Hail, Franklin
- When
- April 21, 3:12 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, 4 mi SE of Cecil
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.400, -93.900
Hail in Arkansas, April 21, 2005
2 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
- 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 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 21, 3:02 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 3:02 PM CST, 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 21, 1:18 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 218 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-221000- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 218 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005 ...SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY INTO TONIGHT... THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. TORNADO. RISK...LIMITED. AREA....EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. ONSET....LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONGOING IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND MAY DEVELOP INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL BE ELEVATED WITH A WIND AND HAIL THREAT. VERY UNSTABLE AIR IS AHEAD OF AN EASTWARD MOVING COLD FRONT. AT MID DAY...THE COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR WICHITA KANSAS TO LAWTON OKLAHOMA WITH A SURFACE WIND SHIFT LINE AHEAD OF THE FRONT. DURING THE AFTERNOON STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM IN THE MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR EAST OF THE COLD FRONT AND WIND SHIFT LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN OR MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PART OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA BETWEEN 3 AND 5PM AND THEN MOVE INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT. STRENGTHENING WIND FIELDS ALOFT AND STRONG INSTABILITY WILL RESULT PRIMARILY IN A SUPERCELL STORM MODE INTO THE EVENING WITH A MIXED MODE OF SUPERCELLS AND LINES TONIGHT. HAIL TO BASEBALL SIZE AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE INITIAL SUPERCELL PHASE. LOW-LEVEL WINDS ARE SOMEWHAT FAVORABLE FOR STORM ROTATION AND A TORNADO THREAT EXISTS AS WELL. THE STORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKLEY EXIT THE TULSA FORECAST AREA AFTER 3AM. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED IN MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY...HIGH WIND POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BRING CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS BACK TO THE AREA ON SUNDAY WITH THE BEST CHANCES ON MONDAY. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 12:44 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 144 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005 ARZ001>002-010>011-019>020-OKZ058-063-068>069-072 -220000- BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CRAWFORD AR-FRANKLIN AR- MADISON AR-WASHINGTON AR-ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK- DELAWARE OK-OTTAWA OK-SEQUOYAH OK- ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 177 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA... IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS BENTON... CARROLL... CRAWFORD... MADISON... WASHINGTON... IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS FRANKLIN... IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA CHEROKEE... SEQUOYAH... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ADAIR... DELAWARE... OTTAWA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BERRYVILLE...EUREKA SPRINGS... ROGERS...BENTONVILLE...JAY...TAHLEQUAH...SALLISAW...VAN BUREN... OZARK...CHARLESTON...FAYETTEVILLE...SPRINGDALE...MIAMI... HUNTSVILLE...STILWELL...MARIETTA AND WESTVILLE.
Local storm report, Apr 21, 1:14 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
214 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0157 PM HAIL QUAPAW 36.95N 94.79W
04/21/2005 0.75 INCH OTTAWA OK EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
SAASpecial weather statement, Apr 21, 2:07 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 307 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005 OKZ058-063-068>069-072-212115- ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK-DELAWARE OK-OTTAWA OK- SEQUOYAH OK- ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 177 FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA... IN OKLAHOMA THIS CANCELS 5 COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA CHEROKEE... SEQUOYAH... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ADAIR... DELAWARE... OTTAWA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...JAY...TAHLEQUAH...SALLISAW... MIAMI...STILWELL...MARIETTA AND WESTVILLE. ARZ001>002-010>011-019>020-220000- BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CRAWFORD AR-FRANKLIN AR- MADISON AR-WASHINGTON AR- ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 177 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA... IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS BENTON... CARROLL... CRAWFORD... MADISON... WASHINGTON... IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS FRANKLIN... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BERRYVILLE...EUREKA SPRINGS... ROGERS...BENTONVILLE...VAN BUREN...OZARK...CHARLESTON... FAYETTEVILLE...SPRINGDALE AND HUNTSVILLE.
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 2:53 PM CST, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
353 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005
ARZ020-212200-
FRANKLIN AR-
353 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
FRANKLIN
AT 353 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
VESTA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED
BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALIX...OZARK...CHARLESTON...BRANCH...PETER
PENDER...VESTA...MEG...DENNING...CECIL...ALTUS AND WIEDERKEHR
VILLAGE.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:12 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Franklin
- When
- April 21, 3:16 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, 6 mi S of Ozark
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.417, -93.833
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 21, 2005
- High Wind in Alaska, April 21 to 22, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, April 21, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 21, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 21, 2005
- Hail in Missouri, April 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 21 to 22, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 21, 2005
- Hail in Missouri, April 21, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 21, 2005
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, April 2005
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: 5448722, 5448721.