1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 6, 2:19 PM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 245 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 ALMOST A CARBON COPY OF YESTERDAY AFTERNOON...EXCEPT CONVECTION IN CWA A LITTLE SLOW IN DEVELOPING. HOWEVER...WATCH BOXES HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO THE WEST OF THE CWA AND TSTMS ARE DEVELOPING IN NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS. THE SHORT WAVE WHICH WILL KICK ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT WILL BE A LITTLE STRONGER THIS ROUND. DEWPOINTS ARE HIGHER AS WELL AS THE INSTABILITY. HOWEVER...LOOKING AT 18Z SOUNDING OUT OF FWD...LOW LEVEL SHEAR IS LACKING...SO ANY SEVERE STORMS IN THIS AREA WILL LIKELY BE HAILERS AND WIND PRODUCERS AS DRY AIR ALOFT WORKS EAST. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ZONES...MCCURTAIN COUNTY AND ADJACENT PORTION OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. HOWEVER NOT TOO CERTAIN ABOUT THE HEAVY RAIN... AS DRY AIR ALOFT LATER IN PERIOD AND THE UPPER TROF ACCELERATING EAST EARLY MONDAY MAY HOLD AMOUNTS AROUND ONE INCH. FRONT WILL BE SLOW CROSSING CWA MONDAY...NOT REACHING SOUTHEAST ZONES UNTIL LATE MONDAY NIGHT. THUS PRECIP WILL BE CONTINUED IN FORECAST THROUGH TUESDAY IN LOUISIANA ZONES AS WELL AS EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA DUE TO THE SURFACE TROF. AFTER TUESDAY...AVN ENTERS INTO A DRY PERIOD... UNLIKE THE MRF. WILL CONTINUE WITH THE CURRENT DRY FORECAST THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND UNTIL MRF HAS A BETTER RUN. SHV 65/83/64/80 4632 MLU 66/84/64/81 2432 TXK 62/80/61/78 7621 TYR 64/83/63/79 6421 LFK 68/85/63/82 4422 .SHV...NONE. 14
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
649 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 ~NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
735 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0725 PM LANEBURG AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail the size of nickels decreased to pea size. Hail fell for nearly one hour and completely covered the ground to several inches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2001
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: 5241067.