Hail, Fayette
- When
- May 21, 2:35 AM CST to 2:45 AM CST
- Where
- Fayette County, Lambert
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $20
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.317, -89.483
Hail in Tennessee, May 21, 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
- $20
- 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 21, 1:44 AM CST, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 1:44 AM CST, 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 244 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 UPDATE AT 3 AM TO CLEAR WATCH...WITH MAIN PACKAGE AT 4 AM. APPEARS FROM PRESSURE PATTERN THAT COLD FRONT HAS CLEARED THE OZARKS. CONVECTION HAS DISTURBED WIND FIELD CONSIDERABLY. LINE OF CONVECTION HAS MOVED ACROSS MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN LAST 30 MINUTES... NO SEVERE REPORTS BUT OBS HAVE BEEN CARRYING 40 KT GUSTS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. AIRMASS HAS BEEN WORKED OVER PRETTY WELL ACROSS ERN AR AND W TN. COMPLEX OVER SE OK HAS BEEN DRIFTING SOUTH. MOST FAVORABLE AIRMASS FOR CONVECTION IS OVER NORTH MS...AND WILL PROBABLY CONCENTRATE ON THIS AREA FOR SEVERE WORDING. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM CURRENT CONVECTION MAY ALLOW REDEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL KEEP WITH SWODY1. LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS AREA-WIDE TODAY. WILL LINGER SHOWERS INTO THE EVENING...AS FRONT SLOWLY DEPARTS AREA. CLOUDS WILL BE SLOW TO CLEAR...PROBABLY LATE MONDAY NIGHT OR TUESDAY MORNING. PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO AID DIURNAL CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT ON TUESDAY. UPPER LOW GETS CLOSER ON WEDNESDAY WITH MORE CLOUDS. AVN VERTICAL MOTION FIELD LOOKS OVERDONE FOR WEDNESDAY...AND WILL LEAVE PRECIP OUT FOR NOW...CLOSER TO ETA SOLUTION. WILL PROBABLY NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO LOOK AT MRF CLOSELY... SO NOT PLANNING CHANGES TO EXTENDED. FIRST PERIOD POPS WILL BE BASED ON RADAR TRENDS PLUS ANY INPUT FROM 06Z MESO-ETA IF AVAILABLE IN TIME. 10 PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...VERY SUBJECT TO CHANGE. MEM TB 076/057 068/052 068 951 MKL TB 077/053 065/047 066 961 JBR TB 075/052 066/047 068 731 TUP TB 080/056 069/046 068 971 .MEG...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 20, 9:00 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS, TN
1000 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM WALLS MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 DESOTO TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0400 PM HOLLY SPRINGS MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 MARSHALL TREES DOWNREPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0415 PM BRUCE MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 CALHOUN TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0415 PM INDEPENDENCE MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 TATE TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0500 PM ETTA MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 UNION POWER LINES DOWN IN WEST
PART OF COUNTY REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT
0515 PM NEW ALBANY MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 UNION TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0615 PM OKOLONA MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 CHICKASAW TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0730 PM HAMILTON MS WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 MONROE TREE DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTLocal storm report, May 20, 11:04 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS, TN
1204 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0917 PM FAIR OAKS AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/20/01 CROSS REPORTED BY FOREST CITY
STATE WARNING POINT
0925 PM WYNN AR WIND DAMAGE
05/20/01 CROSS POWER LINE DOWN REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1115 PM MUNFORD TN MPH TSTM WIND GUST
05/20/01 TIPTON SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS
DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1120 PM COVINGTON TN MPH TSTM WIND GUST
05/20/01 TIPTON AWNING BLOWN OFF SOME
BUSINESSES REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTThe radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:35 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 Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21 to 22, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 21 to 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Dense Fog in Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, 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: 5245102.