Name: Hail in Mississippi, May 24, 2001
Start: 2001-05-24T00:40
End: 2001-05-24T00:45
Location: Mississippi

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 23, 7:17 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 7:17 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
817 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2001

CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK WITH PRECIP MOVING INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS.
WILL PROBABLY UPDATE BASED ON RADAR TRENDS LATER IN THE EVENING...
BUT NO REASON FOR UPDATE AT CURRENT TIME.

.MEG...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 12:02 AM CST, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
102 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 PM    MEMPHIS                   TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/23/01   SHELBY                         NUMEROUS TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN
                                          THROUGHOUT MID TOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY MEMPHIS/
                                          SHELBY COUNTY EMA.

1000 PM    MEMPHIS                   TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/23/01   SHELBY                         SEVERAL WINDOW BLOWN OUT
                                          OF METHODIST PROFESSIONAL
                                          BUILDING. ALSO DAMAGE TO
                                          ROOF. REPORTED BY
                                          MEMPHIS/ SHELBY COUNTY
                                          EMA.

1000 PM    MEMPHIS                   TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/23/01   SHELBY                         7 TREES DOWN ON SEPARATE
                                          HOUSES IN MID TOWN.S
                                          REPORTED BY MEMPHIS/
                                          SHELBY COUNTY EMA.

Special weather statement, May 24, 12:30 AM CST, 10 minutes before

ARZ049-058-MSZ001>004-007-008-010>013-020-021-240700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
130 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

.IN EAST CENTRAL ARKANSAS...LEE...PHILLIPS

.IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI...DESOTO...MARSHALL...BENTON...TIPPAH
     ...TUNICA...TATE...COAHOMA...QUITMAN...PANOLA...LAFAYETTE
     ...TALLAHATCHIE...YALOBUSHA

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE MENTIONED
COUNTIES.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lee

When: May 24, 12:40 AM CST to 12:45 AM CST
Where: Lee County, Guntown
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Property damage: $10
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.450, -88.667

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

More

Every storm in Mississippi in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Mississippi, 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: 5245176.