Hail, Crawford
- When
- March 12, 7:59 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, 7 mi W of Girard
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -94.983
Hail in Kansas, March 12, 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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 12, 7:45 PM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 7:45 PM CST, 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 745 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 .UPDATE... 0-1KM HELICITY VALUES BASED ON THE LATEST RUC ANALYSIS INDICATED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN SW MO SINCE 6 PM. PRESENTLY...VALUES ARE RANGING FROM 400-450M2/S2 WHICH IS VERY SIGNIFICANT FOR STRONG AND LONG-LIVED TORNADOES IF THEY DEVELOP. IN ADDITION...ML CAPES HAVE INDICATED A VERY PRONOUNCED AREA OF HIGHER VALUES ACROSS SOUTHWEST MO WITH A WEAKENING CAP SINCE 5 PM. RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA HAVE INCREASED IN THE OVERALL MID-LEVEL ROTATION SINCE 7 PM. THE OVERALL THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI THROUGH 9 PM...WITH AN INCREASING THREAT IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AFTER 9 PM. JLT && .DISCUSSION... PREVIOUS DISCUSSION AT 330 PM VERY DEFINED CONVERGENT ZONE SEEN IN METAR OBSERVATIONS ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS. DEWPOINTS AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE IN THE 60S OVER SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. BEHIND THE DRY LINE...DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE TEENS. THIS WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT FOR US THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. EXTRAPOLATION OF THE LINE PUTS IT OVER SPRINGFIELD BY 01Z. 18Z SGF SOUNDING SHOWING A LOADED GUN PROFILE...CAPE VALUES OF 2164 J/KG...WBZ AT 8850 FEET AND -5.8 LIS. GETTING REPORTS OF TORNADOS AND LARGE HAIL FROM STORMS IN KANSAS AND NORTHERN MISSOURI AND THEY ARE HEADED THIS WAY. GFS MOVES THE 850MB LOW THROUGH NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI BY 12Z MONDAY. AHEAD OF THE LOW...925MB WINDS UP TO 50KTS COVER THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE. WE ARE GOING TO SEE SEVERE WEATHER PROGRESSING THROUGH THE NIGHT. SPC FORECASTING SQUALL LINE DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT AS WELL AND HAVE THE TORNADO WATCH OUT THROUGH 10 PM THIS EVENING. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT EXTENDED. ONCE THE LOW MOVES EAST...850MB TEMPS DROP FROM 14C TODAY TO -4C TOMORROW AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BECOME MORE SEASONAL MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH TEMPERATURE IN THE MID 50S FOR HIGHS. DID NOT MESS TOO MUCH WITH PREVIOUS FORECAST. DID INTRODUCE CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE FORECAST FOR THURSDAY AS A SHORTWAVE MOVES THROUGH NORTHERN MISSOURI DURING THE DAY. OTHERWISE...JUST FOCUSED ON THE SHORT TERM. GCC && .AVIATION... 00Z TAFS...DRY LINE STILL HANGING TOUGH OVER EASTERN KANSAS. LATEST SOUNDING SHOWING THE SUBSIDENCE INVERSION STARTING TO BREAK DOWN. SO CONVECTION SHOULD BEGIN ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI SHORTLY. STILL LOOKS LIKE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING AS COLD FRONT DOES NOT MAKE ITS WAY THROUGH UNTIL 12Z TOMORROW. GCC && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. WFO SGF
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 6:25 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 625 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-131500- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 625 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING: HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH. TORNADOES...A FEW POTENTIALLY VIOLENT AND LONG LIVED. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: ALL OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING. THE HIGHEST THREAT AREA WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM JOPLIN TO NEVADA EARLY THROUGH 9 PM THIS EVENING. SPREADING EASTWARD OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM BRANSON TO OSAGE BEACH AROUND MIDNIGHT. THEN OVER SOUTHEASTERN AND EASTERN MISSOURI AROUND 3 AM. DISCUSSION: THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOCUSED ALONG A WARM FRONT OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI AND ALONG A DRY LINE SITUATED OVER EASTERN KANSAS. CURRENTLY...THE DRY LINE IS LOCATED IN EASTERN KANSAS FROM TOPEKA SOUTH TO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING ALONG THIS LINE AND THE LINE WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST OVERNIGHT. SQUALL LINES ARE EXPECTED TO FORM OVER NIGHT AND THE ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF PRODUCING SOME VIOLENT TORNADOES. THIS IS POTENTIALLY A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. PLEASE REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND MONITOR LOCAL MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR WATCHES AND WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE THURSDAY FOR AN INCREASED THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) GCC
