Hail, Rapides
- When
- May 24, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Rapides County, Pineville
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.317, -92.433
Hail in Louisiana, May 24, 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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 24, 12:58 PM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 12:58 PM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 158 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...DEEP MID/UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER SOUTHEAST IOWA. SURFACE COLD FRONT ORIENTED NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST FROM JUST NORTH OF MONROE...JUST SOUTH OF SHREVEPORT...THEN SOUTHWEST INTO TEXAS BETWEEN WACO AND AUSTIN. SATELLITE PICS SHOWING ENHANCED CU/AC ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY. ACROSS FCST AREA...SKIES HAVE REMAINED MOSTLY SUNNY ALLOWING TEMPS TO CLIMB TO FORECASTED HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN MOVING FRONT ACROSS AREA THIS EVENING... TO NEAR AEX BY 00Z...TO COASTAL PARISHES AROUND 05Z. WHILE BEST DYNAMICS WILL REMAIN NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF REGION CLOSER TO LOW... INSTABILITY WILL BE HIGH ACROSS REGION. CAPES GENERALLY RUNNING 2000- 2500 J/KG ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 WHERE DEWPOINTS HAVE RISEN INTO THE MID AND UPPER 60S...DECREASING TO 1000-2000 OVER NORTHERN PORTION OF AREA WHERE DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO HOLD IN THE LOW 60S. STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES CONTINUING...NOTED ON MODIFIED LCH 12Z SOUNDING. WITH EXTENT OF INSTABILITY...COMBINED WITH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AHEAD OF INCOMING FRONT...HAVE OPTED TO BUMP POPS UP TONIGHT FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. WILL ALSO INCLUDE SEVERE WORDING IN THE ZONES. FRONT ROCKETS INTO COASTAL WATERS LATE TONIGHT. SOME DIFFERENCES IN MODEL SOLUTIONS FOR FRIDAY. WITH AVN/MAV HOLDING ONTO DEEPER MOISTURE AND PRECIP ACROSS AREA...WHILE NGM AND ETA SHOWING JUST SOME LINGERING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. WILL GO WITH MAJORITY SOLUTION AND MAINTAIN ZERO POPS TOMORROW. WILL KEEP RAIN CHANCE THROUGH THE WEEKEND HOWEVER...AS EXTENDED MODELS MOVE SEVERAL I3MPULSES ACROSS REGION AS UPPER LOW MEANDERS OVER UPPER MIDWEST. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 60/80/62/83/63 50032 BPT 64/83/64/85/66 50032 LCH 65/82/65/85/67 50032 LFT 65/82/65/85/66 50032 MARCOTTE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 1:44 PM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-250500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 244 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING... A LATE SEASON COLD FRONT AND A WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION WILL PROVIDE THE INGREDIENTS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS THE REGION. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALIZED FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE SEVERE STORM THREAT IS EXPECTED TO END BY MIDNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Local storm report, May 24, 4:06 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
506 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM PINEVILLE LA 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0405 PM PINEVILLE LA 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0410 PM TIOGA LA .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0414 PM 5 E TIOGA LA .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0415 PM PINEVILLE LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZED
HAIL FELL FOR 15 MINUTES.
0425 PM PINEVILLE LA .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0432 PM KOLIN LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0450 PM PICKERING LA .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 VERNON REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0450 PM EFFIE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 AVOYELLES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0450 PM EFFIE LA 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 AVOYELLES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0455 PM EFFIE LA .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 AVOYELLES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0500 PM BALL LA .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENTThe radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:30 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 24, 2001
- Hail in Louisiana, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Washington, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, May 24 to 30, 2001
- Tornado in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 24, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, 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: 5244552.