Hail in Oklahoma, April 11, 2016

Name: Hail in Oklahoma, April 11, 2016
Start: 2016-04-11T14:25
End: 2016-04-11T14:25
Location: Oklahoma

April 11, 2016 · NWS SHV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Where it happened

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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 SHV wrote it up.

An outflow boundary from showers and thunderstorms that developed over Southwest Oklahoma during the evening and overnight hours on April 10th became stationary over Northern McCurtain County Oklahoma into the adjacent sections of Western Arkansas during the early morning hours of April 11th. This boundary focused scattered shower and thunderstorm development through the morning of the 11th, with large scale forcing enhanced especially during the afternoon and evening hours as a weak upper level trough traversed the Red River Valley of Southern Oklahoma/North Texas into Southwest Arkansas. Afternoon heating and cooling temperatures aloft ahead of this disturbance contributed to moderate instability developing especially over Southeast Oklahoma, Northeast Texas, and portions of Southwest Arkansas, contributing to the development of several severe thunderstorms over these areas. One isolated severe thunderstorm containing golfball size hail moved east across Northern McCurtain County Oklahoma and over the community of Battiest. This severe storm would eventually move into Southern Polk County Arkansas.

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 Apr 11, 2:23 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 2:23 PM CST, 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
323 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

.DISCUSSION...
MULTIPLE AREAS OF CONVECTION CONTINUE ACROSS OUR REGION AND THOSE
ADJACENT. INITIAL WAVE THAT AFFECTED OUR NRN PORTIONS ALONG A
STALLED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY OVER THE LAST
HOUR OR SO. TSTMS ACROSS SRN OK AND ACROSS DEEP E TX SEEM TO BE
BEING AIDED BY SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS TX...ALTHOUGH EACH IS
WORKING WITH DIFFERENT SFC FEATURES. OK STORMS FORMING ALONG
DEVELOPING COLD FRONT...WHILE FURTHER S THE STORMS SEEM TO BE
WORKING ON THE EDGE OF THE ENTRAINING DRY MID LEVEL AIR. EXPECT
FOR MORE STORMS TO DEVELOP/MOVE INTO OUR REGION LATER THIS
AFTERNOON/TONIGHT WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS...AND ISOLD TORNADOES AS THE SHORTWAVE PUSHES EWD. SVR
WATCHES 84 AND 85 REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM AND 9 PM
RESPECTIVELY...AND WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF SOME PORTION OF THE
WATCH NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED TO SEE US THROUGH THE END OF THE EVENT.
CONVECTION SHOULD BE WINDING DOWN/MOVING OUT OF OUR REGION BY
AROUND MIDNIGHT...AS THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING EVENTUALLY DIMINISHES
AVAILABLE INSTABILITY.

COOLER TEMPS EXPECTED FOR TUE/WED IN THE WAKE OF TODAY'S COLD
FRONT. HOWEVER...VERY LITTLE RECOVERY IS EXPECTED AS THE SHORTWAVE
MOVES EWD AND ANOTHER TROF APPROACHES FROM THE W. SHWRS/TSTMS WILL
MOVE BACK INTO THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE TO BE
POSSIBLE THROUGH MUCH OF THURSDAY BEFORE THE SLOW-MOVING TROF
MOVES INTO THE MID MS VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY.

SLY FLOW AT THE SFC WILL KEEP OUR TEMPS NEAR NORMAL FOR THE END OF
THE WORK WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER SLOW-MOVING CLOSED
UPPER LOW WILL DRIFT EWD INTO THE NM AND BRING SHWRS/TSTMS TO THE
REGION ONCE AGAIN FOR THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WORK WEEK. MODEL
SOLUTIONS DIVERGE JUST BEYOND THE SEVEN DAY PD...SO LOOK FOR POPS
TO REMAIN CONSERVATIVE UNTIL THESE SOLUTIONS COME INTO BETTER
AGREEMENT. /12/

