Name: Hail in Arkansas, June 2, 2004
Start: 2004-06-02T14:42
End: 2004-06-02T14:45
Location: Arkansas

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 happened

The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.

Hail to the size of golfballs fell in the Bellefonte area. The hail accumulated on the ground, and was at least a couple of inches deep. Numerous vehicles were damaged by the hail, with motorists driving off of Highway 65 to find protection under metal roofs at gas stations and at a vacant convenience store.

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 2, 11:47 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 11:47 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1247 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

CONVECTION APPROACHING NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE CWA IS INCREASING
IN COVERAGE. SHEAR AND INSTABILITY PROFILES SUPPORT ORGANIZED SEVERE
STORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA. FORECASTS ARE UPDATED TO
REFLECT THESE TRENDS.

&&

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

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 11:50 AM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1250 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-031000-
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-
1250 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT...LOCATED IN EXTREME NORTHERN
ARKANSAS...WILL MOVE SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS.
WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR IS PRESENT ACROSS THE NATURAL STATE...AND THIS
WILL INTERACT WITH THE COOL AIR BEHIND THE FRONT. SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP CLOSE TO THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...WITH
SEVERE STORMS A POSSIBILITY DUE TO THE UNSTABLE AIR. LARGE
HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER CONCERN...WITH DAMAGING WINDS
AS WELL. WHILE MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE IN THE
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE...STORMS COULD DEVELOP IN
THE SOUTH...BUT WILL BE MORE ISOLATED IN NATURE.

ANOTHER COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING
IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY. THIS COMPLEX WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH
TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. HOWEVER...THERE IS A POSSIBILITY IT COULD
AFFECT SOME AREAS OF THE SOUTH. IF THESE THUNDERSTORMS REACH
SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

STALLED FRONTAL SYSTEMS OR OTHER THUNDERSTORM BOUNDARIES ARE EXPECTED
TO BE IN AND AROUND ARKANSAS THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. A FEW
UPPER LEVEL LOWS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THERE WILL BE CHANCES
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AT TIMES...WITH ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG ONE OF THE BOUNDARIES
IN THE AREA COULD MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS RESULTING IN LOCALLY
HEAVY TO EXCESSIVE RAINS AND FLASH FLOODING. THE CHANCE OF THIS
WILL BE ENHANCED AT NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED EARLY THIS MORNING IN SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS AND AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY IN SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:24 AM CST, 5 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1024 AM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

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

0400 AM     TSTM WND DMG     DELIGHT                 34.03N 93.51W
06/02/2004                   PIKE               AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LARGE LIMBS DOWN

0508 AM     TSTM WND DMG     6 S CARTHAGE            33.99N 92.56W
06/02/2004                   DALLAS             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN

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The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:41 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Boone

When: June 2, 2:42 PM CST
Where: Boone County, Bellefonte
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.200, -93.050

Hail, Boone

When: June 2, 2:45 PM CST
Where: Boone County, Valley Spgs
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 36.150, -93.000

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

More

Every storm in Arkansas in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5407367, 5407368.