Name: Hail in Arkansas, April 20, 2006
Start: 2006-04-20T13:27
End: 2006-04-20T13:27
Location: Arkansas

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
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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 Apr 20, 11:51 AM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 11:51 AM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 20, 1:25 PM CST, 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
225 PM CDT THU APR 20 2006

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211000-
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-
225 PM CDT THU APR 20 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN
SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT.

A FRONT WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER
ARKANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS WILL PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL. DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE.

.DAY TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
FRIDAY WITH THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS.
ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A RENEWED CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WEST MEMPHIS TO TEXARKANA.

ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE TOWARD THE AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK. THERE ARE
STILL QUESTIONS REGARDING TIMING OF THIS SYSTEM. AS IS OFTEN THE
CASE AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR...THERE COULD BE SOME CHANCE OF SEVERE
WEATHER WITH THIS SYSTEM.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

&&

FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE
VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK

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The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Drew

When: April 20, 1:27 PM CST
Where: Drew County, 1 mi S of Monticello
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.617, -91.800

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

More

Every storm in Arkansas in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, April 2006

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: 5507744.