Hail, Johnson
- When
- April 19, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County, 2 mi SW of Hunt
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.517, -93.700
Hail in Arkansas, April 19, 2003
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 8:45 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 8:45 PM CST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 945 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 ...UPDATE THIS EVENING... CURRENT FORECAST IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE BUT GRIDS/ZONES WILL NEED TO UPDATED TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS. SHOWERS CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHEAST WITH THE OCCASIONAL STRONG STORM STILL HOLDING ON. MAIN FOCUS WILL BE LINE OF INTENSE CONVECTION MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE. CURRENT THINKING IS MOST WILL MISS THE CWA BUT IT WILL BE FOLLOWED CLOSELY. LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO MOVE FROM CENTRAL ARKANSAS TOWARDS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. STRONG DYNAMICS ALOFT APPEAR TO BE STAYING PRIMARILY TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE STATE. FRONT WILL PUSH INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS BY SUNDAY MORNING AND WILL EDGE SLOWLY EAST DURING THE DAY. MAIN DYNAMICS/WIND ENERGY WILL RIDE NORTH OF THE STATE GIVING FRONT LITTLE PUSH. DURING LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON HOURS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP IN AREAS MAINLY SOUTH/EAST OF LITTLE ROCK...WITH MOSTLY DRY WEATHER BEHIND THE FRONT. FCSTID = 56 .LZK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 6:28 PM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-201000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 728 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS OKLAHOMA DEVELOPED IN ASSOCIATION WITH A COLD FRONT AND AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ALOFT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ENTER WESTERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT THEN PUSH FARTHER INTO THE STATE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...MAINLY OVER WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS ON SUNDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE NEAR THE FRONT. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS...MAINLY DURING THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT. 51
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:47 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 Oklahoma, April 19, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 19, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 19, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 19, 2003
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 19, 2003
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 19 to 20, 2003
- High Wind in Texas, April 19, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, April 19, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, April 19, 2003
- High Surf in Hawaii, April 19 to 21, 2003
- Hail in Missouri, April 19, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 19, 2003
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, April 2003
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: 5349646.