Hail in Arkansas, July 22, 2005

Name: Hail in Arkansas, July 22, 2005
Start: 2005-07-22T19:10
End: 2005-07-22T19:10
Location: Arkansas

July 22, 2005 · 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 Jul 22, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
250 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT
UPPER RDG HAS INCRSD ITS INFLUENCE ACRS MUCH OF THE FA THIS
AFTN...WITH MOST TEMPS WELL INTO THE 90S. A FEW LOCATIONS HAVE
TOPPED THE CENTURY MARK WHERE DRIER AIR HAS BEEN ABLE TO MIX DOWN. A
FEW SHOWERS HAVE FORMED OVR THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF W-CNTRL AR THIS
AFTN. THIS ACTIVITY WILL DIE ARND SUNSET AND WL NOT HAVE ANY RAIN
MENTIONED TNGT.

UPPER RDG IS PROGGED TO PERSIST OVR AR THIS WEEKEND. EXPECT MAX
TEMPS ON SAT TO BE A REPEAT TODAY AND AGAIN ON SUN AS UPPER RDG
CENTER RMNS IN THE VCNTY. WARMEST READINGS EXPECT TO OCCUR WHERE
LESSER AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL HAVE OCCURRED THE PAST WEEK...RESULTING
IN DRIER SOIL CONDITIONS. WL EXTEND HEAT ADVY THRU SUN FOR LOCATIONS
MAINLY ALONG AND S OF THE AR RIVER VALLEY.

SOME RETURN IN MOISTURE IS NOTED FOR LATER SUN AND MONDAY. HAVE LEFT
SMALL AFTN AND EARLY EVENING POPS FOR MAINLY S AR FOR THE TIME
BEING. DID LOWER MAX TEMPS A FEW DEGREES FOR MON WITH MORE CLOUDS
EXPECTED AS BETTER RETURN FLOW SETS UP AND CENTER OF UPPER RDG
SLIDES EWD.
&&

.LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
MODELS CONTINUE TO BE IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE SYNOPTIC SCALE BUT
THE DEVIL REMAINS IN THE DETAILS WITH SMALLER SCALE FEATURES NOT IN
THE BEST AGREEMENT OR SHOWING THE BEST CONTINUITY. GFS CONTINUES TO
BE MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH DRIVING A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA
WEDNESDAY WITH THE DGEX MUCH SLOWER. DGEX SOLUTION HAS THE FRONT
WAFFLING AROUND NORTH ARKANSAS/SOUTHERN MISSOURI FOR SEVERAL DAYS
BEFORE IT LIMPS THROUGH LATE FRIDAY. THIS SCENARIO MAKES MORE SENSE
WITH HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE EAST COAST. SOLUTION ALSO IN DECENT
AGREEMENT WITH THE OTHER MODELS AND AS SUCH IS THE PREFERRED CHOICE.

THE PERIOD BEGINS WITH HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE EAST COAST AND OVER
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WITH BROAD TROFFING OVER THE NATIONS MID SECTION
AND A STRONG UPPER LOW MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL CANADA. AS UPPER FLOW
BUCKLES EARLY IN THE PERIOD...MODELS TRY TO DRIVE A COLD FRONT
THROUGH THE AREA TOWARDS THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK. BASED ON THE
UPPER FLOW ALOFT...FRONT EXPECTED TO WAFFLE AROUND NORTHERN ARKANSAS
OR SOUTHERN MISSOURI BEFORE SLOWLY SAGGING SOUTH BUT STILL ONLY
REACHING THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE BY LATE FRIDAY.

WITH FRONT IN THE GENERAL AREA THE MAJORITY OF THE PERIOD...WILL
NEED TO KEEP AT LEAST SCATTERED POPS IN THE FORECAST. WITH NO MUCH
UNCERTAINTY IN THE FINER DETAILS...WILL NOT TRY TO TIME THE
INDIVIDUAL WAVES MOVING THROUGH THE MEAN FLOW AND GO WITH MORE OF A
BROAD BRUSH APPROACH.

CONCERNING TEMPERATURES....INCREASED MOISTURE AND CLOUD COVER WILL
KNOCK DOWN TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES FROM THE STEAMY HIGHS EXPECTED
OVER THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE PRETTY CLOSE TO NORMAL
THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WITH NO WHOLE SCALE CHANGES EXPECTED.
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES...ARZ021...ARZ022...ARZ030...ARZ031...ARZ032...ARZ033...
ARZ034....ARZ037...ARZ038...ARZ039...ARZ040...ARZ041...ARZ042...
ARZ043...ARZ044...ARZ045...ARZ046...ARZ047...ARZ052...ARZ053...
ARZ054...ARZ055...ARZ056...ARZ057...ARZ062...ARZ063...ARZ064...
ARZ065...ARZ066...ARZ067...ARZ068...AND ARZ069.
&&

44/56

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 1:14 PM CST, 5 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
214 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

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

1230 PM     HAIL             FLORAL                  35.59N 91.76W
07/21/2005  1.00 INCH        INDEPENDENCE       AR   PUBLIC

            SMALL TREES AND BRANCHES ALSO DOWN.

0130 PM     HAIL             POSSUM GRAPE            35.47N 91.42W
07/21/2005  0.75 INCH        JACKSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0130 PM     HAIL             BRADFORD                35.42N 91.46W
07/21/2005  0.75 INCH        WHITE              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0140 PM     HAIL             9 E WITTS SPRINGS       35.80N 92.74W
07/21/2005  0.75 INCH        SEARCY             AR   PUBLIC

0200 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GUY                     35.32N 92.33W
07/21/2005                   FAULKNER           AR   PUBLIC

            TREE BLOWN DOWN.

0230 PM     HAIL             QUITMAN                 35.38N 92.21W
07/21/2005  0.88 INCH        CLEBURNE           AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0300 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CONWAY                  35.09N 92.45W
07/21/2005                   FAULKNER           AR   PUBLIC

            TOP OF TREE BLOWN DOWN IN BACK YARD.

0340 PM     HAIL             LAFFERTY                35.92N 91.82W
07/21/2005  0.75 INCH        IZARD              AR   POST OFFICE

0345 PM     HAIL             1 NW CUSHMAN            35.87N 91.79W
07/21/2005  0.75 INCH        INDEPENDENCE       AR   POST OFFICE

&&

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:02 PM CST, 3 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
502 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

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

0420 PM     HAIL             2 S RAGTOWN             34.50N 91.10W
07/21/2005  0.75 INCH        MONROE             AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

0440 PM     HAIL             INDIAN BAY              34.38N 91.07W
07/21/2005  0.88 INCH        MONROE             AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

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The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:08 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jackson

When: July 22, 7:10 PM CST
Where: Jackson County, Grubbs
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 35.650, -91.067

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, July 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: 5463462.