Hail, Lawrence
- When
- June 13, 7:57 PM CST to 8:05 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence County, Lynn
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Property damage
- $50
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -91.250
Hail in Arkansas, June 13, 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
- $50
- 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 Jun 13, 7:15 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 7:15 PM CST, 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 815 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 KNQA 88D SHOWS A BROKEN LINE OF CONVECTION EXTENDING AFROM THE BOOTHEEL THROUGH EXTREME NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING. THIS LINE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COOL FRONT AS FURTHER SUPPORTED BY 01Z SFC OBS INDICATING A WIND SHIFT TO THE NW. MEANWHILE...A BATCH OF SHRA/TS OVER CENTRAL MS CONTINUES TO MOVE TOWARD THE NE. IN TONIGHTS UPDATE...WILL UP POPS ACROSS NE MS AND WORD AS NUMEROUS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED WORDING AND 30 OR 40 POPS SHOULD SUFFICE. WILL REMOVE WORDING OF SVR FOR TONIGHT. CONVECTION IS ENCOUNTERING A REGION OF LIMITED INSTABILITY AS INDICATED BY CAPES OF AROUND 1000J/KG AND WEAK MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES. WHILE CANT TOTALLY RULE OUT AN ISOLATED MARGINALLY SVR CELL W/ SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...NOT EXPECTING A WIDE SPREAD EVENT AT THIS TIME. TEMPS ASPECT OF THE FCST LOOKS REASONABLE. .MEG...NONE. VALLE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 10:28 AM CST, 9 hours 29 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>092-141000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1128 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE MID-SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT FROM THE NORTH COMBINED WITH AMPLE DAYTIME HEATING WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH FORCING AND INSTABILITY FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERAL OF THE STORMS WILL BE STRONG AND A FEW COULD BE SEVERE. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM ABOUT 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND 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. 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 in New York, June 13 to 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 13, 2003
- Lightning Strikes in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 13, 2003
- Flooding in Ohio, June 13 to 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2003
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5370030.