Hail, Crawford
- When
- April 30, 8:22 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, Mountainburg
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.633, -94.167
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 30, 7:45 PM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 845 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006 .DISCUSSION... WATER VAPOR IMAGES CONFIRM H5 VORT MAX SHOWN BY MODELS. THIS VORT MAX WAS SOUTH OF WICHITA AT 1Z AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS TULSA TO NEAR SILOAM SPRINGS BY 1 AM. EXPECT CONVECTION TO REMAIN SOUTHEAST OF THIS VORT MAX...SO EXPECT THE CONVECTION TO END OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY MIDNIGHT AND OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS A FEW HOURS AFTER THAT. AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES COOL...EXPECT AIRMASS TO BECOME MORE STABLE AND SEVERITY OF STORMS TO LESSEN. SECOND LINE OF STORMS HAS DEVELOPED JUST TO THE EAST OF CLAREMORE INTO WESTERN WAGONER COUNTY. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO CONTINUE TO THE SOUTHEAST AND WILL MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THE POPS FOR THIS. PLAN NO CHANGES TO TEMPS OVERNIGHT. && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM FORECASTER ID= 6 LONG TERM FORECASTER ID= 2
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
405 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-011000-
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-
352 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...
THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
RISK...ELEVATED.
AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
ONSET...LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
AREA AT GREATEST RISK...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
DISCUSSION...
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN
KANSAS AND WILL MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. VERY COLD AIR ALOFT AND
WARM AFTERNOON SURFACE TEMPERATURES HAVE CREATED A VERY UNSTABLE
CONDITION THAT WILL BE CONDUCIVE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY
THREAT...BUT STRONG WINDS ALOFT AND RELATIVELY DRY AIR BELOW CLOUD
BASE WILL ENHANCE THE CHANCES OF STRONG TO SEVERE WIND GUSTS WITH
ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. THE THREAT AREA WILL BE MAINLY
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40.
SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS SUGGESTED THROUGH THE EVENING.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS.
EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE OFF AND ON THROUGH MUCH OF THE
WEEK AS A SERIES OF WEAK DISTURBANCES BYPASSES THE AREA MAINLY TO
THE NORTH AND A SURFACE BOUNDARY APPROACHES...THEN MOVES THROUGH THE
AREA BY MID TO LATE IN THE WEEK. AVAILABLE INSTABILITY AND EXPECTED
WIND SHEAR PROFILES SUGGEST THAT A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT COULD
DEVELOP BY MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN BY LATE
TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT...
LATER FORECASTS SHOULD BE CLOSELY MONITORED FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE WEATHER MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN LATE TUESDAY INTO
WEDNESDAY.
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL
INFORMATION.SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
826 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
OKZ067-010200-
WAGONER OK-
826 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
WAGONER
AT 826 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ONETA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL
BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ONETA.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
40 MPH.SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
833 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
ARZ010-019-010215-
CRAWFORD AR-WASHINGTON AR-
833 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
WASHINGTON AND CRAWFORD
AT 833 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI TO 8 MILES WEST
OF SUMMERS TO 19 MILES WEST OF ODELL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WALNUT
GROVE...ODELL...FAYETTEVILLE...WINSLOW...WEST FORK...LINCOLN...
PRAIRIE GROVE...FARMINGTON...BLACKBURN...HOGEYE...STRICKLER...
MORROW...BRENTWOOD...WOOLSEY...WYOLA...CLYDE...CANEHILL...SUMMERS...
BLACK OAK...GREENLAND...RHEA...VINEY GROVE...CINCINNATI...
WEDINGTON...SAVOY...MOUNTAINBURG...ALMA...CEDARVILLE...NATURAL DAM...
CHESTER...RUDY...LEE CREEK AND MOUNT GAYLER.
THESE STORMS 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.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
849 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 S PEGGS 36.05N 95.10W
04/30/2006 CHEROKEE OK EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN
0813 PM TSTM WND GST 1 N TAHLEQUAH 35.93N 94.97W
04/30/2006 E60.00 MPH CHEROKEE OK TRAINED SPOTTER
0813 PM HAIL TULSA 36.13N 95.92W
04/30/2006 E0.88 INCH TULSA OK TRAINED SPOTTER
0821 PM HAIL PAWHUSKA 36.67N 96.34W
04/30/2006 E0.88 INCH OSAGE OK LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
PBSSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
901 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
OKZ068-010230-
CHEROKEE OK-
901 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
CHEROKEE
AT 901 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12
MILES WEST OF HULBERT...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...TAHLEQUAH...HULBERT AND
ELDON.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
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</html>The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:22 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, April 2006
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: 5506683.