Name: Hail in Oklahoma, April 14, 2001
Start: 2001-04-14T16:10
End: 2001-04-14T16:10
Location: Oklahoma

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 14, 2:35 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 2:35 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
335 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

A BATTLE BETWEEN THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS. THE HAVE NOTS ARE THE
MODEL GUIDANCE NUMBERS THAT HAVE NO SIGNIFICANT POPS TONIGHT AND
SUNDAY. THE HAVES ARE THE SPC AND THE PASSING OF THE FRONTAL
BOUNDARY SUNDAY. WE HAVE A LOW LEVEL CAP AT 875 MB NOT DIAGNOSED ON
MESOETA SOUNDINGS...AND THIS HAS PRESUMABLY PROVED THE DIFFERENCE
LOCALLY WITH LACK OF ANY RAIN. JUST TO OUR NORTH...TWO BANDS OF
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY TRACKED ACROSS NE TX/SE OK/SW AR ON THIS
SHIFT...BUT THINGS ARE LOOKING LESS ROWDY TO OUR W AND NW NOW. SO AT
LEAST WE KNOW WE HAVE A BREAK. SEVERE CONVECTION IS TRYING TO GET
GOING WEST OF DFW IN THE PANHANDLES OF TX/OK. THERE IS A SFC LOW
OVER OK PANHANDLE WITH DRY LINE SOUTHWARD FROM IT AND A WARM FRONT
EXTENDING ESEWD FROM THE LOW TO JUST NORTH OF MLU. THE DRY LINE
BOUNDARY SHOULD PROGRESS EASTWARD TONIGHT WHILE WARM FRONT MEANDERS
AND A COOLER COLD FRONT UP NORTH PROGRESSES SOUTHEASTWARD INTO AREA
SUNDAY. MODIFIED 12Z SOUNDING CAPES AND SHEARS AND LI/S AND K AND
EHI AND BRN AND WHAT NOT ALL POINT TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE
WEATHER...AND WILL KEEP A MENTION OF THAT POSSIBILITY IN ALL ZONE
GROUPS FROM I 20 NORTHWARD TONIGHT.

ZONAL FLOW ALOFT WILL EVOLVE INTO A NWRLY FLOW THROUGH THE
PERIOD...AND ETA HAS JUMPED ON A DISTURBANCE IN THAT NW FLOW THAT
WILL AFFECT OUR WESTERN ZONES MONDAY AFTERNOON. BUT SINCE THE ETA
STANDS ALONE FOR NOW...I/LL FOREGO ITS SOLUTION AND WAIT TIL
TOMORROW. BUT FOR THE FIRST TWO PERIODS...I/LL OPT TO GO WITH
SCATTERED POPS RANGING FROM 30 TO 50 PERCENT...EXCEPT ISOLATEDS DOWN
SOUTH TONIGHT. WILL KEEP ISOLATEDS DOWN SOUTH FOR SUNDAY EVENING.
THE EXTENDED WILL PROBABLY CHANGE FROM DAY TO DAY IN THIS TYPE OF
PATTERN BUT FOR NOW WILL GO WITH FRIDAY POPS. 17

PRELIMS...

SHV 68/83/59/78/51 4510
MLU 68/83/60/78/51 4510
TXK 65/79/57/75/47 5501
TYR 68/83/58/78/50 4401
LFK 68/87/63/82/55 2421

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 3:35 PM CST, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
435 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0500 AM    NAPLES                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   MORRIS                         TREES DOWN ON NUMEROUS
                                          COUNTY HIGHWAYS
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0535 AM    FOUKE                     AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   MILLER                         REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0610 AM    10 NE BRADLEY             AR   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01 c  LAFAYETTE                      TREE DOWN ACROSS HWY 53
                                          JUST NORTH OF WALKER CREEK
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

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Local storm report, Apr 14, 3:50 PM CST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
450 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0520 AM    5 S ATLANTA               TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   CASS                           TREES DOWN ACROSS HWY 251
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

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The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, McCurtain

When: April 14, 4:10 PM CST
Where: McCurtain County, 5 mi NE of Bethel
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.400, -94.783

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 Oklahoma in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Oklahoma, April 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: 5236614.