Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- June 10, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, 5 mi SE of Murfreesboro
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.017, -93.617
Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 10, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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 Jun 10, 2:43 PM CST, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:43 PM CST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 343 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003 A COLD FRONT EXTENDS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA. THIS FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE INTO MISSOURI TONIGHT. ABUNDANT CLOUDINESS IS NOTED ON THE SATELLITE IMAGES ACROSS ARKANSAS. KLZK RADAR NOTES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN OKLAHOMA MOVING INTO WEST AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN MCS TONIGHT ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND MOVING INTO MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS LATE TONIGHT. THE ETA HAS THE SYSTEM A LITTLE WEAKER THAN THE GFS. WILL GO WITH A BLEND OF GFS AND ETA. THE UPPER LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. AN UPPER TROUGH WILL HANG AROUND THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEKEND. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO ARKANSAS SATURDAY MORNING BUT NOT MOVE THROUGH THE STATE UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BE A SLOW MOVING FRONT WITH SEVERAL SHORT WAVES MOVING ALONG IT. THEREFORE...HEALTHY AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE WEEKEND. NEARLY AN INCH OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED IN SOME LOCATIONS TONIGHT...MAINLY NORTH AND CENTRAL SECTIONS. HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING WARMTH AND HUMIDITY UP FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. LOWS WILL GENERALLY BE AROUND 70 DEGREES TO THE UPPER 80S OR LOWER 90S. HRO 68 83 66 83 / 80 80 40 50 LIT 72 87 72 87 / 60 60 50 60 HOT 73 86 72 87 / 60 60 50 60 PBF 73 87 72 87 / 40 40 50 70 .LZK...NONE. 51
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 4:00 AM CST, 16 hours before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-111000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WARM FRONT ALONG THE GULF COAST WILL HEAD NORTH TODAY...SPREADING WARMER...MORE HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS ARKANSAS. NORTH OF THE FRONT...A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING MAINLY NORTH OF LITTLE ROCK. MEANWHILE...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST TONIGHT. THE FRONT WILL UTILIZE AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY IN THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE STATE. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE STATE TONIGHT WILL STALL NEAR THE ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI BORDER WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. ON FRIDAY...THE FRONT WILL LIFT TO THE NORTH...WITH A STORM SYSTEM DRAGGING YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT TOWARD THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND. THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL REMAIN UNSETTLED THROUGH AT LEAST SUNDAY...WITH CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING. SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAINLY FROM NORTHERN INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT...WITH SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF ARKANSAS. 46
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:58 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
- Tornado in Illinois, June 10, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 10, 2003
- High Wind in Iowa, June 10, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 10, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 10, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 10, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 10, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 10, 2003
- Tornado in Illinois, June 10, 2003
- Hail in Montana, June 10, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 10, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 10, 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: 5362844.