Hail, Lonoke
- When
- June 25, 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lonoke County, 3 mi E of Cabot
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 34.967, -91.967
Hail in Arkansas, June 25, 2006
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
- 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 Jun 25, 11:40 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 11:40 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1240 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 .AVIATION... RADAR TRENDS SUGGEST THAT KLIT AND KPBF ARE THE MOST LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED BY AFTERNOON CONVECTION. THUS...WENT FOR TEMPO TSTMS AT THESE TWO SITES. INCLUDED VCTS FOR KHRO LATER THIS EVE AS VORT MAX SWINGS THRU. PATCHY BR AROUND SUNRISE AGAIN MON...ESPECIALLY WHERE RAIN HAS FALLEN RECENTLY. && .PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 1100 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006/ UPDATE... DANGEROUS NORTHWEST FLOW HAS REARED ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN AS TWO ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN PROGRESS AT ISSUE TIME...ONE OVER THE OFFICE AND THE OTHER BETWEEN JACKSONVILLE AND CABOT. THESE DEVELOPED AN HOUR OR TWO AGO IN FAULKNER COUNTY AND HAVE SLOWLY MOVED TO THE SOUTH. A WEAK SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA IS LIKELY RESPONSIBLE. ALSO...A TIGHTER NORTHEAST GRADIENT AROUND A SURFACE HIGH IN THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS IS MOVING INTO THE AREA. A WIND SHIFT FROM CHAOTIC LIGHT AND VARIABLE TO NORTH OR NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH WAS IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING AND COULD BE ANALYZED AS A BOUNDARY. THIS SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A LOT OF CLOUD DEBRIS CONTINUES ACROSS THE AREA SO ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON FROM HEATING APPEARS LIKELY. LEFT SMALL POPS IN FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND WENT WITH ISOLATED WORDING. A REINFOCING COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FROM THE NORTH TONIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY. BASED ON THE REMAINING MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY...WILL LIKELY PUT IN SMALL POPS FOR TONIGHT AND POSSIBLY EARLY MONDAY. DECIDED TO LOOK AT THE NEW MODEL RUNS AND GUIDANCE BEFORE INSERTING THIS INTO THE FORECAST SO IT WILL LIKELY SHOW UP ON THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE. SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE TO WIND AND DEW POINT FORECASTS TO FIT OBSERVED DATA AND UPDATE SENT TO CLEAR UP MORNING WORDING AS WELL. 29 PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 637 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006/ AVIATION... AREAS OF FOG WILL DISSIPATE BY 15Z. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY.(38) PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 330 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE LEADING EDGE OF A SHORT WAVE IS TRIGGERING WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS. WILL INCLUDE 20 PERCENT POPS FOR TODAY IN LIGHT OF MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE REGION. DRY FORECAST IN THE SHORT RANGE PAST TODAY IN LIGHT OF NEXT SHORT WAVE SLIDING ACROSS FARTHER NORTH. BASICALLY A REINFORCING SHOT OF COOLER AIR WILL SETTLE OVER OUR FORECAST AREA UNTIL THE NEXT FRONT THAT WILL BE AFFECTING US IN THE LONG TERM. TEMPS WILL BE SOMEWHAT BELOW NORMALS. LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NOT MUCH CHANGE FORM PREVIOUS THINKING. THE LATEST GUIDANCE LEANS MORE TOWARDS A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE THURSDAY...SO WILL THEREFORE KEEP SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. AT OR BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE PERIOD. LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. 32 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && AVIATION...28
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 9:13 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1013 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-261000- 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- 1013 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. HOWEVER...THE CHANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEAR TO BE LOW AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 28
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:13 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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 25 to 26, 2006
- Flood in Virginia, June 25 to 27, 2006
- Flash Flood in District of Columbia, June 25 to 27, 2006
- Flash Flood in Maryland, June 25, 2006
- Flash Flood and Flood in Delaware, June 25 to 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 25, 2006
- Flooding in Virginia, June 25 to 27, 2006
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 25, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 25, 2006
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Arizona, June 25, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, June 25, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 25, 2006
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 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: 5515830.