Thunderstorm Wind, Chicot
- When
- May 30, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Chicot County, Lake Vlg
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.333, -91.283
A few trees were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 30, 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
- $1,000
- 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 2:35 PM CST, 8 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:35 PM CST, 8 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 335 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 SUBSIDENCE INVERSION IN ASSOC WITH MID LEVEL RIDGE IS CAPPING ATMOSPHERE FOR THE MOST PART THIS AFTN...BUT WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS NRN PORTIONS OF AREA IS ALLOWING FOR ENOUGH SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE TO BREAK CAP...PARTICULARLY OVER N CNTRL/NE PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWER/TSTM ACTIVITY IS STRUGGLING TO PERSIST IN CAPPED ENVIRONMENT...DESPITE LIFTED INDICES APPROACHING -9. AS SUN GOES DOWN...EXPECT CONVECTION TO DIMINISH. WILL KEEP POPS LOW TONIGHT...WITH HIGHEST OVER NW ZONE GROUPING...WHERE ARE MAY BE AFFECTED LATE TONIGHT BY MCS TO DEVELOP OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION. STILL APPEARS THAT THUR/THUR NIGHT WILL BE THE BEST TIME FRAME FOR GOOD THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE. A SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS CURRENTLY OVER THE SRN/CNTRL PLAINS WILL TRANSLATE SOUTHEAST INTO THE LOWER MS VALLEY REGION THURS...AND ALL MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON THIS. BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS PICKING OUT THE DETAILS WITH THE COMPLEX SURFACE/THERMODYNAMIC PATTERN DEPICTED BY MODELS. AM IMPRESSED WITH THE UPPER JET STRUCTURE THAT WILL COME INTO PLAY BY LATE THURS...AND FEEL THIS SHOULD EVENTUALLY HELP CONVECTION TO BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED AHEAD OF A SOUTHEASTWARD MOVING COLD FRONT... AS SUPPORTED BY ETA/AVN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY PATTERNS. AGREE A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT EXISTS FOR MOST ZONES ON THURSDAY...BUT MID LEVEL WIND FIELDS LOOK A LITTLE TOO WEAK TO MENTION SEVERE AT THIS TIME AND WILL DEFER OPTION TO THE NEXT SHIFT WHEN THE PICTURE WILL HOPEFULLY BE A LITTLE MORE CLEAR. WITH PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT THURS NIGHT...EXPECT MOISTURE/INSTABILITY TO SWEPT OUT OVER ALL EXCEPT THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES...WHERE CONVECTION WILL LIKELY HANG ON UNTIL FRI MORNING. A DRIER AIRMASS WILL MOVE IN ASSOC WITH STRONG SUBSIDENCE. IN THE EXTENDED...ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROF WILL RACE TOWARDS AREA SATURDAY...BUT WITH LITTLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH...EXPECT ONLY A SMALL BAND OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AT BEST. MID LEVEL RIDGE WILL KEEP THINGS DRY SUNDAY AND MONDAY BEFORE RAPID RETURN FLOW INCREASES MOISTURE AHEAD OF NEXT SYSTEM TUES/WED. JAN 70/87/65/84/61 25521 MEI 68/88/66/85/60 25521 .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. 43
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- 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: 5245574.