Hail, Allen
- When
- May 24, 9:39 PM CST
- Where
- Allen County, Elizabeth
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.867, -92.800
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, 8:00 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:00 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 900 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 LITTLE TIME TO GET LONG WINDED. BASICALLY BEEN UPDATING ZONES FOR WATCH RECONFIGURATION AND TIMING OF FRONT/SVR TSRA. FURTHER UPDATES WILL BE LIKELY BE NEEDED AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON AS WATCHES EXPIRE/POSSIBLE REISSUED. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 60/80/62/83/63 70032 BPT 64/83/64/85/66 50032 LCH 65/82/65/85/67 50032 LFT 65/82/65/85/66 40032
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 24, 4:06 PM CST, 5 hours 33 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 ENFORCEMENTLocal storm report, May 24, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
930 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM ALEXANDRIA LA 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES
0541 PM 1 N PINEVILLE LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES
0545 PM ALEXANDRIA LA .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
DIME SIZED HAIL AT I-45 AND
US 165.
0555 PM FULLERTON LA 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 VERNON REPORTED BY FORT POLK
WEATHER.
0633 PM 5 N ELIZABETH LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
COVERED THE GROUND.
0635 PM 3 E GARDNER LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL NEAR
KINCAID LAKE.
0640 PM 10 W ALEXANDRIA LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES
0640 PM 3 N EFFIE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 AVOYELLES
0650 PM ALEXANDRIA LA .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES NICKEL SIZED HAIL FELL FOR
10 MINUTES AND COVERED THE
GROUND NEAR CHARLES PARK
SUBDIVISION.
0655 PM ALEXANDRIA LA 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES BASEBALL SIZED HAIL NEAR
THE COLISEUM.
0657 PM PINEVILLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES
0658 PM ELIZABETH LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 ALLEN GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL.
0700 PM ALEXANDRIA LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT
VICTORIA DRIVE.
0730 PM PINEVILLE LA 4.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 RAPIDES GRAPEFRUIT SIZED HAIL.
0735 PM CLEARWATER LA .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 EVANGELINE
0750 PM PINE PRAIRIE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 EVANGELINE GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT
CHICOT AND PINE PRAIRIE.
0820 PM REDDELL LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 EVANGELINE LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
COVERING THE GROUND.Special weather statement, May 24, 9:15 PM CST, 24 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>043-051-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-250500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1015 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 285 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 282 FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA HAS EXPIRED...BUT REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CAMERON... CALCASIEU...JEFF DAVIS...BEAUREGARD AND ALLEN PARISHES UNTIL MIDNIGHT... EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PULSING TO SEVERE LIMITS AT TIMES...TO CONTINUE FOR THE REST OF THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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: 5244555.