Hail, Conway
- When
- May 13, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Conway County, 2 mi E of Morrilton
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.150, -92.717
Hail in Arkansas, May 13, 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 May 13, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 315 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 .DISCUSSION... MOST OF THE WEATHER WILL BE ON THE FRONT END OF THIS FORECAST. UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL PUSH SHORT WAVE TO THE NORTHEAST...TRIGGERING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS THERE...BUT SOMEWHAT TEMPERED ON ACCOUNT OF CLOUD DEBRIS MOVING OVER ARKANSAS FROM THE NE TEXAS COMPLEX. GFS NUMBERS PREFERRED ON THEIR PATTERN OF ENDING PRECIPITATION EARLY ON SATURDAY RATHER THAN DRAGGING POPS THROUGH ALL FOUR PERIODS BY THE FWC NUMBERS. SURFACE FRONT WILL CLEAR MOST OF THE STATE SATURDAY MORNING EXCEPT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER. ANOTHER WEAK FRONT WILL APPROACH THE NORTHERN BORDER BY TUESDAY...SO INCLUDED CHANCES OF SHOWERS FOR THE NORTHERN SECTIONS ONLY ON TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. FOLLOWED TEMPERATURES FROM THE GFS CLOSELY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 65 73 53 75 / 80 60 10 10 HARRISON AR 56 62 45 72 / 80 40 10 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 65 73 53 76 / 80 60 10 10 PINE BLUFF AR 66 74 55 77 / 80 70 20 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 57 63 45 72 / 80 40 10 10 MONTICELLO AR 66 76 56 78 / 80 70 20 10 SEARCY AR 65 70 51 75 / 80 60 10 10 MOUNT IDA AR 65 72 52 75 / 80 50 10 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 64 67 49 74 / 80 50 10 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 32
Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 7:30 AM CST, 9 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 830 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-141000- 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- 830 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING OVER ALL OF THE NATURAL STATE...AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS MOVES ACROSS ARKANSAS. LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE STATE FROM THE GREAT PLAINS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND AREAS WEST OF A HARRISON...TO DANVILLE...TO EL DORADO LINE WILL BE UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. AS THE FRONT MOVES TO THE EAST ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS...THE SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL DIMINISH...BUT SOME HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD AND IS EXPECTED TO EXIT ARKANSAS EARLY ON SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH RAIN CHANCES DECREASING FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN BEHIND THE FRONT AND PERSIST ACROSS THE AREA INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY ACROSS WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 58
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:15 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
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2004
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- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 13, 2004
- Damaging Wind in New York, May 13, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 13, 2004
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 13 to 14, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 13, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Texas, May 13, 2004
More
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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: 5395976.