Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- May 7, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, Delight
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.033, -93.500
Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree and a power pole.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 7, 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 7, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 10 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 11 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 4 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, 37 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.The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:36 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
- 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: 5249554.