Thunderstorm Wind, Sharp
- When
- June 12, 12:40 PM CST
- Where
- Sharp County, Poughkeepsie
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- POST OFFICE
- Coordinates
- 36.083, -91.483
Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 12, 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
- 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, 8:15 AM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 8:15 AM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 915 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS POPPING UP THIS MORNING FROM SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. WOULD FULLY EXPECT OUTFLOW FROM STORMS IN MISSOURI TO TRIGGER HIT AND MISS SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. GIVEN THIS...WENT WITH 30/40 PERCENT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN ABOUT NORTHWEST TWO THIRDS OF STATE...WITH HIGHEST CHANCES TOWARD NORTHWEST COUNTIES. ONLY 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN THE SOUTHEAST. IN MOST CASES...MENTIONED THAT THUNDER WOULD BE ISOLATED GIVEN SOME CAPPING...AND THE FACT THAT THUNDER HAS HAD DIFFICULTY DEVELOPING LATELY. (46) && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 46
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 11:03 AM CST, 1 hour 37 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
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 156 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:40 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
- 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: 5407505.