1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 22, 9:00 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1000 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004 .DISCUSSION... UPDATE TO CANCEL TORNADO WATCH AND FOR ISSUE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN CONCERNS NOW...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN LATER TONIGHT. ALONG AND NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS WILL BE THE AREA OF CONVECTION OVERNIGHT. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 AM CDT FRIDAY FOR ZONES ARZ003>007...ARZ012>016...ARZ021>025... ARZ030>034 ...ARZ037>039...ARZ043>047. && 58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 825 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-231000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 825 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE NORTHERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT. LOW PRESSURE ALOFT WILL AFFECT ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT. THE STORM SYSTEM WILL INTERACT WITH A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THURSDAY EVENING...MAINLY OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS. SEVERE STORMS WILL OCCUR OVER THE NORTH WITH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THE MAIN THREATS OVER THE NORTH WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS...THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS. AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES...THE SEVERE WEATHER EVENT WILL GRADUALLY EVOLVE INTO MORE OF A HEAVY RAIN EVENT. PRECIPITATION WILL TEND TO FOCUS ALONG THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE COMMON...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP TONIGHT WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH FRIDAY MORNING. THERE WILL BE A LULL FRIDAY AFTERNOON...WITH MORE STORMS IN THE FORECAST FRIDAY NIGHT. THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL NOT CHANGE THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN STALLED ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS. GIVEN THIS...STORMS THAT DEVELOP THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK WILL BE MOST LIKELY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY...WITH AREAS OF HEAVY TO EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. FLASH FLOODING MAY OCCUR IN SOME AREAS. THE PATTERN WILL FINALLY CHANGE THIS WEEKEND. A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE REGION FROM THE WEST SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...WITH COOLER AND DRIER AIR EXPECTED TO FOLLOW BY MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN ARKANSAS. 22
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1041 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1037 PM HAIL ZION 36.08N 91.77W
04/22/2004 0.88 INCH IZARD AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
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22PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1046 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1030 PM HAIL MOUNT PLEASANT 35.98N 91.78W
04/22/2004 1.00 INCH IZARD AR EMERGENCY MNGR
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22PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1054 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1030 PM HAIL OARK 35.68N 93.58W
04/22/2004 1.75 INCH JOHNSON AR EMERGENCY MNGR
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22PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1102 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1055 PM FLASH FLOOD HARRISON 36.24N 93.12W
04/22/2004 BOONE AR BROADCAST MEDIA
REPORTS OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IN THE HARRISON AREA AND
ALSO PARTS OF SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY. SOME FLOODING
REPORTED ON U.S. HIGHWAY 65 SOUTH OF HARRISON.
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22PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1119 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1055 PM HAIL MOUNTAIN HOME 36.34N 92.38W
04/22/2004 1.25 INCH BAXTER AR BROADCAST MEDIA
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22PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1249 AM CDT FRI APR 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1245 AM HAIL GUION 35.93N 91.94W
04/23/2004 0.75 INCH IZARD AR EMERGENCY MNGR
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22The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:31 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado was spawned in northern Van Buren County roughly 1 to 2 miles southeast of Crabtree. The tornado did little more than skirt some tree tops before dissipating about a mile northwest of Clinton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 2004Warnings in Arkansas, April 2004
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: 5392014.