Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 8, 2004

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 8, 2004
Start: 2004-07-08T20:34
End: 2004-07-08T20:40
Location: Arkansas

July 8, 2004 · NWS LZK · 2 events in 1 county or zone

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Jul 8, 7:10 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 7:10 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
810 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004

.DISCUSSION...
UPDATED FORECAST TO PUT HIGHER CHANCES FOR RAIN IN MOST
AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE STATE. UPPED
RAINFALL AMOUNTS AS WELL.

MCS CONTINUES TO HEAD TOWARD CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS EVENING FROM THE
NORTHWEST. NOTICE THAT OUTFLOW STARTING TO OUTRUN LINE OF
STORMS...SO WOULD EXPECT SOME WEAKENING TO OCCUR. THIS ALONG WITH
WEAK WINDS ALOFT WOULD SUPPORT ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER.

PRECIPITATION SHOULD PRETTY MUCH FALL APART AFTER MIDNIGHT. CLOUDS
WILL ALSO THIN OUT...WITH PATCHY FOG FORMING.

THANKS TO SPC FOR COORDINATION. (46)
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 2:25 PM CST, 6 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
325 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091000-
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-
325 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A SYSTEM ALOFT WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI FROM KANSAS EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING...WITH THE LINE EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO
NORTHERN AND PERHAPS CENTRAL ARKANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG TO DAMAGING
WINDS...WITH HAIL IN SOME AREAS. THIS WOULD INCLUDE AREAS NORTH AND
WEST OF MENA...CONWAY AND HARDY.

ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE POPPING UP THROUGH THIS EVENING. WITH A SLOW MOVEMENT AND A
MOIST ATMOSPHERE...THE STORMS WILL TEND TO PRODUCE HEAVY
RAINFALL...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE IN A FEW SPOTS.

OVERNIGHT...ALL PRECIPITATION SHOULD DISSIPATE BY MIDNIGHT OR
SO...WITH PATCHY FOG DEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE FROM TEXAS INTO NORTHERN AND WESTERN
ARKANSAS WILL BRING SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY.

OTHERWISE...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ALOFT THIS WEEKEND AND INTO
NEXT WEEK...WITH HOT AND MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS IN THE FORECAST.
ONLY ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.

WHILE STORMS WILL BE ISOLATED...THEY MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS.
THE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED.

THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES FROM THE PLAINS...WHICH HAVE AFFECTED MUCH OF
ARKANSAS RECENTLY...WILL TEND TO MOVE NORTH OF THE REGION WITH HIGH
PRESSURE IN PLACE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING IN NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS A LINE OF STORMS ARRIVES FROM MISSOURI.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 4:27 PM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
527 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     HAIL             MCRAE                   35.11N 91.82W
07/08/2004  0.75 INCH        WHITE              AR   PUBLIC

&&

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:11 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
711 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0655 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CLARKSVILLE             35.46N 93.47W
07/08/2004                   JOHNSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN CLARKSVILLE

&&

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:46 PM CST, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
846 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0635 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 NW CLARKSVILLE        35.51N 93.54W
07/08/2004                   JOHNSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ON HWY 103

0640 PM     HAIL             3 W CLARKSVILLE         35.46N 93.53W
07/08/2004  0.75 INCH        JOHNSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0645 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 W CLARKSVILLE         35.46N 93.56W
07/08/2004                   JOHNSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ON HWY 352

0730 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LONDON                  35.33N 93.25W
07/08/2004                   POPE               AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN LONDON

0750 PM     TSTM WND DMG     DANVILLE                35.05N 93.39W
07/08/2004                   YELL               AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN DANVILLE

0800 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BLUFFTON                34.90N 93.60W
07/08/2004                   YELL               AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN BLUFFTON

&&

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The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:35 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, White

When: July 8, 8:34 PM CST
Where: White County, 6 mi W of Beebe
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.067, -92.000

Thunderstorm Wind, White

When: July 8, 8:40 PM CST
Where: White County, West Pt
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 35.200, -91.617

Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, July 2004

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: 5416025, 5416026.