Name: Hail in Louisiana, April 7, 2006
Start: 2006-04-07T14:10
End: 2006-04-07T14:10
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 11:10 AM CST, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 11:10 AM CST, 3 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 7, 11:16 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1216 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2006

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-081200-
ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE-
CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD-
HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION-
MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA-
PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX-
SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR-
WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD-
1216 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR.  A MODERATE
RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM
NATCHITOCHES LOUISIANA TO EL DORADO ARKANSAS.

HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH AND ISOLATED TORNADOES
ARE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER RISKS.  HOWEVER...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED TOWARD THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON. A POWERFUL DISTURBANCE...IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE
ATMOSPHERE...WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND INTO THE
FOUR STATE REGION AND RESULT IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE
COMBINATION OF STRONG JET STREAM DYNAMICS...A COLD FRONT...AND A VERY
WARM...MOIST...AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS...WILL ALLOW SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE.  THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS
GREATER FROM SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS INTO CENTRAL LOUISIANA...WHERE
SLIGHTLY HIGHER AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE ARE PRESENT.

THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO END TONIGHT...AS A
SECONDARY COLD FRONT SWINGS THROUGH THE FOUR STATE REGION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS...MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

BUTTS

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:10 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lincoln

When: April 7, 2:10 PM CST
Where: Lincoln County, 3 mi S of Dubach
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 32.650, -92.650

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 Louisiana in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5496538.