Hail, Little River
- When
- March 12, 1:47 PM CST
- Where
- Little River County, Ashdown
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.667, -94.133
Hail in Arkansas, March 12, 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
- 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 Mar 12, 10:15 AM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 10:15 AM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1015 AM CST WED MAR 12 2003 CURRENT KSHV RADAR INDICATES A FEW SHOWERS DEVELOPING ACROSS EAST TEXAS...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20...ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRACKING ALONG THE GULF COAST. WILL ADD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...LOW CHANCE EXTREME SOUTH...THEN SLIGHT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT EXTREME NORTHEAST. MORNINGS SOUNDING STILL SHOWS A DECENT CAP...AND WITH THE ATMOSPHERE DRYING OUT ABOVE 800 MB...WHICH WILL HELP LIMIT COVERAGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WILL MONITOR TEMPERATURES AND MIGHT LOWER A FEW AREAS DUE TO THE CLOUD COVER. 22 .SHV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 12:00 PM CST, 1 hour 47 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>167-131200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ALONG THE GULF COAST...WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. LATER TONIGHT...ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS...MAY MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND ADJACENT AREAS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE...BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. IF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DO OCCUR...THE MAIN THREAT WOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:48 UTC.
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
- High Wind in Washington, March 12 to 13, 2003
- Wildfire and High Wind in Alaska, March 12 to 14, 2003
- Flooding in Montana, March 12 to 13, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, March 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, March 12 to 13, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, March 12 to 13, 2003
- Hail in Missouri, March 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, March 12, 2003
- High Wind in Alaska, March 12 to 13, 2003
- Hail in Louisiana, March 12, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, March 12, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, March 12, 2003
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, March 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: 5347009.