Hail, Lee
- When
- March 13, 9:13 PM CST to 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County, Shannon
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Property damage
- $50
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 34.117, -88.717
Hail in Mississippi, March 13, 2005
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
- $50
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 13, 2:08 PM CST, 7 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 2:08 PM CST, 7 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 208 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE MAP PLACES A COLD FRONT ORIENTED FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST FROM NEAR GREENWOOD MS TO COLUMBUS MS. SATELLITE HAS SHOWN A HOLE IN THE CLOUDS OVER WEST TN. MEANWHILE RADAR HAS SHOWN SOME LIGHT RAIN THAT HAS DEVELOPED NEAR LITTLE ROCK. THIS RAIN IS IN RESPONSE TO AN 850MB LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT THAT IS MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. GFS SEEMS TO HAVE THE BETTER HANDLE ON TONIGHTS SITUATION. THE GFS SHOWS AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN IN ASSOCIATED TO POSITIVE VERTICAL MOTION DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS DEVELOPING AROUND 18Z AND THEN MOVING ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH THIS EVENING. MADE MINOR CHANGES TO POPS TONIGHT. ANY CONVECTION SHOULD REMAIN SOUTH OF THE AREA WITH THE FRONT. THIS LEAVES ONLY LIGHT RAIN WITH THE 850MB SYSTEM. SINCE THE RAIN IS SO LIGHT...HAVE ONLY CHANCE POPS GOING. BETTER CHANCES PROBABLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HARRISBURG TO DYERSBURG TO PARIS. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA TOMORROW. CLEARING SKIES WILL WORK IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. 850 TEMPS SUPPORTING HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 50S. HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN IN CONTROL INTO TUESDAY. BOTH ETA AND GFS SHOWING THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTHWESTERN US LATE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. THE ASSOCIATED SHORTWAVE HAS TWO VORT MAXS. THE SOUTHERN VORT IS THE MAIN FOCUS FOR THE AREA. THE ETA IS FURTHER SOUTH WITH THE ASSOCIATED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM THAN THE GFS. AS A RESULT...THERE COULD BE SOME PRECIP TYPE ISSUES IF THE ETA VERIFIES. THE GFS HAS BEEN MORE CONSISTENT WITH THE PRECIP TYPE REMAINING LIQUID. THIS TRACK BRINGS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM OVER THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT. BOTH MODELS SHOWING SOME RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE LINGERING BEHIND THE MAIN SYSTEM INTO WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE THEN BUILDS IN THURSDAY WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. THEN...A RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE AREA INTO THE WEEKEND WITH ANOTHER GOOD TROUGH ARRIVING LATE IN THE WEEKEND. && .MEG...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MS...NONE. MO...NONE. TN...NONE. && VALLE
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 7:35 PM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 735 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-141200- ALCORN-BENTON-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DECATUR-DESOTO-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)-MADISON- MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-PHILLIPS- POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-ST. FRANCIS- TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-UNION-WEAKLEY- YALOBUSHA- 735 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS A PORTION OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PONTOTOC TO COFFEEVILLE THROUGH 11 PM. AN ISOLATED STORM MAY BECOME SEVERE ACROSS THE AFFECTED AREA WITH HAIL AS THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:14 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 13, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Louisiana, March 13, 2005
- Tornado in Alabama, March 13, 2005
- Hail in Alabama, March 13, 2005
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 13 to 16, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 13, 2005
- Wildfire in U.S. Virgin Islands, March 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 13, 2005
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 13, 2005
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 13 to 15, 2005
- Hail in Alabama, March 13, 2005
- Hail in Georgia, March 13, 2005
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, March 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: 5440556.