Hail, Franklin
- When
- January 12, 10:05 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, 2 mi SW of Mt Vernon
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.167, -95.250
Hail in Texas, January 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 12, 7:56 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 7:56 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 756 PM CST THU JAN 12 2006 .DISCUSSION... UPDATED TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 13 AND MAKE CHANGES TO CHANCE OF RAIN FOR AFFECTED PARISHES AND COUNTIES. BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING OVER SE OK AND INTO EXTREME NW AR AND SW MO. THIS DEVELOPMENT WAS ALONG AND NEAR A COLD FRONT. THE FRONT WAS SPREADING EAST AND EXTENDED FROM NEAR THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH AREA INTO SW MO AND ON NORTHEAST TO THE GREAT LAKES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 49 62 36 64 / 60 0 0 0 MLU 52 62 34 61 / 60 20 0 0 DEQ 40 61 27 62 / 50 0 0 0 TXK 48 61 36 64 / 50 0 0 0 ELD 47 60 31 62 / 60 0 0 0 TYR 46 63 34 64 / 50 0 0 0 GGG 47 63 32 63 / 50 0 0 0 LFK 49 65 32 67 / 50 0 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 06/15
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 12, 12:00 PM CST, 10 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST THU JAN 12 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>167-131200- 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- 1200 PM CST THU JAN 12 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 SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM NACOGDOCHES TEXAS TO NASHVILLE ARKANSAS. A COLD FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH WARM AND MOIST GULF AIR...TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...WHICH MAY DEVELOP INTO A LINE ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. INITIAL THREAT WOULD LIKELY BE LARGE HAIL...DUE TO STEEP LAPSE RATES AND INSTABILITY. ALSO...THERE WILL BE AN INCREASING THREAT OF WIND DAMAGE OVERNIGHT AS THE STORMS EVOLVE INTO LINES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... A POTENT STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE REGION LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY...BRINGING WITH IT A LIKELIHOOD OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...MAY BE NEEDED BY TONIGHT. 14
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 12, 9:21 PM CST, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
921 PM CST THU JAN 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0900 PM HAIL BATTIEST 34.40N 94.93W
01/12/2006 0.88 INCH MCCURTAIN OK LAW ENFORCEMENT
NICKEL SIZED HAIL NORTHWEST OF BETHEL NEAR BATTIEST
&&
15Local storm report, Jan 12, 9:48 PM CST, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
948 PM CST THU JAN 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0920 PM HAIL VALLIANT 34.00N 95.09W
01/12/2006 0.75 INCH MCCURTAIN OK EMERGENCY MNGR
PENNY SIZED HAIL 1/2 MILE NORTH OF VALLIANT
&&
15Local storm report, Jan 12, 10:04 PM CST, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1004 PM CST THU JAN 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0950 PM HAIL IDABEL 33.90N 94.82W
01/12/2006 0.75 INCH MCCURTAIN OK LAW ENFORCEMENT
PENNY SIZED HAIL IN IDABEL
&&
15The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:07 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
- Dense Fog in Louisiana, January 12, 2006
- High Surf in Puerto Rico, January 12, 2006
- Tornado in Arkansas, January 12, 2006
- Tornado in Arkansas, January 12, 2006
- Wildfire in Texas, January 12, 2006
- Dense Fog in Virginia, January 12, 2006
- High Wind in American Samoa, January 12 to 13, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, January 12, 2006
- Dense Fog in Maryland, January 12, 2006
- Hail in Arkansas, January 12, 2006
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Washington, January 12 to 14, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, January 12, 2006
More
Every storm in Texas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 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: 5483107.