Hail, Polk
- When
- January 9, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County, Bog Spgs
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 34.317, -94.417
Hail in Arkansas, January 9, 2006
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 9, 4:02 PM CST, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 4:02 PM CST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 402 PM CST MON JAN 9 2006 .SHORT AND LONG TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY FINALLY...IT APPEARS WE WILL GET SOME MUCH NEEDED RAINFALL ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. NOT A DROUGHT-BUSTER...BUT EVERY LITTLE BIT OF MOISTURE HELPS WHEN YOU ARE AS DRY AS WE ARE. FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHS OF 2005...OUR AREA AVERAGED A TOTAL OF ABOUT 9 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THAT SAID...NOW ON TO THE FORECAST. FRONTAL SYSTEM WAS STALLED OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AT MID AFTERNOON. VIGOROUS H5 LOW WILL DROP OUT OF THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AND BRING GOOD CHANCES OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO OUR AREA. AS THE CENTER OF THE UPPER LOW MOVES ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS ON TUESDAY...LOWER THICKNESS VALUES ALONG WITH THE 0 DEGREE LINE AT 850 MB WILL SHIFT SOUTHWARD INTO THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS. VALUES SHOULD BE LOW ENOUGH TO PRODUCE A RAIN AND SNOW MIX OVER ABOUT OUR NORTHERN 2 TIERS OF COUNTIES BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. AT THIS TIME...I EXPECT LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATIONS. ELSEWHERE THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD REMAIN LIQUID. ALL PRECIPITATION SHOULD MOVE OUT THE AREA BY TUESDAY EVENING. THEN DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. NEXT FRONT SHOULD BE A FAST MOVER AND AFFECT THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. MOISTURE AT THIS TIME APPEARS IT WILL BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED...SO DONT EXPECT ANY LARGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN BEHIND WITH DRY WEATHER EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND. NEXT FRONT WILL THEN MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON MONDAY WITH AGAIN SMALL CHANCES OF RAINFALL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 45 48 35 59 / 90 90 10 0 HARRISON AR 35 35 30 55 / 70 70 10 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 45 49 34 61 / 80 80 10 0 PINE BLUFF AR 49 51 36 61 / 90 90 10 0 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 35 36 32 55 / 70 70 10 0 MONTICELLO AR 52 56 38 62 / 80 80 10 0 SEARCY AR 42 47 35 57 / 80 90 10 0 MOUNT IDA AR 43 48 33 62 / 80 80 10 0 RUSSELLVILLE AR 40 45 32 59 / 70 70 10 0 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 22
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 11:12 AM CST, 10 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1112 AM CST MON JAN 9 2006 ARZ030-031-014-033-012-013-037-038-053-056-057-054-055-015-016- 034-062-063-052-067-066-065-064-069-068-025-005-004-007-024-003- 041-040-043-042-045-044-047-046-022-021-032-023-006-039-101100- LOGAN-CONWAY-STONE-WHITE-NEWTON-SEARCY-SCOTT-YELL-CLARK-JEFFERSON- ARKANSAS-HOT SPRING-GRANT-IZARD-INDEPENDENCE-WOODRUFF-DALLAS- CLEVELAND-PIKE-CALHOUN-OUACHITA-DESHA-LINCOLN-DREW-BRADLEY- JACKSON-BAXTER-MARION-SHARP-CLEBURNE-BOONE-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SALINE- GARLAND-LONOKE-PULASKI-MONROE-PRAIRIE-POPE-JOHNSON-FAULKNER- VAN BUREN-FULTON-PERRY- 1112 AM CST MON JAN 9 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT THIS AFTERNOON. AT THE SAME TIME...AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM DEVELOPING OFF THE ROCKIES WILL MOVE TOWARD ARKANSAS. THESE SYSTEMS WILL INTERACT THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AND WILL OVERSPREAD MUCH OF THE STATE TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS IN THE EXTREME SOUTH COULD PRODUCE HAIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH IN MOST AREAS...WITH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS LIKELY ACCUMULATING MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAIN. .DAY TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON TUESDAY...AND WILL GRADUALLY COME TO AN END BY TUESDAY EVENING...AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVE NORTHEAST AND AWAY FROM ARKANSAS. SOME OF THE RAIN MAY BE MIXED WITH SNOW IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS TUESDAY NIGHT BEFORE COMING TO AN END. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL AFFECT ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER CHANCE OF RAIN TO MUCH OF THE STATE. THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 22
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 9, 9:18 PM CST, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
918 PM CST MON JAN 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0905 PM HAIL HECTOR 35.47N 92.98W
01/09/2006 0.88 INCH POPE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
INIGUEZThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Polk
- When
- January 9, 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County, Hatton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.350, -94.367
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
- High Wind in Wyoming, January 9 to 10, 2006
- High Wind in Oregon, January 9 to 10, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, January 9 to 10, 2006
- Winter Storm in Montana, January 9 to 11, 2006
- High Wind in Oregon, January 9 to 10, 2006
- High Wind in Montana, January 9, 2006
- Winter Storm in Idaho, January 9 to 11, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, January 9 to 10, 2006
- High Wind in Montana, January 9, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Texas, January 9, 2006
- Hail in Arkansas, January 9, 2006
- Hail in Oklahoma, January 9, 2006
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, January 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: 5486914, 5486915.