Name: Hail in Louisiana, February 3, 2006
Start: 2006-02-03T10:52
End: 2006-02-03T10:52
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Feb 3, 10:00 AM CST, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 10:00 AM CST, 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1000 AM CST FRI FEB 3 2006

.UPDATE...

SURFACE OBSERVATIONS SHOW COLD FRONT IS STILL IN CENTRAL OK AT
15Z...W/OVERCAST SKIES AHEAD OF IT.  12Z KSHV SOUNDING SHOWS AS
MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...W/EMBEDDED -TSRA JUST SW OF
KTYR AND STARTING TO FIRE ELSEWHERE.  WILL UPDATE TO MENTION
THIS...AND ADJUST GRIDS TO CURRENT CONDITIONS.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 442 AM CST FRI FEB 3 2006)

DISCUSSION...

A FRONTAL BOUNDARY JUST NORTH OF I30 THIS MORNING WILL MOVE
THROUGH THE AREA TODAY...AS AN ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL TROUGH
SWINGS THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS EVENING. UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY WILL
TRY TO SQUEEZE SOME PRECIPITATION OUT OF THE AIRMASS...BUT LIGHT
RAIN AND SHOWERS MAY BE ALL THAT IS GENERATED ACROSS MUCH OF THE
AREA TODAY. MODELS DO SHOW A SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING AROUND WEST
CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING...THIS FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
NORTHEAST AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF
THIS HAPPENS SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE OBSERVED
ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON. GUIDANCE THINKS CLOUDS AND RAIN SHOULD HOLD MAX TEMPS
DOWN WITH APPROACHING FRONT THIS AFTERNOON...SO NO MORE THAN A
TEN DEGREE WARM UP HAS BEEN FORECASTED FOR TODAY. ANOTHER
DISTURBANCE APPROACHES MONDAY PUTTING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN
THE FORECAST...OTHERWISE A MOSTLY DRY FORECAST IS ON TAP THROUGH
MUCH OF THE SEVEN DAY FORECAST.

ELEVEN

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.
&&

17/44

Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 3, 6:00 AM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:52 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, De Soto

When: February 3, 10:52 AM CST
Where: De Soto County, Mansfield
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 32.033, -93.717

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, February 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: 5486665.