Hail, Sebastian
- When
- October 25, 3:04 PM CST
- Where
- Sebastian County, Ft Smith
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.380, -94.420
Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, October 25, 1997
2 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 3
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 radar
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Event by event
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Sebastian
- When
- October 25, 3:05 PM CST
- Where
- Sebastian County, Nr Hackett
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.220, -94.230
Hail, Crawford
- When
- October 25, 3:21 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, Van Buren
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.430, -94.350
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in Crawford and Sebastian Counties of northwest Arkansas during the afternoon of Octover 25th. A small tornado touched down briefly at 1505CST near Hackett. No structural damage occurred with this F0 tornado. Dime size hail fell in the south part of the city of Fort Smith and in Van Buren.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Oklahoma, October 25, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Nebraska, October 25 to 26, 1997
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, October 25 to 26, 1997
- Blizzard in Colorado, October 25 to 26, 1997
- Blizzard in Kansas, October 25 to 26, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, October 25 to 26, 1997
- Winter Storm in Kansas, October 25 to 26, 1997
- Tornado in Mississippi, October 25, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, October 25, 1997
- Tornadoes in Alabama, October 25, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, October 25, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, October 25, 1997
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1997Warnings in Arkansas, October 1997
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5624435, 5624436, 5624437.