Hail, Clay
- When
- August 6, 4:55 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, Piggott
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $100
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.383, -90.183
Hail in Arkansas, August 6, 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
- $100
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 6, 3:14 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 3:14 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 414 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 SCATTERED STORMS ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING IN THE MIDSOUTH. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE APPROACHING SEVERE LEVELS. THUS...THINK OTHER STORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD BECOME SEVERE. HAIL SEEMS TO BE THE MAIN THREAT. THURSDAY...STAY IN NORTHWEST FLOW...BUT WL BE N OF THE FRONT. THUS...ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE OF TRWS. THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SAT NIGHT...THINK RAINFALL CHANCES WILL BE VERY LOW DUE TO HIGH OVER THE AREA. THEN...NEXT FRONT DROPS SOUTH INTO AREA TO GIVE A RATHER GOOD CHANCE OF TRWS SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .MEG...NONE. RENCH
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:05 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-070930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 405 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE MIDSOUTH TONIGHT ...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN TYPE OF BAD WEATHER. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN WILL BE OVER EAST ARKANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:12 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
ARZ008-009-018-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 312 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...CLAY...GREENE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER BIGGERS AT 312 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN CLAY...GREENE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. SWC
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:41 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
ARZ009-018-062115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 341 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...CLAY AND GREENE COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER KNOBEL AT 340 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN CLAY AND GREENE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY OF CORNING... SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. SWC
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 3:15 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
ARZ009-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 415 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...CLAY COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF HICKORIA AT 415 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS OVER 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN CLAY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF CORNING...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. SWC
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flood and Hail in Georgia, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Hampshire, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, August 6 to 7, 2003
- Wildfire in Hawaii, August 6, 2003
- Wildfire in Montana, August 6 to 24, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 6, 2003
- Flood in Ohio, August 6, 2003
- Tornado in North Carolina, August 6, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Maine, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding in New York, August 6, 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: 5377156.