Arkansas, 2010

Hail in Arkansas, January 24, 2010

January 24, 2010 · NWS MEG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A cold front moved into the Mid-South during the late afternoon on January 24th, 2010. Showers and a few thunderstorms developed along the front.

Where it happened

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  • 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 happened

The episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.

A cold front moved into the Mid-South during the late afternoon on January 24th, 2010. Showers and a few thunderstorms developed along the front. A few thunderstorms produced pea to penny size hail.

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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 24, 3:54 PM CST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 3:54 PM CST, 26 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 24, 4:14 PM CST, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
414 PM CST SUN JAN 24 2010

ARZ036-048-MSZ001-TNZ088-242300-
ST. FRANCIS AR-CRITTENDEN AR-DE SOTO MS-SHELBY TN-
414 PM CST SUN JAN 24 2010

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR...

  CENTRAL CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  EXTREME NORTHWESTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
  SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND
WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED FROM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEEMAN
SHELBY FOREST STATE PARK TO 4 MILES EAST OF NEW HOME AT 414 PM CST...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN...DESOTO...SHELBY AND ST. FRANCIS COUNTIES...
INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR BARTLETT...MARION...MEEMAN SHELBY FOREST
STATE PARK...MIDTOWN MEMPHIS...MILLINGTON AND WEST MEMPHIS...SHOULD
MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO
INCLUDES BRANDYWINE LAKE...LAKE MCKELLAR AND ROBCO LAKE.

BORGHOFF

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:19 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Crittenden

When
January 24, 4:20 PM CST to 4:30 PM CST
Where
Crittenden County, West Memphis
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
Law Enforcement
Coordinates
35.150, -90.180

Pea to penny size hail fell in West Memphis.

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

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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: 211282.