Thunderstorm Wind, Clay
- When
- September 8, 4:45 PM CST to 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, Mc Dougal
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.433, -90.383
A few power lines were knocked down.
Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, September 8, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $6,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Events
- 3
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 8, 12:41 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 12:41 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 141 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 AT EARLY AFTERNOON...SATELLITE AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS SHOWED CUMULUS CLOUDS STREAMING INTO OUR CWFA FROM THE SOUTH. ENOUGH SUN HAS BROKEN THRU TO BOOST TEMPERATURES INTO THE 80S. LAPS SHOWS CAPES BETWEEN ABOUT 2000 AND 3000 J/KG. KNQA 88D SHOWS FEW SHOWERS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM ABOUT NORTHEASTERN MO TO EASTERN OK. FORECAST LOOKS RATHER WET NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS...THEN EARLY TASTE OF FALL TO ARRIVE FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. THINK THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA WITH HEATING THIS AFTERNOON AND LINGER INTO THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...THINK ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT AS LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE INCREASES AHEAD OF APPROACHING SURFACE FRONT. FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT...THINK THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY AS COLD FRONT FINALLY PUSHES THROUGH OUR CWFA. PREFER SLOWER MOVEMENT OF ETA/NGM OVER AVN. UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS SUNDAY WILL PUSH EASTWARD INTO THE LOWER OHIO AND MIDDLE MS RIVER VALLEYS BY SUNDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL PUSH SURFACE COLD FRONT TO NEAR THE MS RIVER BY SUNDAY EVENING...THEN SOUTHEAST OF OUR CWFA BY MONDAY MORNING. SURFACE DEWPOINTS WILL FALL INTO THE 50S AND 60S MONDAY WITH CLOUDS CLEARING FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE 12Z AVN SHOWS DRY AND MILD WEATHER PERSISTING FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... MEM 76/86/68/83/64 4671 MKL 73/84/65/81/57 4671 JBR 74/86/61/82/60 466- TUP 73/85/70/83/62 4571 .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Clay
- When
- September 8, 4:45 PM CST to 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, Hickoria
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.383, -90.450
Flash Flood, Clay
- When
- September 8, 6:55 PM CST to 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, 2 mi S of Corning
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.368, -90.417 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Several highways had water covering them after over 6 inches of rain fell in Clay county in a few hours. The flooding produced widespread damage to the rice crop in the area.
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, September 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, September 8, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, September 8 to 9, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, September 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, September 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Indiana, September 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, September 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, September 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, September 8, 2001
More
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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: 5267927, 5267928, 5267929.