Arkansas, 2004

Hail in Arkansas, March 17, 2004

March 17, 2004 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, 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
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 Mar 17, 10:23 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 10:23 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1023 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

.DISCUSSION...
UPDATED FORECASTS TO HANDLE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 300
AM CST WEDNESDAY. ALL UPDATES WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
&&

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

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 5:10 PM CST, 6 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
510 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-181100-
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-
510 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

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

.DAY ONE...REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY OF NORTHEASTERN TEXAS
WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST DURING THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON
AND THIS EVENING...AND ACROSS ARKANSAS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF
THE SYSTEM AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA...AND INTERACTS WITH SEVERAL
UPPER LEVEL LOWS MOVING OUT AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM.

SOME STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS. THE GREATEST THREATS FROM
STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN
OKLAHOMA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE
STORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
LATE THIS EVENING. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE IN
AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM HARRISON TO MOUNT IDA TO
MENA...BUT SEVERE STORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE FURTHER EAST LATER TONIGHT.

PEOPLE ARE REMINDED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS
DURING THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND TO MONITOR
THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY OVER THE WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN PARTS
OF THE AREA THIS EVENING...AND POSSIBLY IN OTHER AREAS FURTHER EAST
DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 17, 9:21 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
921 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

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

0915 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 S BOONEVILLE          35.12N 93.92W
03/17/2004                   LOGAN              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POWER LINES DOWN. POWER OUTAGES REPORTED IN BOONEVILLE.

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 17, 9:36 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
936 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

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

0910 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 W BOONEVILLE          35.14N 93.97W
03/17/2004                   LOGAN              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN.

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 17, 10:35 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1035 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

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

0940 PM     HAIL             6 N WALDRON             34.99N 94.09W
03/17/2004  0.75 INCH        SCOTT              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            OCCURRED IN THE PACK SADDLE AREA.

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 17, 11:40 PM CST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1140 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

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

1133 PM     HAIL             HOT SPRINGS             34.49N 93.05W
03/17/2004  2.75 INCH        GARLAND            AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            BASEBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR DOWNTOWN HOT SPRINGS.

1125 PM     HAIL             MOUNTAIN PINE           34.57N 93.17W
03/17/2004  1.00 INCH        GARLAND            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

1125 PM     HAIL             SUNSHINE                34.47N 93.23W
03/17/2004  0.75 INCH        GARLAND            AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            POWER OUT IN PARTS OF WESTERN GARLAND COUNTY.

1055 PM     HAIL             1 N AVANT               34.66N 93.33W
03/17/2004  1.25 INCH        GARLAND            AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            HAIL OF VARYING SIZES FROM 3/4 INCH TO 1 1/4 INCHES. ALSO
            WINDS ESTIMATED AT 45 MPH.

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 17, 11:54 PM CST, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1154 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

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

1115 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ROYAL                   34.52N 93.23W
03/17/2004                   GARLAND            AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            STORAGE BUILDINGS BLOWN OUT INTO U.S. HIGHWAY 270.
            ROADWAY BLOCKED.

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 17, 11:57 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1157 PM CST WED MAR 17 2004

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

1154 PM     HAIL             MALVERN                 34.37N 92.82W
03/17/2004  1.75 INCH        HOT SPRING         AR   PUBLIC

&&

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The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Saline

When
March 17, 11:59 PM CST
Where
Saline County, Traskwood
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
34.450, -92.650

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

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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: 5387460.