Louisiana, 2001

Hail in Louisiana, May 26, 2001

May 26, 2001 · NWS LIX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
245 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO LIFT SLOWLY NWD OVER GULF COAST REGION
THIS AFTN AS INDICATED BY DEWPT ANALYSIS. LATEST RADAR IMAGERY INDICATED
A MORE STABLE ATMOSPHERE HAS DEVELOPED THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THIS
MRNG. THUS TSTM DEVELOPMENT IS UNLIKELY REMAINDER OF TODAY. HOWEVER WIDELY
SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA MAY DEVELOP IN NRN/CNTL LA AND CNTRL MS TONIGHT
AND DRIFT SWD INTO SWRN MS OVERNIGHT. SO WILL LEAVE POPS IN FOR THAT
SEC. WILL LEAN MORE ON ETA MODEL WHICH APPEARS TO BE DRIER IN MEAN RH
NEXT 60 HOURS. A LITTLE STRONGER S/W TROF FCST TO MOVE SEWD INTO THE
LOWER MS VALLEY LATE IN THE WEEK AND POSSIBLY BRING AN INCREASED
THREAT OF SCTD TSRA. IN THE MEAN-TIME NOT MUCH AREAL COVERAGE OF
SHOWERS LIKELY. ANOTHER WEAK FRONT MAY ACCOMPANY THE DISTURBANCE ALOFT
AND PASS SEWD THROUGH THE REGION BY NEXT WEEKEND.

MCB 63/87/65/87 2312    BTR 67/87/69/88 1212
MSY 68/88/71/88 1212    GPT 67/85/69/85 1212

.NEW...NONE.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.
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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pointe Coupee

When
May 26, 5:45 PM CST
Where
Pointe Coupee County, Batchelor
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
30.833, -91.667

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

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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: 5248925.