Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 11, 2003
Start: 2003-06-11T20:10
End: 2003-06-11T20:10
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 8:00 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 8:00 PM CST, 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
900 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

WILL BE UPDATING THE 400 PM ZONES TO GROUP THE S CENTRAL AR
AND N CENTRAL LA ZONES TOGETHER AND INCREASE THE CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH THE MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL
AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY SEVERE. FOR THE WESTERN
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY WARNING/FORECAST AREA WILL RAISE THE
TEMPERATURES BY ONE CATEGORY BUT WILL NOT VARY THAT BY MUCH...AS
ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE LATE
TONIGHT. WITH RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE PASSAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS...
READINGS COULD BE TRICKY...LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY MORNING.
WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF SOME THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY SEVERE
AND HEAVY RAINFALL IN THOSE NOT MENTIONED.

UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL BE MOVING OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS LATE
TONIGHT AND INTO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS EARLY THURSDAY.

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.SHV...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 11:00 AM CST, 9 hours 10 minutes before

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-121059-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE FOUR
STATES REGION BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...BUT ESPECIALLY
NORTH OF I 30.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATER
IN THE EVENING. A SIMILAR SCENARIO TO LAST NIGHT COULD UNFOLD
WHERE DAMAGING WIND OCCURRED AT A FEW LOCATIONS. A FEW STRONG
STORMS COULD DEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING
AS WELL...WHERE DAYTIME HEATING INTERACTS WITH A HUMID AND UNSTABLE
AIRMASS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE FOUR
STATES REGION THURSDAY AND AGAIN FRIDAY. HUMID AND UNSTABLE
CONDITIONS...COMBINED WITH UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES...WILL KEEP A
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY
BECOME SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS...MAY POSSIBLY BE NEEDED...MAINLY TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 6:28 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
728 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0419 PM    RUSTON                    LA   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/11/03   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY BROADCAST
                                          MEDIA.

0510 PM    6 NE RUSTON               LA   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/11/03   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

0610 PM    FARMERVILLE               LA   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/11/03   UNION                          REPORTED BY BROADCAST
                                          MEDIA NEAR LAKE DARBONNE.

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The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:09 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Sevier

When: June 11, 8:10 PM CST
Where: Sevier County, Provo
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.033, -94.100

Numerous trees and power lines down.

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

More

Every storm in Arkansas in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, June 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: 5364572.