Hail, Madison
- When
- July 13, 4:13 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County, Crosses
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 35.870, -93.920
Hail in Arkansas, July 13, 2009
An isolated severe thunderstorm occurred over northwest Arkansas during the afternoon hours of the 13th.
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
- $10,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm occurred over northwest Arkansas during the afternoon hours of the 13th.
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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 1:48 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 1:48 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
248 PM CDT MON JUL 13 2009
.DISCUSSION...
TRICKY FORECAST WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES ON WEDNESDAY RIGHT AT
THE VALUES NEEDED FOR A CONTINUANCE IF THE HEAT ADVISORY AND
EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING. SINCE WEDNESDAY IS FOLLOWING A STRING
OF HOT WEATHER AND THE EFFECTS OF HOT WEATHER IS ACCUMULATIVE...
WILL EXTEND THE WARNING/ADVISORY THROUGH 7 PM WEDNESDAY.
WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY AND NORTHWEST FLOW WILL AFFECT MOST OF THE
REGION MORE ON THURSDAY WITH ADDITIONAL CLOUDS AND THURSDAY WILL
AVERAGE TEMPERATURES 5 TO 7 DEGREES COOLER ACROSS THE AREA AND
SOME RAIN AREAS MAY SEE TEMPERATURES EVEN COOLER. TIMING OF ANY
RAIN IS PROBLEMATIC WITH EACH MODEL INDICATING A DIFFERENT PERIOD
AS BEING BETTER THAN OTHERS.
AMPLIFICATION OF WESTERN UPPER FLOW WILL CAUSE A COOLER TREND...
AROUND NORMAL FOR JULY...AND WITH A NORTHWEST FLOW...COULD SEE
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON OCCASION WITH THE USUAL
TIMING PROBLEMS WHICH WILL GO THROUGH THE WEEKEND. USED A BLEND
OF HPC...ECMWF...AND HPC GUIDANCE.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TUL 80 102 79 99 / 30 10 10 20
FSM 76 102 76 99 / 20 10 10 10
MLC 77 101 76 99 / 10 0 10 10
BVO 75 100 74 97 / 30 10 10 30
FYV 73 98 73 97 / 40 10 10 20
BYV 72 96 74 96 / 40 20 10 20
MKO 75 101 74 98 / 20 10 10 20
MIO 76 98 77 94 / 40 10 10 20
F10 77 102 75 98 / 20 10 10 20
HHW 77 100 77 100 / 10 0 10 10
&&
.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 7 PM WEDNESDAY FOR OKZ049-OKZ053-
OKZ054-OKZ055-OKZ056-OKZ057-OKZ058-OKZ059-OKZ060-OKZ061-
OKZ062-OKZ063-OKZ064-OKZ065-OKZ066-OKZ067-OKZ068-OKZ069-
OKZ070-OKZ071-OKZ072-OKZ073-OKZ074-OKZ075-OKZ076.
AR...HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM WEDNESDAY FOR ARZ001-ARZ002-ARZ010-
ARZ011.
EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 7 PM WEDNESDAY FOR ARZ019-ARZ020-
ARZ029.
&&
SHORT TERM...05
LONG TERM....15Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 4:02 PM CST, 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 502 PM CDT MON JUL 13 2009 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-141015- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 502 PM CDT MON JUL 13 2009 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EXTREME EASTERN OKLAHOMA. ADDITIONAL STORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY IN THIS AREA UNTIL AROUND SUNSET WHEN STORMS WILL DISSIPATE WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. DAMAGING WINDS OF GREATER THAN 70 MILES AN HOUR MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AND THERE WILL ALSO BE A THREAT OF SOME LARGE HAIL. OTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NEAR STILLWATER MAY DRIFT EAST INTO PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA BEFORE DISSIPATING THIS EVENING. A LIMITED DAMAGING WIND THREAT WILL EXIST WITH THESE STORMS. DANGEROUS HEAT INDICES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND SUNSET. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK SHOULD ALREADY HAVE OCCURRED WHERE STORMS ARE ONGOING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. TUESDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL REMAIN ANCHORED OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT BACK TO THE WEST AND BUILD NORTH OVER THE ROCKIES LATE THIS WEEK AND THIS WEEKEND...THUS PUTTING THE REGION INTO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. THIS PATTERN WILL AID THE POTENTIAL FOR SURFACE COLD FRONTS TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA...ALONG WITH INCREASING THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ALONG THE BOUNDARY. COOLER WEATHER IS EXPECTED LATE THIS WEEK AND THE WEEKEND. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT... PLANS TO RESPOND TO THE EXCESSIVE HEAT SHOULD REMAIN IN PLACE AT LEAST THROUGH MIDWEEK. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:14 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
- Heat in Nevada, July 13 to 15, 2009
- Tornado and Hail in Wyoming, July 13, 2009
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 13, 2009
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, July 13, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 13, 2009
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 13, 2009
- Flash Flood and Hail in Missouri, July 13, 2009
- High Wind in North Dakota, July 13 to 14, 2009
- High Wind in South Dakota, July 13 to 14, 2009
- Wildfire in Oregon, July 13, 2009
- Hail in Oklahoma, July 13, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 13, 2009
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, July 2009
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: 188719.