Hail, Ouachita
- When
- May 7, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Ouachita County, 3 mi W of Bearden
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 33.733, -92.667
Hail in Arkansas, May 7, 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 7, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 325 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSHOWERS AHEAD OF FRONT WILL CONTINUE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS CENTRAL/SOUTH...WITH DRIER/COOLER AIR SPREADING INTO AREAS FARTHER NORTH. ON TUESDAY...FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OF ARKANSAS WITH PRECIPITATION ENDING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE STATE BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH DRY WEATHER IN THE FORECAST THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. ON FRIDAY/EARLY SATURDAY...YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE NORTHWEST WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSHOWERS. TEMPERATURES THIS WEEK WILL RUN A BIT ABOVE NORMAL...WHICH IS NOTHING NEW. LOOKING FOR 70S/80S DURING THE DAYTIME AND MOSTLY 50S/60S AT NIGHT. (46) .LIT...NONE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 7, 4:24 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
524 PM CDT MON MAY 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0516 PM HOT SPGS AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY STATE
POLICE AT STATE POLICE
TROOP HEADQUARTERS.
0518 PM HOT SPGS AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER 1 MILE WEST OF
OAKLAWN PARK. EVENT
DURATION 5 MINUTES.Local storm report, May 7, 4:31 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
531 PM CDT MON MAY 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM NEW HOPE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 PIKE REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, May 7, 4:58 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
558 PM CDT MON MAY 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM HOT SPGS AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER IN SOUTHERN
PART OF HOT SPRINGS
NEAR HIGHWAY 7. MOST OF
THE HAIL WAS DIME
SIZE...BUT SOME REACHED
THE SIZE OF Q<UARTERS.Local storm report, May 7, 5:41 PM CST, 24 minutes before
ARC019-080030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 641 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 636 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER OKOLONA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. && * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GURDON AROUND 710 PM CDT THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM IS DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. THE HAIL MAY CAUSE SOME VEHICLE OR ROOF DAMAGE. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME DAMAGE MAY OCCUR SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 3408 9336 3396 9340 3381 9296 3397 9295 22
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:05 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
- Heat in California, May 7 to 11, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 7, 2001
- Flash Flooding in U.S. Virgin Islands, May 7 to 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 7, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 7, 2001
- High Wind in North Dakota, May 7, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 7, 2001
- Funnel Clouds in Texas, May 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 7, 2001
- Heat in California, May 7 to 31, 2001
- Hail in Texas, May 7, 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: 5249559.