Hail, Carter
- When
- March 25, 10:48 AM CST to 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Carter County, Fremont
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.950, -91.167
Hail in Missouri, 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 25, 3:25 AM CST, 7 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 3:25 AM CST, 7 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 325 AM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE REMAINS PCPN TIMING W/FROPA. SURFACE FRONT FM NCNTL IN-CNTL MO-NCNTL OK AT 09Z. SAT IR PICS AND UPSTREAM 88D MOSAIC SHOWS SCT CONVECTION ALONG/AHEAD OF LINE...PARTICULARLY IN THE SRN PLAINS. SWODY1 EXPANDS THIS MORE UNSTABLE SRN AIR W/SLGT RISK FOR SRN PAH FA TODAY...GENERAL RISK ELSEWHERE. MODELS STILL TIME FROPA THRU LATE THIS PM/EARLY THIS EVENING AND THAT IS WHEN ATMOS WL BE MOST UNSTABLE. WL GO AOA MOS POPS W/CATEGORICAL NOS S AND E TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT...TAPERING TO CHC RW- N AND W BY EARLY TONIGHT. MODELS NOW PUSH DRIER AIR IN AFT 09Z SO WL ELIMINATE SAT AM MENTION. REMAINDER OF FORECAST IS ABOUT SAME SAVE FOR A TAD WARMER MID RANGE...AHEAD OF NEXT PCPN CHANCE WHICH IS STILL POISED FOR FRI. THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM COULD BE POTENT TOO...AND MODELS HAVE SHOWN GOOD CONSISTENCY ON ITS TIMING. AS A RESULT TOYED W/LKLY POPS BUT WITH IT STILL IN THE TIME RANGE THAT ITS IN WELL LEAVE IT AT HIGH CHC FOR ONE MORE RUN...WITH BEST CHANCE BEING FRI PM-EARLY FRI NIGHT. AFTER THAT THE WEEKEND STILL LOOKS COOLER AND DRIER W/LTL CHANGE SAVE FOR MINOR TWEEKING GIVEN NEWEST NOS. .PAH...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 5:00 AM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-261100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 500 AM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. IT WILL BRING WITH IT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI TO MADISONVILLE KENTUCKY. THIS INCLUDES SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY...AND EXTREME SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY...WHICH WILL BRING THE NEXT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MAINTAIN ALERT STATUS FOR POSSIBLE REQUEST FOR ACTIVATION TODAY AND AGAIN ON FRIDAY.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 199 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:46 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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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: 5345640.