Thunderstorm Wind, Polk
- When
- May 27, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County, 5 mi SW of Rich Mtn
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
- Coordinates
- 34.633, -94.417
Power lines were blown down about 5 miles southwest of Rich Mountain.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 27, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 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, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 12:30 PM CST, 8 hours 15 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, 3:56 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED AREAL OUTLINE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 301 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 456 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 301 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 20 COUNTIES... ARC045-053-085-117-119-145-280300- IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES... FAULKNER...LONOKE...PULASKI...GRANT...PRAIRIE AND WHITE ARC035-037-077-095-107-123-147-280300- IN EASTERN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 7 COUNTIES... ST. FRANCIS...MONROE...WOODRUFF...PHILLIPS...LEE...CRITTENDEN AND CROSS ARC023-280300- IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY... CLEBURNE ARC001-025-041-043-069-079-280300- IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES... LINCOLN...CLEVELAND...JEFFERSON...ARKANSAS...DREW AND DESHA 46
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:10 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
ARZ024-032>034-044>047-055>057-063>065-069-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 510 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 10 PM... TEMPERATURES SUNDAY AFTERNOON CLIMBED WELL INTO THE 80S TO NEAR 90 DEGREES...MAKING THE ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE. IN ADDITION... A WARM FRONT WAS MOVING FROM SOUTHERN INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS... AND WAS HELPING TO TRIGGER SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WITH SEVERE WEATHER A POSSIBILITY THIS EVENING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 10 PM. THE WATCH INCLUDES AREAS SOUTH OF HEBER SPRINGS AND WEST MEMPHIS...AND EAST OF CONWAY AND RISON. IN THE WATCH AREA...STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS ARE ADVISED TO PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. BE READY TO FIND A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. 46
Local storm report, May 27, 7:15 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
815 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM SNOW LAKE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 DESHA REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0510 PM 3 N ETHEL AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 ARKANSAS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0605 PM STUTTGART AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 ARKANSAS REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.
0640 PM 5 NE SARDIS AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 SALINE AT THE EAST END
COMMUNITY. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.
0720 PM ALMYRA AR 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 ARKANSAS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0800 PM 2 NW MT IDA AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 MONTGOMERY REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, May 27, 7:48 PM CST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
848 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM CROCKETTS BLUFF AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 ARKANSAS HAIL RANGED FROM THE
SIZE OF WILD PLUMS TO
GOLFBALL SIZE. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC.
0815 PM CROCKETTS BLUFF AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 ARKANSAS DIME TO NICKEL SIZE
HAIL. REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0815 PM MT IDA AR 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 MONTGOMERY WINDSHIELD BROKEN BY
HAIL JUST NORTH OF
TOWN. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0827 PM 2 E MT IDA AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 MONTGOMERY DIME TO QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, May 27, 7:59 PM CST, 46 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, 8 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.The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:45 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
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: 5250823.