Hail, McCurtain
- When
- February 24, 1:55 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, Eagletown
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.033, -94.567
Hail in Oklahoma, February 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 24, 10:15 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 10:15 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1015 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 FRONT CONTINUES TO TRACK EASTWARD AROUND 30 KNOTS THIS MORNING AND WAS NEARING FORT WORTH AT 10 AM. THIS IS SLIGHTLY BEHIND CURRENT FORECAST...SO A FEW ADJUSTS MAY BE NEEDED FOR THIS AFTERNOON. FIRST...POPS WILL HAVE TO BE LOWERED ACROSS LOUISIANA ZONES...AS LINE OF STORMS MAY NOT REACH SHREVEPORT UNTIL AROUND 5PM. THUS AREAS EAST OF THIS POINT WILL NEED HIGHEST POPS THIS EVENING. SEVERE POTENTIAL STILL LOOKS HIGH...AND PARTIAL CLEARING AHEAD OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL ONLY ADD TO THIS THREAT. TEMPS WILL HAVE TO BE RAISED...AND HIGHS NEAR 80 ARE NOT OUT OF REACH. WINDS WILL ACTUALLY HOLD TEMPS DOWN SOME DUE TO MIXING. HELICITY IS VERY HIGH DUE TO WIND SPEED SHEAR...NOT SO MUCH FROM DIRECTION AS WINDS CONTINUE TO BECOME MORE SOUTHERLY AHEAD OF APPROACHING TROF. HIGH WIND WILL BE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT BUT CAN NOT$ RULE OUT A TORNADO OR TWO...ESPECIALLY IF CONVECTION DEVELOPS AHEAD OF LINE IN THE STRONGER SHEAR ENVIRONMENT. UPDATE SHOULD BE OUT BY 11 AM. .SHV...NONE. 14
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 24, 10:45 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-241730- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1045 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND TRACK EAST REACHING NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS BY EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND. SOME HAIL IS ALSO EXPECTED AND A TORNADO OR TWO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. EXPECT TORNADO WATCHES TO BE ISSUED BY EARLY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WITH WATCHES POSSIBLE IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA EARLY THIS EVENING. THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:57 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, February 24, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kansas, February 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, February 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: 5230688.