Hail, Union
- When
- March 28, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, 2.97 mi WSW of Nick Spgs
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.190, -92.600
Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, March 28, 2014
A frontal boundary pulled up stationary across portions of Southwest Arkansas into Southeast Oklahoma during the daytime hours. A very unstable airmass developed south of the boundary with CAPE values approaching 4000 J/KG and Lifted Indices near -10.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 7
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 SHV wrote it up.
A frontal boundary pulled up stationary across portions of Southwest Arkansas into Southeast Oklahoma during the daytime hours. A very unstable airmass developed south of the boundary with CAPE values approaching 4000 J/KG and Lifted Indices near -10. While low level shear was weak in the warm sector, deep layer shear was in excess of 50kts and with the help of a strong upper level trough moving out of Central Texas, severe thunderstorms developed across the region during the afternoon and evening hours of March 28th. Strong lapse rates initially resulted in hail producing thunderstorms, some of which took on the appearance of supercell thunderstorms. Later in the evening, a squall line developed with widespread wind damage noted across the southern half of Northeast Texas and Northern Louisiana.
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 Mar 28, 1:56 PM CST, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 1:56 PM CST, 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 256 PM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014 .DISCUSSION... QUICK UPDATE TO ZONES COMING OUT TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 37 TO INCLUDE OUR COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...AND FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 82 53 73 45 75 / 70 60 0 0 0 MLU 80 55 71 43 73 / 70 70 0 0 0 DEQ 75 46 71 38 74 / 70 40 0 0 0 TXK 78 50 71 44 73 / 70 50 0 0 0 ELD 79 53 71 40 72 / 70 70 0 0 0 TYR 82 49 73 45 78 / 70 20 0 0 0 GGG 82 50 73 43 77 / 70 30 0 0 0 LFK 83 54 77 44 77 / 70 60 0 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 06
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1100 AM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-291100- 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- 1100 AM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND EAST AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND SPREAD ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION...AHEAD OF A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...THAT WILL SHIFT EAST ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL BE IN PLACE...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY DEVELOPING BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT...WILL ADD TO THE INSTABILITY WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT...ALONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CAN SPIN UP. LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL ORGANIZE INTO CLUSTERS AND RACE RAPIDLY EAST OUT OF THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION. 06
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 12:01 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
101 PM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014
ARZ060-281830-
HEMPSTEAD-
101 PM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
HEMPSTEAD...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
MCCASKILL...
AT 1259 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
19Special weather statement, Mar 28, 12:32 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
132 PM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014
ARZ061-281900-
NEVADA-
132 PM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
NEVADA...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
PRESCOTT...
AT 129 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PRESCOTT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
19Special weather statement, Mar 28, 2:35 PM CST, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
335 PM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014
TXZ097-109-111-282100-
BOWIE-MORRIS-TITUS-
335 PM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
MORRIS...TITUS AND BOWIE...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
COOKVILLE...DALBY SPRINGS...NAPLES...OMAHA...SIMMS AND US 259
AND I 30 INTERSECTION...
AT 333 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COOKVILLE...OR 7 MILES EAST OF
MOUNT PLEASANT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
19The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:46 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Miller
- When
- March 28, 3:59 PM CST
- Where
- Miller County, 2.21 mi NE of Texarkana
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 33.450, -94.020
Trees and powerlines downed in Texarkana.
Hail, Hempstead
- When
- March 28, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Hempstead County, 0.58 mi E of Hope
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- State Official
- Coordinates
- 33.670, -93.590
Thunderstorm Wind, Columbia
- When
- March 28, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Columbia County, 0.58 mi W of Magnolia
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- State Official
- Coordinates
- 33.270, -93.240
Numerous trees downed including some downed on Hwy. 79.
Hail, Union
- When
- March 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, 1.5 mi NNW of Ritchie
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.300, -92.560
Hail, Union
- When
- March 28, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, Smith
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.150, -92.630
Half dollar size hail fell on South Jackson Avenue near Hwy. 167 south of El Dorado.
Thunderstorm Wind, Union
- When
- March 28, 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, 0.9 mi NE of Strong
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.110, -92.360
Several trees and powerlines were downed in the Strong community.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Winter Storm in California, March 28 to 30, 2014
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 28, 2014
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, March 28, 2014
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 28, 2014
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, March 28, 2014
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, March 28, 2014
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Arkansas, March 28, 2014
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, March 28, 2014
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Florida, March 28, 2014
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, March 28, 2014
- Strong Wind in Georgia, March 28, 2014
- Hail in Texas, March 28, 2014
More
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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 497861, 497869, 497872, 497893, 497906, 498068, 498073.