Hail, Van Buren
- When
- June 12, 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Van Buren County, 2 mi NE of Damascus
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.400, -92.383
Hail in Arkansas, June 12, 2004
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 2:10 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:10 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED LONG TERM DAYS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 310 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT INTERESTING AFTERNOON WITH WELL DEFINED BOUNDARY DROPPING SOUTH OUT OF MISSOURI AND INTERACTING WITH SYSTEM ALOFT FROM WEST. SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS POPPED UP NORTH OF LITTLE ROCK...AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. OVERNIGHT...WILL QUIET DOWN WITH PATCHY FOG FORMING MAINLY IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. WOULD THINK THAT LOW CLOUDS WOULD START INCREASING FROM THE SOUTHWEST AS CAP STRENGTHENS. ANOTHER SYSTEM ALOFT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS SUNDAY AFTERNOON. BOUNDARY MAY NOT BE THERE THIS TIME...AND FAIRLY CAPPED ENVIRONMENT. GIVEN THIS...HAVE SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY...AND THIS WILL MAINLY BE IN THE NORTH AND WEST. LOOKING AHEAD...SUMMERLIKE PATTERN WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH WARM/HUMID CONDITIONS AND WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. COLD FRONT WILL BEGIN APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH BY TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY. && .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FRONT WILL MOVE INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTH TO BEGIN THE EXTENDED PERIOD. AS PREVIOUS DATA HAS SHOWN...FRONT WILL STALL SOMEWHERE IN THE STATE AND WILL MEANDER FOR AWHILE BEFORE WASHING OUT. YET ANOTHER FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH BY NEXT WEEKEND...AND WILL LIKELY FOLLOW SUIT. WILL BE MORE CLOUDS...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST. SOMEWHAT CONCERNED ABOUT HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL...WITH STORMS FOCUSING ALONG STALLED FRONTS. WILL MONITOR THE SITUATION AS TIME NEARS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 73 91 72 90 / 20 20 20 20 HARRISON AR 68 88 67 86 / 30 20 20 30 HOT SPRINGS AR 72 91 72 90 / 20 20 20 20 PINE BLUFF AR 73 92 73 91 / 20 20 20 20 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 68 88 68 86 / 30 20 20 30 MONTICELLO AR 73 92 73 91 / 20 20 20 20 SEARCY AR 72 91 72 90 / 30 20 20 20 MOUNT IDA AR 72 91 70 90 / 20 20 20 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 71 91 68 88 / 30 20 20 20 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 46
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 11:03 AM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1203 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-131000- 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- 1203 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL... BUT ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS COULD OCCUR AS WELL. IN ADDITION... THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HIGH HUMIDITY AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL KEEP SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AROUND THE AREA DUE TO AFTERNOON HEATING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 28
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
230 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0210 PM HAIL DESHA 35.73N 91.68W
06/12/2004 0.75 INCH INDEPENDENCE AR TRAINED SPOTTER
40 MPH WIND GUSTS
&&
109Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
300 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0255 PM HAIL HECTOR 35.47N 92.98W
06/12/2004 0.75 INCH POPE AR PUBLIC
&&
109The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:17 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 Kansas, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 12, 2004
- Hail in Kansas, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, June 12, 2004
- Flooding in West Virginia, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 12, 2004
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 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: 5407611.