Hail, Lawrence
- When
- May 30, 10:10 PM CST to 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence County, Imboden
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $500
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -91.167
Hail in Arkansas, May 30, 2001
2 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
- $510
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 7:27 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 7:27 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 827 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 NO DOUBT WILL BE ISSUING SEVERAL UPDATES TONIGHT TO HANDLE SEVERE WEATHER. COMPLEX ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI...BUT INSTABILITY AND CAPE DROP RAPIDLY ACROSS NE MISS AND MUCH OF W TN. WILL NOT MESS WITH LATER PERIODS OR TEMPS. 10 .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:11 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Randolph
- When
- May 30, 10:40 PM CST to 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Randolph County, Pocahontas
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.267, -90.967
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 30 to 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 30, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, May 30, 2001
- Flooding in Kansas, May 30, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, May 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 30, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, May 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 30 to 31, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 30, 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: 5245111, 5245112.