Thunderstorm Wind, Arkansas
- When
- April 20, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Arkansas County, Arkansas Post
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
- Coordinates
- 34.017, -91.333
Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 20, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, 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 20, 1:35 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 1:35 PM CST, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 235 PM CDT SUN APR 20 2003 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY... PRIMARY SHORT TERM CONCERN FOR TONIGHT IS THE FRONT...FOLLOWED BY TEMPERATURES...AND SPEED OF MOISTURE RETURN ON WEDNESDAY. HAND ANALYSIS PLACED COLD FRONT ROUGHLY FROM JBR TO SGT TO ELD AT 18Z. WILL LEAVE SLIGHT CHANCE TSRA FOR THIS EVENING FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT. SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT OF THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. MAY BE SOME WRAPAROUND CLOUDS OVER THE NORTH ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAKER BOUNDARY...BUT NOTHING TO BE TOO CONCERNED WITH. COOLER AIR WILL FILTER IN BEHIND THE FRONT...AND COOLER TEMPS ARE IN STORE FOR THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. AREA WILL REMAIN UNDER A NWRLY/NRLY FLOW FOR SEVERAL DAYS. THIS SHOULD QUELL ANY 80 DEGREE READINGS FOR A WHILE. HIGH PRESSURE WILL EASE ON BY TUESDAY NIGHT. FRONTAL BOUNDARY PROGGED TO STALL OUT CLOSE TO THE GULF COAST...WEAKEN...AND THE REMNANTS MOVE BACK TO THE NORTH BEGINNING LATE TUESDAY. AS THE HIGH MOVES EAST...SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL SET UP OUT AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING BOUNDARY. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE WILL NOT BE OVER THE FORECAST AREA UNTIL AT LEAST WEDNESDAY...MAINLY OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS. LIKE THE MAV AND MET NUMBERS THIS ROUND...AND STAYED FAIRLY CLOSE TO THEM. FWC SEEMS A BIT TOO WARM. 57. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY... WARM FRONT MOVES NORTH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES EAST IN THE PLAINS. AM HAVING A HARD TIME BUYING INTO THE SOUTHERLY TRACK OF THE GFS...SO WILL USE A BLEND OF THE PREVIOUS RUN...ALONG WITH THE CANADIAN AND EUROPEAN MODELS. AFOREMENTIONED MODELS SHOW SURFACE LOW TRACKING FARTHER NORTH...WITH PRECIPITATION MOVING OUT OF THE STATE FRIDAY. CLEARING WILL TAKE PLACE FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH A GRADUAL WARMING OF TEMPERATURES. 218. .COORDINATION... THANKS TO WFO SHREVEPORT FOR COORDINATION THIS AFTERNOON. FCSTID = 57 HRO 45 67 45 71 / 10 5 5 10 LIT 51 73 48 74 / 10 5 5 10 HOT 51 74 48 75 / 10 5 5 10 PBF 52 75 50 76 / 10 5 5 10 .LZK...NONE. 57/218
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 20, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 200 PM CDT SUN APR 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT EXTENDING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON WILL MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD OUT OF THE STATE TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER...THE CHANCES FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE STATE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 22
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:14 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, April 20, 2003
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Mississippi, April 20, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 20, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, April 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 20, 2003
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: 5349647.