Hail, Van Buren
- When
- March 25, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Van Buren County, Dennard
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.750, -92.517
Hail in Arkansas, March 25, 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 25, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 THE COLD FRONT HAS BEEN SLOWER THAN EXPECTED TODAY. THIS HAS GIVEN A CHANCE TO RECOVER THE DEW POINTS INTO THE 60S IN THE FORM OF A WEDGE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. VERTICAL VELOCITIES ARE FAVORABLE FOR LIFT AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT IN CONJUNCTION WITH DAYTIME HEATING. EVEN WITH THE SLOWING DOWN OF THE FRONT ACROSS THE OZARKS TODAY...ONCE ON THE SOUTHEAST EAST PART OF THE STATE...THE FRONT SHOULD PICK UP SPEED AND EXIT THE STATE ON TIME TO LEAVE A DRY FORECAST FROM 12Z ON WEDNESDAY UNTIL THE NEXT COLD FRONT APPROACHES FOR THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL FOR WEDNESDAY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...THEN THEY WILL RECOVER NICELY FOR THURSDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS STILL A POSSIBILITY WITH THE NEXT FRONT...AND IT BEARS CONTINUED WATCHING. FCSTID = 32 HRO 39 65 44 72 / 50 0 0 0 LIT 46 67 47 75 / 50 0 0 0 HOT 46 67 47 76 / 50 0 0 0 PBF 47 68 48 76 / 50 0 0 0 .LZK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 4:43 AM CST, 10 hours 57 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-261100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 443 AM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT ALLOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT. THE FRONT WILL MOVE NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WILL BE DRY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL BEAR DOWN ON THE REGION FRIDAY FOR ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE ON FRIDAY. AGAIN THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO BE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON FRIDAY. 51
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:39 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
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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: 5347566.