&&

AVIATION...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS AREA TERMINALS
AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. CEILINGS TO TRANSITION TO
MVFR/IFR AFTER 12/00Z WITH -TSRA CONDITIONS CONTINUING OVERNIGHT.
EXPECT IMPROVING CONDITIONS AFTER 12/12Z. OTHERWISE...SOUTH TO
SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 10 TO 15 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS TO BECOME
NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT INTO TUESDAY. /05/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  59  68  52  69 /  60  10  50  40
MLU  58  67  52  69 /  80  20  30  40
DEQ  53  67  47  67 /  80   0  30  20
TXK  53  66  49  67 /  70  10  40  20
ELD  52  66  49  67 /  80  10  20  20
TYR  58  68  53  69 /  40  10  60  40
GGG  58  68  52  69 /  40  10  60  40
LFK  65  74  56  70 /  40  20  60  40

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 11, 9:40 AM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1040 AM CDT MON APR 11 2016

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-
TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-121545-
SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE-
COLUMBIA-UNION-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-DE SOTO-
RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE-NATCHITOCHES-WINN-
GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-
MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-
PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE-
1040 AM CDT MON APR 11 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND
NORTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP...INCREASING
IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. SEVERE STORMS
ARE LIKELY AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS...AND A FEW TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

FOR MIDWEEK...ANOTHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EASTWARD BRINGING MORE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...MAINLY ALONG
AND SOUTH OF I 20. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE
WEEKEND AS WELL...AS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE APPROACHES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO
OPERATORS AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 11, 12:42 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
142 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0110 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GARLAND                 33.36N  93.71W
04/11/2016                   MILLER             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS THE EASTER
            PART OF THE COUNTY.

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600308

27

Local storm report, Apr 11, 12:49 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
149 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0145 PM     TSTM WND DMG     TEXARKANA               33.45N  94.02W
04/11/2016                   MILLER             AR   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            THE CITY OF TEXARKANA HAS RECEIVED LOST OF DAMAGE DUE
            TO STRAIGHT LINES WINDS. LARGE TREE LIMBS GREATER THAN 2
            INCHES SNAPPED OFF WITH NICKEL SIZE HAIL SOME MINOR
            STREET FLOODING OVER AN ICH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 45
            MINUTES.

0145 PM     HAIL             TEXARKANA               33.45N  94.02W
04/11/2016  E0.88 INCH       MILLER             AR   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            THE CITY OF TEXARKANA HAS RECEIVED LOST OF DAMAGE DUE
            TO STRAIGHT LINES WINDS. LARGE TREE LIMBS GREATER THAN 2
            INCHES SNAPPED OFF WITH NICKEL SIZE HAIL SOME MINOR
            STREET FLOODING OVER AN ICH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 45
            MINUTES.

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600309
EVENT NUMBER SHV1600310

27

Local storm report, Apr 11, 1:04 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
204 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0158 PM     HAIL             EL DORADO               33.22N  92.66W
04/11/2016  E1.25 INCH       UNION              AR   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            EL DORADO CORONER REPORTS HAIL HALF DOLLAR SIZE IN THE
            CITY.

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600311

27

Local storm report, Apr 11, 1:06 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
206 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0202 PM     HAIL             EL DORADO               33.22N  92.66W
04/11/2016  E0.88 INCH       UNION              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            CITY POLICE REPORT PEA TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY
            RAIN

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600312

27

Local storm report, Apr 11, 1:25 PM CST, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
225 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0215 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MAGNOLIA                33.27N  93.24W
04/11/2016                   COLUMBIA           AR   PUBLIC

            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN MEMORIAL PARK DRIVE AND
            HIGHWAY 82

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600313

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Special weather statement, Apr 11, 2:11 PM CST, 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
311 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

ARZ051-OKZ077-112100-
HOWARD AR-MCCURTAIN OK-
311 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN HOWARD AND NORTHERN
MCCURTAIN COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 310 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTHEAST OF NASHOBA...OR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLAYTON...MOVING
EAST AT 50 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WICKES...MOUNT HERMAN...PLUNKETVILLE...BATTIEST...WATSON...PICKENS...
BETHEL...SHERWOOD AND SMITHVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...AND SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3451 9446 3430 9447 3431 9426 3436 9425
      3436 9418 3425 9418 3425 9424 3430 9426
      3429 9447 3424 9447 3422 9515 3424 9515
      3425 9505 3451 9505
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 260DEG 44KT 3439 9515

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The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:27 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, McCurtain

When: April 11, 2:25 PM CST
Where: McCurtain County, 0.51 mi SE of Battiest
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 34.394, -94.925

Golfball size hail was reported in Battiest.

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 Oklahoma in 2016 Every state in 2016 This day in weather history Warnings in Oklahoma, April 2016

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: 619877.