Hail, Red River
- When
- March 20, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Red River County, 5 mi N of Clarksville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.683, -95.050
Hail covered the ground near Dimple.
Hail in Texas, March 20, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 20, 3:05 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 3:05 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 305 PM CST SAT MAR 20 2004 .DISCUSSION... FRONT ENTERING SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AT THIS TIME AND STILL ON SCHEDULE TO REACH NORTHWEST PORTION OF CWA BY SUNSET. STRONG CAP STILL HOLDING DOWN CONVECTION AND MAY CONTINUE TO DO SO. HOWEVER...WILL STILL FAVOR CAP ERODING ENOUGH BY 00Z TO GET A FAIRLY DECENT LINE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS. LIT 18Z SOUNDING WAS TENDING IN THIS DIRECTION. WILL CONTINUE WITH MENTION OF SEVERE IN FORECAST...BUT DO NOT EXPECT MUCH. MAIN THREAT WILL BE FOR HAIL...WITH WET BULB ZEROS LOW DUE TO DRY LAYER IN SOUNDING. COULD ALSO BE A FEW DOWNBURST EVENTS. ACTIVITY SHOULD BEGIN TO DIMINISH IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. AIRMASS BEHIND FRONT VERY DRY WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 20S IN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THUS WILL GO WITH NGM DRIER DEWPOINTS FOR SUNDAY. HOWEVER DO NOT BUY THE COOLER NGM TEMPS. PLAN TO GO EVEN WARMER THAN AVN MOS...THUS RH WILL BE QUITE LOW BY MIDDAY. LARGE SURFACE HIGH WILL SETTLE OVER EASTERN U.S. MONDAY WITH FAIR WEATHER CONTINUING THROUGH TUESDAY. BY 12Z WEDNESDAY...HIGH MOVES INTO ATLANTIC... WITH FAIRLY DECENT LEE TROUGH DEVELOPING IN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THIS SHOULD BRING RETURN OF GULF MOISTURE AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SHORT WAVE MOVES EAST OF AREA BY THURSDAY MORNING...SO RELUCTANT TO GO WITH PRECIP AFTER THURSDAY DUE TO LACK OF UPPER SUPPORT AND POSSIBLE LOW LEVEL CAP. DEEPER SYSTEM DEVELOPS OFF WEST COAST BY SATURDAY...WHICH MAY KICK A DECENT SHORT WAVE EAST INTO TEXAS SATURDAY. BUT WITH CAP STILL PRESENT... WILL HOLD POPS NEXT SATURDAY TO SLIGHT CHANCE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 53 66 38 62 / 60 10 0 0 MLU 52 63 36 61 / 60 10 0 0 TXK 50 66 37 60 / 60 10 0 0 TYR 52 69 41 63 / 60 10 0 0 LFK 56 70 39 64 / 40 20 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 20, 12:00 PM CST, 8 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST SAT MAR 20 2004 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-211200- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD- HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA- PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR- WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 1200 PM CST SAT MAR 20 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND NEAR A COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND THE ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND THIS EVENING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 30. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD OVER THE REMAINDER OF EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH. HOWEVER...STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS AS THEY MOVE FARTHER SOUTH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 177 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:16 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
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 20, 2004
- Rip Current in Florida, March 20, 2004
- High Wind in Iowa, March 20, 2004
- Hail in Georgia, March 20, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 20 to 21, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, March 20, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, March 20, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 20, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, March 20, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 20, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 20, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, March 20, 2004
More
Every storm in Texas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 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: 5387518.