Hail, Union
- When
- June 11, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, Farmerville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 32.767, -92.400
Hail in Louisiana, June 11, 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 Jun 11, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003 ONGOING AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND TO SE NATCHITOCHES TO MLU PERSISTENT SINCE EARLY MORNING AND PERHAPS BUILDING SLIGHTLY WESTWARD. SCATTERED POPS OBVIOUSLY NEEDED TONIGHT THOSE SECTIONS. HOWEVER...AS NOSE OF SUBTROPICAL JET ENTERING SW TX THIS AFTERNOON...SOME COOLING MID LEVEL TEMPS AND STRONG UPPER LEVEL DIRECTIONAL DIVERGENCE FURTHER NORTH WILL BE OF GREATER CONCERN OVERNIGHT. WILL LEAVE CHANCE CATEGORY...ALTHOUGH POSSIBLE MCS DEVELOPMENT COULD PROVIDE GREATER COVERAGE WHEN TIME COMES. SEVERE THREAT SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT...WITH MOSTLY MARGINAL WIND DAMAGE VERIFIED. HOWEVER...THE DIVERGENCE...ALONG WITH MID LEVEL WINDS UNDER 30 KNOTS...COULD CREATE A HEAVY RAIN SITUATION. WILL MENTION SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN NW SECTIONS. SURFACE LOW REDEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL LOCK IN SYNOPTIC PATTERN THRU FRIDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...HIGH TEMPS AROUND 90 AND LOWS IN 70S...SOUTH WINDS WILL BE RULE. ALTHOUGH WINDS REACHED CAUTION CRITERIA TODAY...GRADIENT APPEARS TO RELAX JUST ENOUGH ON THURSDAY TO KEEP 10 TO 15 MPH. AS UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD DURING WEEKEND...INCREASING NW FLOW BRING IN UPPER LOW FROM NORTH. IF THIS CUTS OFF ON TOP OF AREA...ANOTHER INTERESTING WEEK COULD BE IN STORE. VII SHV 73/90/73/91 4432 MLU 73/90/72/91 4432 TXK 72/88/72/89 5443 TYR 73/92/74/93 4342 LFK 75/92/74/93 3332 .SHV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 11:00 AM CST, 6 hours 10 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>167-121059- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE FOUR STATES REGION BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...BUT ESPECIALLY NORTH OF I 30. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATER IN THE EVENING. A SIMILAR SCENARIO TO LAST NIGHT COULD UNFOLD WHERE DAMAGING WIND OCCURRED AT A FEW LOCATIONS. A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD DEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AS WELL...WHERE DAYTIME HEATING INTERACTS WITH A HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE FOUR STATES REGION THURSDAY AND AGAIN FRIDAY. HUMID AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS...COMBINED WITH UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES...WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...MAY POSSIBLY BE NEEDED...MAINLY TONIGHT.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:11 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 11, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 11, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, June 11, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 11, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 11 to 12, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Mississippi, June 11, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 11, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 11 to 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 11, 2003
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 11, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 11, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 11, 2003
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, 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: 5365199.