Hail, Natchitoches
- When
- February 28, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Natchitoches County, 5 mi NE of Provencal
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.700, -93.133
Hail in Louisiana, February 28, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 28, 9:10 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 9:10 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 910 PM CST WED FEB 28 2001 ELEVATED CONVECTION IN LARGE RAIN AREA STILL OCCURRING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WITH WARM AIR ADVECTION PATTERN ABOVE SHALLOW COLD AIR AT THE SURFACE. THIS PRECIPITATION IS STEADILY MOVING ACROSS THE SAME AREA. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED DURING THE LAST HOUR ACROSS EAST TEXAS FROM LUFKIN TO TYLER...AND THIS AREA WAS MOVING ACROSS SHREVEPORT. WILL HAVE TO INCREASE RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE WEST. WITH GROUND SATURATED FROM EARLIER RAINS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. A THUNDERSTORM OVER SHV JUST PRODUCED ALMOST A HALF INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE RANGES FROM 0.70 TO 1.3 INCHES ACROSS THE AREA. WITH STRONGER SHORTWAVE APPROACHING CWA LATE TONIGHT HEAVIER RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAVIEST RAINFALL TOTALS THE PAST 36 HOURS WERE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AS WELL AS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. 09 .SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES REMAINDER OF TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY.
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:32 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
- Heavy Rain in Washington, February 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, February 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, February 28, 2001
- Flooding in Missouri, February 28, 2001
- Flooding in Illinois, February 28, 2001
- Drought in California, February 28, 2001
- High Wind in Utah, February 28, 2001
- Dense Fog in Florida, February 28, 2001
- Funnel Cloud in Arizona, February 28, 2001
- Flood in California, February 28, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, February 28, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, February 28, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, February 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5230773.