Hail, Little River
- When
- May 1, 8:32 PM CST
- Where
- Little River County, 2 mi W of Cross Rds
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.833, -94.417
Hail in Arkansas, May 1, 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 May 1, 8:00 PM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 8:00 PM CST, 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 900 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE MAIN ACTIVITY IS WITH THE SUPERCELL OVER MCCURTAIN/SEVIER COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST. MORE DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THIS SUPERCELL. EARLY REPORTS INDICATE A TORNADO HIT THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF BROKEN BOW. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD GRADUALLY WEAKEN OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. HOWEVER...MORE ACTIVITY MIGHT FORM LATER TONIGHT ALONG THE COLD FRONT AND PUSH INTO THE AREA. WILL ONLY MAKE A FEW TWEAKS TO THE CURRENT FORECAST...AND ADD THE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ACROSS THE NORTH. UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. 22 .SHV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 11:00 AM CST, 9 hours 32 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>167-021700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS FRONT...COMBINED WITH NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM EARLIER CONVECTION ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA...WILL HELP TO GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE FOUR STATE REGION. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL BE ACROSS THE PINEY WOODS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... WITH A THUNDERSTORM THREAT FOR LATER THIS EVENING AND LATE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA. WITH THE AID OF AFTERNOON HEATING...ENOUGH INSTABILITY WILL EXIST THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE ACROSS THESE AREAS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... ON FRIDAY THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE SOUTHWARD INTO THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR...AND THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL EFFECT NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA. HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 1, 6:33 PM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
733 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM PICKENS OK 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/01/03 MCCURTAIN REPORTED BY THE GENERAL
PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 1, 7:36 PM CST, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
836 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM BROKEN BOW OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/01/03 MCCURTAIN REPORTED BY FIRE
DEPARTMENT.The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 162 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:32 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
- Heavy Rain in California, May 1 to 15, 2003
- Tornado in Oklahoma, May 1, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 1, 2003
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Oklahoma, May 1, 2003
- Flood in Alaska, May 1 to 4, 2003
- Tornado in Arkansas, May 1, 2003
- Tornado in Arkansas, May 1, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, May 1, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 1, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 1, 2003
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in New York, May 1, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 1 to 2, 2003
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, May 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: 5354497.