Hail, Carroll
- When
- April 3, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Carroll County, Osage
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.180, -93.400
Hail in Arkansas, April 3, 1998
As the center of an upper level low and cold pool aloft shifted over northern Arkansas, this was the first report of a larger severe weather outbreak that took shape over northcentral Arkansas and moved east into Tennessee.
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 happened
The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
As the center of an upper level low and cold pool aloft shifted over northern Arkansas, this was the first report of a larger severe weather outbreak that took shape over northcentral Arkansas and moved east into Tennessee.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:00 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 Georgia, April 3, 1998
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, April 3, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Tennessee, April 3 to 8, 1998
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 3, 1998
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 3, 1998
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 3, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, April 3, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 3, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, April 3, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 3, 1998
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 3, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 3 to 4, 1998
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, April 1998
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: 5637308.