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 12, 2:43 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
243 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0216 PM HAIL UNIONTOWN 37.85N 94.97W
03/12/2006 E1.75 INCH BOURBON KS AMATEUR RADIO
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JASLocal storm report, Mar 12, 2:58 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
258 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0225 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 6 W FORT SCOTT 37.84N 94.82W
03/12/2006 BOURBON KS TRAINED SPOTTER
SPOTTER OBSERVED FUNNEL CLOUD 6 MILES W OF FORT SCOTT
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JASSpecial weather statement, Mar 12, 3:45 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 345 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-122345- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT SCOTT...PITTSBURG... BAXTER SPRINGS...COLUMBUS...WARSAW...COLE CAMP...VERSAILLES... ELDON...LAKE OZARK...VIENNA...NEVADA...APPLETON CITY...OSCEOLA... HERMITAGE...OSAGE BEACH...CAMDENTON...FORT LEONARD WOOD... WAYNESVILLE...ROLLA...LAMAR...EL DORADO SPRINGS...STOCKTON... BOLIVAR...BUFFALO...LEBANON...HOUSTON...CABOOL...SALEM...JOPLIN... CARTHAGE...GREENFIELD...SPRINGFIELD...MARSHFIELD...ROGERSVILLE... MOUNTAIN GROVE...MANSFIELD...NEOSHO...AURORA...MOUNT VERNON... NIXA...OZARK...AVA...WEST PLAINS...WINONA...EMINENCE...ANDERSON... PINEVILLE...MONETT...CASSVILLE...KIMBERLING CITY...GALENA... BRANSON...FORSYTH...GAINESVILLE...THEODOSIA...THAYER...ALTON 115 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 74 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN MISSOURI THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI HOWELL OREGON IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BARRY CHRISTIAN DOUGLAS MCDONALD NEWTON OZARK STONE TANEY THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ALTON...ANDERSON...AVA...BRANSON... CASSVILLE...FORSYTH...GAINESVILLE...GALENA...KIMBERLING CITY... MONETT...NEOSHO...NIXA...OZARK...PINEVILLE...THAYER...THEODOSIA... WEST PLAINS AND WILLOW SPRINGS. TORNADO WATCH 73 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN KANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS BOURBON CHEROKEE CRAWFORD IN MISSOURI THIS WATCH INCLUDES 24 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL MISSOURI BENTON CAMDEN HICKORY MARIES MILLER MORGAN PHELPS PULASKI ST. CLAIR IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI DENT SHANNON TEXAS IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BARTON CEDAR DADE DALLAS GREENE JASPER LACLEDE LAWRENCE POLK VERNON WEBSTER WRIGHT THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...APPLETON CITY...AURORA... BAXTER SPRINGS...BOLIVAR...BUFFALO...CABOOL...CAMDENTON... CARTHAGE...COLE CAMP...COLUMBUS...EL DORADO SPRINGS...ELDON... EMINENCE...FORT LEONARD WOOD...FORT SCOTT...GREENFIELD... HERMITAGE...HOUSTON...JOPLIN...LAKE OZARK...LAMAR...LEBANON... MANSFIELD...MARSHFIELD...MOUNT VERNON...MOUNTAIN GROVE...NEVADA... OSAGE BEACH...OSCEOLA...PITTSBURG...REPUBLIC...ROGERSVILLE... ROLLA...SALEM...SPRINGFIELD...STOCKTON...VERSAILLES...VIENNA... WARSAW...WAYNESVILLE AND WINONA. WFO SGF
Local storm report, Mar 12, 4:44 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
444 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0358 PM TORNADO IONIA 38.50N 93.32W
03/12/2006 BENTON MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTS OF DAMAGE TO HOMES WEST OF IONIA NEAR HIGHWAY P
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JASLocal storm report, Mar 12, 6:22 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
622 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0425 PM TSTM WND DMG FLORENCE 38.59N 92.98W
03/12/2006 MORGAN MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
2 GRAIN BINS DOWN ON FRY ROAD IN THE VICINITY OF FLORENCE
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JASLocal storm report, Mar 12, 7:24 PM CST, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
724 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0723 PM HAIL UNIONTOWN 37.85N 94.97W
03/12/2006 E0.75 INCH BOURBON KS FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
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GCLAYCOMThe radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:59 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.
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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: 5493439.