Hail, Franklin
- When
- May 5, 2:04 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, Mt Vernon
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 33.183, -95.233
Hail in Texas, May 5, 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 5, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1100 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003 UPDATED ZONES ALREADY SENT TO HEADLINE TORNADO WATCH ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. UPPED POPS SLIGHTLY TO MATCH ONGOING WEATHER. 13 .SHV...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM...ARZ050-051-059>061-070> 073-LAZ001>006-012>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 11:00 AM CST, 3 hours 4 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>167-061200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. VERY STRONG WINDS ALOFT COMBINED WITH SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR WILL RESULT IN SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY BECOMING TORNADIC. ISOLATED TORNADOES THAT FORM LATER THIS AFTERNOON COULD BE SIGNIFICANT IN STRENGTH AND LONG LIVED AS MID AND UPPER LEVEL ATMOSPHERIC WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN STRONG THROUGH TONIGHT. THIS TORNADO AND HAIL THREAT WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING AND EARLY OVERNIGHT HOURS BEFORE DIMINISHING LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE DAY TUESDAY...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR AS A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 5, 10:01 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1101 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1022 AM WINNSBORO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/03 WOOD REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
1027 AM LEESBURG TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/03 CAMP REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER.Local storm report, May 5, 10:16 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1116 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1025 AM SCOGGINS TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/03 FRANKLIN REPORTED BY GENERAL
PUBLIC.Special weather statement, May 5, 11:31 AM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-012>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097- 108>112-124>126-136>138-052100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1231 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003 ...TORNADO WATCH ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20... A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM...FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FOUR STATE AREA. THE WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20...AND INCLUDES THE MONROE AREA...SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY...TEXARKANA...TYLER AND LONGVIEW...AND NASHVILLE ARKANSAS...AND IDABEL OKLAHOMA. THE FIRST ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON... AND MOVE EAST INTO ARKANSAS...OR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. RESIDENTS OF THE FOUR STATE AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE WEATHER WARNINGS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. 03
Local storm report, May 5, 1:28 PM CST, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
228 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1120 AM 4 S PITTSBURG TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/03 CAMP REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERS
1130 AM DANGERFIELD TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/03 MORRIS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
03The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:01 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Georgia, May 5 to 11, 2003
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 5, 2003
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, May 5 to 6, 2003
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 5, 2003
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 5 to 6, 2003
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 5 to 6, 2003
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, May 5, 2003
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 5, 2003
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 5 to 6, 2003
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 5, 2003
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 5, 2003
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 5, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, 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: 5353885.