Hail, Saline
- When
- May 31, 2:15 AM CST
- Where
- Saline County, Benton
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.567, -92.583
Hail in Arkansas, May 31, 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 2:35 PM CST, 11 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:35 PM CST, 11 hours 40 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
Local storm report, May 30, 8:46 PM CST, 5 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
946 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0840 PM PINE BLUFF AR WIND DAMAGE
05/30/01 JEFFERSON POWER LINES DOWN.
HANGAR BLOWN DOWN.
SEVERAL TREES BLOWN
DOWN. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
0840 PM PINE BLUFF AR .75 INCH HAIL
0@5/30/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, May 30, 8:50 PM CST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
950 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0933 PM MONTICELLO AR WIND DAMAGE
05/30/01 DREW AWNINGS AND SMALL TREES
DOWN ON EAST SIDE OF
MONTICELLO. REPORTED BY
STATE POLICE.Local storm report, May 30, 8:56 PM CST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
956 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0833 PM 4 N AMY AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 OUACHITA REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.
0907 PM GARNETT AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 qLINCOLN REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, May 30, 9:45 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1045 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0759 PM SPARKMAN AR WIND DAMAGE
05/30/01 DALLAS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0853 PM 15 NE RISON AR WIND DAMAGE
05/30/01 CLEVELAND TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
STATE POLICE.
0910 PM 10 S RISON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 CLEVELAND REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.
1015 PM 4 SW THORNTON AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 CALHOUN REPORTED BY GOVERNMENT
OFFICIAL.
1015 PM 4 SW THORNTON AR WIND DAMAGE
05/30/01 CALHOUN FEW SMALL TREES AND
LARGE LIMBS DOWN.
REPORTED BY GOVERNMENT
k OFFICIAL.The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:12 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
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 31, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 31, 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: 5249478.