Hail in Missouri, March 12, 2006

Name: Hail in Missouri, March 12, 2006
Start: 2006-03-12T19:57
End: 2006-03-12T20:07
Location: Missouri

March 12, 2006 · NWS EAX · 4 events in 1 county or zone

4 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.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $325,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 12, 3:40 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 3:40 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
340 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

.DISCUSSION...

SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING AT THIS TIME. AS SURFACE LOW EXITS THIS
EVENING...SO WILL THE THUNDERSTORMS. HAVE TAPERED OFF POPS FROM WEST
TO EAST DURING THE EVENING. IF DRYLINE DOES NOT IGNITE IN SOUTHEAST
KANSAS IN THE CU FIELDS THIS AFTERNOON...MAY BE ABLE TO TAKE TSRA
OUT OF FORECAST A BIT EARLIER. SEEING WINDS SHIFTING MORE TO THE
SOUTHWEST...AND DEWPOINT DEPRESSION INCREASING. IF DRYLINE LIGHTS
UP...SHOULD BE IN THE NEXT 2 HOURS.

PRECIP WILL WRAP AROUND THE BACK SIDE OF THE LOW OVERNIGHT...BUT NOT
EXPECTING MUCH IN THE WAY OF PRECIP WITH THAT EXCEPT POSSIBLY IN
EXTREME NORTHERN MO. HAVE JUST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THAT AREA. WE
SHOULD SEE AN EXTENSIVE STRATUS DECK HOWEVER.

TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE COLD FRONT ARE MUCH COOLER...WITH LOWS
TONIGHT IN THE MID 30S IN NORTHWEST MO.  SHOULD SEE A LARGE TEMP
GRADIENT DOWN TO CENTRAL MO. ON MONDAY...WITH THE STRATUS DECK...THE
DIURNAL RANGE SHOULD ONLY BE ABOUT 10 DEG WITH A BREEZY NORTHWEST
WIND.  SURFACE HIGH IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA ON TUESDAY WITH
TEMPERATURES REBOUNDING ONLY SLIGHTLY. BY WEDNESDAY...WE SEE ANOTHER
LOW DEVELOP ON THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS. HAVE INTRODUCED PRECIP FOR
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE GULF MOISTURE LOOKS TO BE ABLE TO GET
HERE...AND MAY NEED TO BRING POPS INTO WED AFTERNOON. GFS SOUNDINGS
SHOW SOME ELEVATED INSTABILITY POSSIBLE...BUT HAVE LEFT THUNDER OUT
FOR NOW.

HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION THROUGH THE REST OF THE
WEEK. MID RANGE MODELS SHOWING SOME SIGNAL FOR ANOTHER FRONT TO GO
THROUGH NEXT SUNDAY. HAVE PUT IN SLIGHT CHANCES THUS FAR.

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&&

.PREV DISCUSSION...

415 AM SUN...
COMPLEX WEATHER SCENARIO IS UNFOLDING TODAY WITH THE MAKINGS FOR A
SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. A
VIGOROUS MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL TRACK ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS
AND HEAD TOWARD NORTHWEST MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...AT
THE SURFACE A WARM FRONT WILL SURGE NORTHWARD THROUGH CENTRAL
MISSOURI FROM ITS CURRENT LOCATION OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI. A DRY
LINE WILL ALSO HEAD EAST FROM EASTERN KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON.
STRONG DIFFLUENCE WILL DEVELOP ALOFT IN RESPONSE TO A 140KT+ UPPER
JET.

CURRENTLY A FEW RADAR ECHOES HAVE BEEN NOTED OVER THE SOUTHEAST
PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA...IN ASSOCIATION WITH INCREASING MID
LEVEL ISENTROPIC LIFT. HAVE INCLUDED A LOW END CHANCE OF SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING AS THE AREA OF ISENTROPIC
LIFT SPREADS NORTHWARD.

