Hail in Arkansas, March 25, 2003

Name: Hail in Arkansas, March 25, 2003
Start: 2003-03-25T14:30
End: 2003-03-25T14:30
Location: Arkansas

March 25, 2003 · NWS TSA · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 25, 11:20 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 11:20 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA
1120 AM CST TUE MAR 25 2003

...UPDATE FOR STORM SCALE TRENDS...

LINE OF CONVECTION MOVING CURRENTLY FROM SOUTH COFFEYVILLE TO HOMINY
IS LOCATED JUST AHEAD OF 700MB TROUGH PER PROFILER DATA.  LATEST RUC
SHOWS LIMITED ELEVATED INSTABILITY AHEAD OF THIS BAND HOWEVER DEEP
LAYER SHEER WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT SUSTAINED UPDRAFTS.  PEA SIZE
HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER ELEMENTS HOWEVER RADAR
TRENDS INDICATE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS WILL PERSIST.

FORECAST ID= 07

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-261200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
100 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
AREA 1...SOUTH AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 44

PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS...100

IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP...
     PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS...30
     TIME OF INITIAL EVENT...700 PM
     PROBABILITY OF A TORNADO / F2 OR GREATER TORNADO...0/0
     PROBABILITY OF GOLFBALL HAIL OR LARGER...5
     PROBABILITY OF 73 MPH WIND OR GREATER... LESS THAN 5

GIVEN PROBABILITIES REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL FOR AN OCCURRENCE
ANYWHERE IN THE DEFINED AREA.

DISCUSSION...
A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM FAR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INTO NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING
NORTH OF THIS BOUNDARY.  MARGINAL ELEVATED INSTABILITY AND AN
APPROACHING MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE TO AID THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THE SURFACE COLD FRONT.  DEEP
LAYER SHEER WILL ALSO BE FAVORABLE FOR SUSTAINED UPDRAFTS HOWEVER
LIMITED INSTABILITY WILL KEEP THE SEVERE THREAT LIMITED.  LOW WET
BULB ZERO HEIGHTS AND THE ELEVATED NATURE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
MAINTAIN HAIL AS THE PRIMARY THREAT.

EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA HAS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING
SURFACE BASED THUNDERSTORMS AS AN AREA OF WEAK LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS
ALONG THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT.  THE AIRMASS ACROSS THIS REGION IS
MUCH MORE UNSTABLE HOWEVER A STRONG CAPPING INVERSION IS IN PLACE AND
WILL LIKELY INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT UNTIL AFTER THE COLD
FRONTAL PASSAGE.  SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE COLD
FRONT THEY WOULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE.
THE THREAT FOR SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER WILL QUICKLY DIMINISH
AFTER THE COLD FRONT HAS PASSED.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO END ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA THIS
EVENING WITH SKIES CLEARING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY
A STRONGER STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND
FRIDAY BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN MAY BE LIMITED SO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT
WILL BE MARGINAL.

.SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY SOUTH AND EAST OF
INTERSTATE 44.

RELATED GRAPHICAL INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT...
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 25, 11:30 AM CST, 3 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1130 AM CST TUE MAR 25 2003

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

0341 AM    FORAKER                   OK   .88 INCH HAIL
03/25/03   OSAGE                          REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER

0300 AM    1 W BIGCABIN              OK   NON TSTM WIND DAMAGE
03/25/03   CRAIG                          ROOF DAMAGE AND LARGE                                     DAMAGE TO BARN AND LARGE
                                          TREE DOWN...REPORTED BY
                                          BARTLESVILLE EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Madison

When: March 25, 2:30 PM CST
Where: Madison County, Pettigrew
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: POST OFFICE
Coordinates: 35.817, -93.650

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

Every storm in Arkansas in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5346074.