Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 30, 2001
Start: 2001-05-30T17:35
End: 2001-05-30T17:35
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
215 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

ANOTHER DAY...ANOTHER DIFFICULT FORECAST HAMPERED ONCE AGAIN BY MODEL
DISCREPANCIES NOT HELPED BY THE LACK OF SOUNDING DATA INGESTED INTO
THE 12Z ETA RUN THIS MORNING. NEEDLESS TO SAY...QUITE A FEW DIFFERENCES
IN THE RUNS TODAY COMPARED TO THE RUNS LAST NIGHT.

18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWING THE OLD SURFACE BOUNDARY NORTH OF A ADM...
TXK...MLU LINE. DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE NEAR EMPORIA KS WITH A TRAILING
COLD FRONT/SFC BOUNDARY ACROSS N OK/NW TX. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS
GOING ACROSS PORTION OF NE LA WITH THE AID OF GOOD MOISTURE/WAA PATTERN
AND WEAK CAP. 18Z SOUNDINGS FROM FTW/SHV CONTINUE TO SHOW STRONG CAPPING
INVERSION IN PLACE ACROSS NE TX/NW LA...BUT NOT AS STRONG AS THIS MORNING.

UNCERTAINTY COMES INTO PLAY TONIGHT WITH WHERE AND WHEN STORM INITIATION
WILL OCCUR??? ALL SHORT TERM MODELS POINTING TOWARDS INITIATION NEAR OR
BEFORE 00Z FROM SOUTH CENTRAL OK INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF N TX WITH
STORMS FORMING A MORE LINEAR COMPLEX AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS N TX/
S OK OVERNIGHT. THIS SCENARIO WOULD NOT PUT THE STORMS INTO MY NW
SECTIONS UNTIL WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT TOWARDS THE PRE DAWN HOURS THURSDAY.
IF CAP BREAKS FURTHER EAST OF EXPECTED STORM INITIATION...MY NW SECTIONS
COULD SEE ACTIVITY MUCH EARLIER THAN THE 12Z RUNS INDICATE...MORE
INDICATIVE OF LAST NIGHTS MODEL RUNS. FOR THIS REASON...WILL LEAVE
HIGHEST POPS IN OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST TRENDING THEM LOWER
ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST.

COMPLEX SHOULD QUICKLY MOVE EAST DURING THE DAY TOMORROW PUSHING A STRONG
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SOUTH AND EAST OF THE REGION. ORIGINAL COLD FRONT WILL
TRY TO STALL ACROSS NE TX/SW AR BY AFTERNOON WITH AFTERNOON CONVECTION
GREATLY DEPENDANT ON HOW MUCH RECOVERY WE SEE FROM THE MORNING CONVECTION.
WILL SPLIT SECOND PERIOD POP FROM MORNING TO AFTERNOON TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS.

EXTENDED FORECAST CLEAR AS MUD WITH THE AVN/MRF LOOKING TOTALLY DIFFERENT
THAN ITS EARLIER RUN. EXTENDED PROGS WANTING TO GENERATE GOOD AMOUNT OF
LIFT AND ELEVATED MOISTURE WITH NORTHWEST FLOW SHORTWAVE DROPPING OUT
OF SOUTHERN PLAINS TOWARDS REGION FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY. NOGAPS NOT NEAR
AS STRONG WITH THIS SHORTWAVE BUT DOES GENERATE SOME QPF SO WILL ADD
PRECIP TO FORECAST FRI NIGHT ENDING PRECIP FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON SATURDAY.
WILL ADD SLIGHT CHANCES TO THE FORECAST FOR TUE/WED AS THE UNSETTLED
NW FLOW PATTERN WILL CONTINUE TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE...13
SHV 72/84/65/88 3621  MLU 71/84/66/87 3631  TXK 70/83/63/86 5721
TYR 69/84/63/88 5621  LFK 73/85/64/89 3531

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 4:45 PM CST, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
545 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0535 PM    GILLHAM                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01   SEVIER                         DIME SIZE HAIL. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Local storm report, May 30, 5:20 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
620 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0558 PM    GILLHAM                   AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01   SEVIER                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
                                          REPORTED BY THE GENERAL
                                    X      PUBLIC.

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:33 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Howard

When: May 30, 5:35 PM CST
Where: Howard County, 4 mi NW of Corinth
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.083, -93.883

Trees down across Hwy 369 and 26.

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.

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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: 5241906.