ATTENTION THEN TURNS TO CONVECTIVE INITIATION THIS AFTERNOON. AM
ANTICIPATING AN AREA OF CONVECTION TO DEVELOP FROM THE WARM FRONT
AND SOUTH ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE ADVANCING DRYLINE BEGINNING
IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON. MANY FAVORABLE SEVERE WEATHER
PARAMETERS ARE FORECAST TO BE IN PLACE SO IT SHOULDNT TAKE LONG FOR
STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE ONCE THEY DEVELOP. THERE IS A DEFINITE LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND THREAT WITH THE ANTICIPATED SUPERCELLULAR
STORMS...AND A TORNADIC THREAT ESPECIALLY NEAR THE WARM FRONT WHERE
LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL BE MORE BACKED AND EHI VALUES REACH THE 3 TO 4
RANGE. MAIN NEGATIVE FACTOR THE STORMS MUST OVERCOME IS THE
EXCEPTIONAL SHEAR MAGNITUDE...WHICH IS PROGGED TO BE IN EXCESS OF 80
KNOTS FROM 0-6KM ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI. THE MOVEMENT OF THE WARM
FRONT THIS MORNING WILL WARRANT WATCHING...AS ANY SLOWER MOVEMENT
THAN PROGGED BY THE EARLIER MODEL RUNS WOULD SHIFT THE
SEVERE/TORNADIC THREAT FURTHER SOUTH THAN NORTHERN MISSOURI. STORMS
ARE THEN ANTICIPATED TO DEVELOP INTO A SQUALL LINE THAT WILL TRACK
EAST/NORTHEAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS
EVENING.

THE TRAILING COLD FRONT WILL SWING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AFTER
MIDNIGHT AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS MONDAY. CANT RULE OUT
SOME LIGHT PRECIPITATION ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE DEPARTING
SYSTEM...MAINLY OVER NORTHER MISSOURI MONDAY.
OTHERWISE...TEMPERATURES WILL COOL SIGNIFICANTLY TONIGHT AND
ACTUALLY HEAD BACK TOWARD NORMAL FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE WORK WEEK.

STOFLET
&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

WFO EAX

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 12:56 PM CST, 7 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1256 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-131200-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-
JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-
PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-
BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-
RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-
CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
1256 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL COME THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE LONG-
TRACKED TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL INTO THE EVENING
HOURS.

THESE STORMS ARE FIRING ALONG A DRY LINE THAT IS LOCATED IN EAST
CENTRAL KANSAS. ONCE THE STORMS DEVELOP...THEY WILL QUICKLY BECOME
SUPERCELLULAR AND MOVE INTO MISSOURI. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY
DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING
THE POSSIBILITY OF DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP.
PERSONS ARE URGED TO BE READY TO REACT QUICKLY SHOULD A WARNING BE
ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE EVENING.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 12, 7:33 PM CST, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
733 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0730 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     PRESCOTT                38.07N 94.70W
03/12/2006                   LINN               KS   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            REPORTS OF 2 FUNNEL CLOUDS

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 12, 7:34 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
734 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0728 PM     HAIL             2 W BRAYMER             39.58N 93.84W
03/12/2006  E1.00 INCH       CALDWELL           MO   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 12, 7:38 PM CST, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
738 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0656 PM     HAIL             LEES SUMMIT             38.92N 94.38W
03/12/2006  E1.75 INCHES     JACKSON            MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

0657 PM     HAIL             HARRISONVILLE           38.65N 94.35W
03/12/2006  E1.00 INCH       CASS               MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0704 PM     HAIL             HARRISONVILLE           38.65N 94.35W
03/12/2006  E0.75 INCHES     CASS               MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

GA

Local storm report, Mar 12, 7:40 PM CST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
740 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0714 PM     HAIL             GALLATIN                39.92N 93.97W
03/12/2006  E0.88 INCHES     DAVIESS            MO   AMATEUR RADIO

0716 PM     HAIL             TRIMBLE                 39.47N 94.57W
03/12/2006  E1.75 INCHES     CLINTON            MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

GA

Local storm report, Mar 12, 7:42 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
742 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0741 PM     HAIL             BRAYMER                 39.58N 93.80W
03/12/2006  E0.75 INCHES     CALDWELL           MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

GA

Local storm report, Mar 12, 7:56 PM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
756 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0749 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     HOLDEN                  38.72N 94.00W
03/12/2006                   JOHNSON            MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

0752 PM     TORNADO          BUTLER                  38.25N 94.33W
03/12/2006                   BATES              MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GROUND ON ORANGE ST.

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GA

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:55 UTC.

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Event by event

4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lafayette

When: March 12, 7:57 PM CST
Where: Lafayette County, 3 mi SW of Concordia
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 38.950, -93.617

Hail, Lafayette

When: March 12, 7:58 PM CST
Where: Lafayette County, Concordia
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.983, -93.583

Hail, Lafayette

When: March 12, 8:05 PM CST
Where: Lafayette County, 3 mi SW of Concordia
Measured: 2.5 in hail
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.950, -93.617

Hail, Lafayette

When: March 12, 8:07 PM CST
Where: Lafayette County, Emma
Measured: 2.75 in hail
Property damage: $300,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.967, -93.500

Large hail damaged many automobiles and homes.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, March 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: 5498591, 5498592, 5498593, 5498594.