Hail, Union
- When
- May 30, 8:55 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, Lillie
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.933, -92.650
Hail in Louisiana, May 30, 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 May 30, 8:35 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 8:35 PM CST, 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 935 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 UPDATE JUST SENT OUT. REVISED TO TAKE OUT TORNADO WATCH HEADLINER WHICH EXPIRED AT 900 PM...BUT LEFT POSSIBLE SEVERE MENTION IN THESE ZONES...AS WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET. 00Z SHV SOUNDING SHOWING CAPE OVER 4900 AND LI AROUND -10. JUST WAITING FOR THE SYSTEM TO GET CLOSER. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVE POPPED UP ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS N LA. IR SATELLITE SHOWS MAIN AREA OF STORMS EXTENDING FROM MLC TO SPS AND ON TO JUST N OF SJT. LEFT POPS AS THEY ARE AS STORMS WILL BE EDGING TWD MY CWFA LATE. TWEAKED WINDS SLIGHTLY ACROSS NRN ZONES...OTHERWISE ZONES OK. 20 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 30, 4:45 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
545 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0535 PM GILLHAM AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 SEVIER DIME SIZE HAIL. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.Local storm report, May 30, 5:20 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
620 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM GILLHAM AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 SEVIER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
REPORTED BY THE GENERAL
X PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 30, 5:40 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
640 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0635 PM 4 NW CORINTH AR WIND DAMAGE
05/30/01 HOWARD TREES DOWN 4 MILES NORTH
OF THE INTERSECTION OF HWY
369 AND 26. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.Local storm report, May 30, 6:55 PM CST, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
755 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATI9ON....
0750 PM CROSSROADS AR 2 INCH HAIL
05/30/01 HEMPSTEAD REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:56 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 Texas, May 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 30 to 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 30, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, May 30, 2001
- Flooding in Kansas, May 30, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, May 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 30, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, May 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 30 to 31, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 30, 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: 5241908.