Hail, Red River
- When
- October 12, 10:16 PM CST
- Where
- Red River County, 5 mi N of Clarksville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.683, -95.050
Hail in Texas, October 12, 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 Oct 12, 7:20 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 7:20 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 820 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 UPDATED FORECAST TO EXPAND FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTHWARD TO INCLUDE THE WESTERN HALF OF AREA. IN ADDITION...DUE TO THE EXISTENCE OF THREE DISCRETE AREAS OF STRONG CONVECTION...WILL ELIMINATE THE SEPARATION OF EVENING AND LATE WORDING ON TSTM COVERAGE FOR MOST LOCATIONS. .SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND AJCACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... ARZ050-051-059-070-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153- 165>167-131000- VII
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 12, 8:55 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
955 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 PM 8 SE COLUMBIA LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/12/01 CALDWELL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. FROM
CORPS OF ENGINEERSThe radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 177 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:13 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
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More
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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: 5269391.