Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- May 30, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, 1 mi N of Murfreesboro
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.083, -93.683
Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
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
- 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 30, 2:35 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:35 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 335 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT. WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS OVER ARKANSAS. OLD BOUNDARY REMAINS GENERALLY STATIONARY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. AFTERNOON HEATING MAKING ATMOSPHERE EVEN MORE UNSTABLE. WILL GO WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR FORECAST AREA FOR TONIGHT. SPC ISSUING TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN COUNTIES AS 4 PM. COLD FRONT OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE ON THURSDAY. WILL KEEP SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FORECAST AREA FOR THURSDAY...WITH CHANCES DECREASING FROM THE NORTHWEST AS THE FRONT PROGRESSES FARTHER DURING THE DAY. THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY LOOK TO BE PARTLY CLOUDY. AVN INDICATING ANOTHER FAST MOVING FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE FRIDAY NIGHT. MOISTURE SOMEWHAT LIMITED...BUT WILL INCLUDE SMALL POPS IN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY LOOK DRY. NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL BEGIN LATE MONDAY AND CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY. NGM MOS POPS AND TEMPERATURES GENERALLY REASONABLE. (22) .LIT...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 12:30 PM CST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-310400- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED ISSUE TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 130 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER MOST OF ARKANSAS. THERE IS ALSO A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER PARTS OF EXTREME WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF STORMS SHOULD BE OVER THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES. THE MAIN THREATS OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. BRIEF...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS AS WELL. EMERGENCY MANAGERS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS ANY SOME PARTS OF ARKANSAS. 16
Special weather statement, May 30, 2:50 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
ARZ037>042-052>054-066-310159- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 350 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 329 SOUTH AND WEST SECTIONS UNTIL 900 PM CDT... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING IN PARTS OF WEST AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ALONG WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS AS WELL. 16
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:53 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
- 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: 5249376.