Hail, Crawford
- When
- May 30, 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, 3 mi NW of Alma
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.517, -94.267
Hail in Arkansas, May 30, 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 8:22 PM CST, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 8:22 PM CST, 58 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 922 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH JUST ISSUED FOR SE OK VALID UNTIL 100 AM. THIS REPLACES THE TORNADO WATCH. ISOLATED SUPERCELLS CONTINUE ALONG/JUST N OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS SE OK. DIRECTIONAL SHEAR REMAINS MARGINAL...BUT DEGREE OF INSTABILITY WILL SUPPORT SEVERE STORMS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. STORMS ARE SHOWING A GRADUAL SEWD DRIFT WHICH WILL PUT THEM INTO FAR SE OK LATER THIS EVENING. ISOLATED ACTIVITY FARTHER N ALONG COLD FRONT HAS BEEN MARGINALLY SEVERE. UPDATED ZONES OUT ASAP. FCSTID = 18 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...SEVERpE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 100 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053...OKZ072>076.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 30, 6:51 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
751 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
....DELAYED REPORTS....
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1140 PM BURBANK OK WIND DAMAGE
05/29/01 OSAGE LARGE TREE LIMBS BROKEN
1150 PM FORAKER OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/29/01 OSAGE
1150 PM FORAKER OK 1 INCH HAIL
05/29/01 OSAGE
0500 AM 6 SSW PETTIT OK FLOOD
05/30/01 CHEROKEE INDIAN ROAD FLOODED
0908 AM BOX OK FLOOD
05/30/01 SEQUOYAH FLOODED ROADS VCNTY BOX
0915 AM HENRYETTA OK FLOOD
05/30/01 OKMULGEE MANY AREA ROADS
0925 AM OKEMAH OK FLOOD
05/30/01 OKFUSKEE AREA ROADSLocal storm report, May 30, 8:06 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
906PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM 1 N HIGGINS OK 1 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 LATIMER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT
0845 PM 6 S WILBURTON OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 LATIMER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT
DRMLocal storm report, May 30, 8:33 PM CST, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
933 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM 1 N HIGGINS OK 1 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 LATIMER REPORTED BY WILBURTON
EOC.
0845 PM 6 S WILBURTON OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 LATIMER REPORTED BY WILBURTON
EOC.
0850 PM KIOWA OK 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 PITTSBURG REPORTED BY MCALESTER
q EOC.
DRMLocal storm report, May 30, 8:54 PM CST, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
954 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM 1 SE YANUSH OK TORNADO
05/30/01 LATIMER BRIEF TOUCHDOWN.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.
DRMLocal storm report, May 30, 9:06 PM CST, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1006 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0950 PM BLANCO OK .75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 PITTSBURG PUBLIC REPORT
DRMThe radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 27 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:20 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
- 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: 5246905.