATED ACROSS WEST AND SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. IN THE MEANTIME WEAK OUTFLOW FROM NE TX CONVECTION EARLIER MAY SET OFF CONVECTION CENTRAL AND SOUTH THIS EVE SO PUT CHC POPS THIS EVENING THEN INCREASING TO LIKELY LATER WITH MAIN SYSTEM. MOS POPS PROBABLY TOO LOW FOR MON AND TUE AS ATMOS STILL UNSTABLE ENUF ESPECIALLY ON TUE WITH GOOD PVA AGAIN MOVING ACRS STATE IN NW FLOW. SHUD BE SCT TSTMS THRU WED AS UPPER SYSTEM OVER IL BEGINS TO FINALLY MOVE EAST BY END OF WEEK. (ZIEGENBEIN - MY LAST AFD/ZONES - RETIRING AFT@ER 32 YEARS) .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 27, 7:59 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
859 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0845 PM HOLLY GROVE AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 MONROE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 27, 8:37 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
937 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM DAISY AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 PIKE REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, May 27, 9:08 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1008 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0937 PM DAISY AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 PIKE EVENT DURATION 3
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0938 PM 5 S KIRBY AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 PIKE IN THE COWHIDE AREA.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
lLocal storm report, May 27, 9:29 PM CST, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1029 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1020 PM 5 SSW KIRBY AR WIND DAMAGE
05/27/01 PIKE LARGE LIMBS DOWN AT
COWHIDE COVE ON LAKE
GREESON. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.Local storm report, May 27, 9:51 PM CST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1051 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1045 PM 5 SSW KIRBY AR FLOOD
05/27/01 PIKE WATER OVER ARKANSAS
HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN
MURFREESBORO AND KIRBY.
WATER POURING OFF THE
HILL AT COWHIDE COVE.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, May 27, 10:09 PM CST, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1109 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 PM 5 S KIRBY AR FLOOD
05/27/01 PIKE 4 FEET OF WATER ON
ARKANSAS HIGHWAY 27.
NEARBY CAMPGROUNDS ON
s LAKE GREESON BEING
EVACUATED. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.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
- 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: 5250828.