1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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, 57 minutes earlier.
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. && 22
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. 22
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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28PRELIMINARY 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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28PRELIMINARY 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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28The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:21 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Just before a severe thunderstorm arrived, lightning triggered a house fire in Pine Ridge...with the house heavily damaged. Firemen said they were pelted by hail as they tried to extinguish the blaze.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, March 2004
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: 5387193.