Thunderstorm Wind, Lonoke
- When
- August 4, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lonoke County, Ward
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.033, -91.967
Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree along Highway 67/167 near Ward.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 2004
1 thunderstorm wind, 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
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- 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 8:10 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 8:10 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 910 PM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 LATEST SURFACE DATA INDICATES COLD FRONT ROUGHLY FROM SOUTH OF CGI AND POF...TO NEAR FLP...AND SOUTH OF SLG. CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY...NEAR INTERSECTION OF DEVELOPING SURFACE LOW AND H5 SHORTWAVE. TAKING A LOOK AT THE 00Z SOUNDING DATA...ONLY A VERY SMALL CAP AT AROUND 700 MB. UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT HAS INCREASED NORTH OF THE FRONT...AS EVIDENCED BY 50KT JET AT SGF. ALSO...SGF RADAR INDICATES SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION ATTEMPTING TO FORM BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. EARLIER TONIGHT...ISOLATED STRONG CELLS FORMED OVER TWO OF OUR NORTHEASTERN MOST COUNTIES. ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH ONE CELL OVER EASTERN FULTON COUNTY. NOW THAT HEATING OF THE DAY HAS DIED OFF...STORMS NOT NEARLY AS IMPRESSIVE. AS FAR AS THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...WHILE AN ISOLATED ONE IS NOT TOTALLY OUT OF THE QUESTION...FEEL THAT THE BEST POTENTIAL WILL BE EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...AS SURFACE LOW MOVES NORTHEAST ALONG THE FRONT AND INTERACTS WITH THE UPPER SYSTEM. NOW FOR UPDATES TO THE GOING FORECAST... FOR THE MOST PART... TEMPERATURES SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM FALLING TO FORECASTED MINS TONIGHT. THE ONLY AREA THIS MAY BE IN JEOPARDY WOULD BE THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST...WHERE THE FRONT WILL NOT REACH UNTIL AROUND SUNRISE. HAVE ADJUSTED TEMPERATURES IN THIS AREA UP A DEGREE OR TWO. WILL ALSO LEAVE SCATTERED POPS IN AREA WIDE...WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES IN THE EAST. HAVE ALSO ADJUSTED FORECASTED TEMPERATURES AND DEWPOINTS TO BETTER ACCOUNT FOR ONGOING SENSIBLE WEATHER TRENDS. UPDATE WILL BE OUT BY 930 PM. .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. 57
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 6:33 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 733 PM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-051000- BAXTER-BOONE-CLEBURNE-CONWAY-FAULKNER-FULTON-INDEPENDENCE-IZARD- JACKSON-JOHNSON-LOGAN-MARION-NEWTON-POPE-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE- VAN BUREN-WHITE-WOODRUFF- 733 PM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH-CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS GENERALLY NORTH OF A BOONEVILLE...RUSSELLVILLE... CONWAY TO AUGUSTA LINE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION TONIGHT IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A FEW STORMS WILL REACH SEVERE LEVELS...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE STORMS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. ARZ037>047-052>057-062>069-051000- ARKANSAS-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEVELAND-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-GARLAND- GRANT-HOT SPRING-JEFFERSON-LINCOLN-LONOKE-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-OUACHITA- PERRY-PIKE-POLK-PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-YELL- 733 PM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ARKANSAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A WALDRON...TO LITTLE ROCK TO BRINKLEY LINE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. HOWEVER...THE CHANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEAR LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE STORMS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. 51
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:38 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
738 PM CDT WED AUG 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0642 PM HAIL 10 N CHEROKEE VILLAGE 36.45N 91.53W
08/04/2004 1.00 INCH FULTON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
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57The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:17 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind and Strong Wind in Ohio, August 4, 2004
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, August 4, 2004
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2004
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 4, 2004
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 4 to 5, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 4, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 4, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 4, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 4, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 4, 2004
More
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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: 5418186.