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Severe Weather on April 2-4, 2007 (Pg1)
 
The WSR-88D (Doppler Weather Radar) showed scattered severe thunderstorms moving into Pike and Clark Counties from the southwest during the evening of 04/02/2007. Moisture began increasing from the Gulf Coast ahead of a cold front on April 2nd. With well above normal temperatures in place (to energize the atmosphere), a few severe storms flared up in southwest sections of the state during the evening.
In the picture: The WSR-88D (Doppler Weather Radar) showed scattered severe thunderstorms moving into Pike and Clark Counties from the southwest during the evening of 04/02/2007. The storms were accompanied by large (at least penny size) hail.

 

Up to golfball size hail was reported near Billstown (Pike County) and Delight (Pike County). The storms fell apart between 10 and 11 pm CDT with the loss of daytime heating.

 

The aforementioned front arrived on the 3rd/early on the 4th...and with a bang! A northwest wind flow aloft drove the front into Arkansas, with scattered to numerous thunderstorms flaring up.  The weather pattern around 7 pm CDT on 04/03/2007.
In the picture: The weather pattern around 7 pm CDT on 04/03/2007...with a front pushing into the state from the northwest and thunderstorms along the front.

 

Where severe weather occurred on 04/03/2007. There was a lot of hail produced...especially in northern and central Arkansas! Penny to golfball size hail was common, with one report of softball size hail just to the northwest of Pinnacle Mountain in west Little Rock (Pulaski County).
In the picture: Where severe weather occurred on 04/03/2007. The graphic is courtesy of the Storm Prediction Center.

 

Storms were having difficulty developing in Arkansas as of 3 pm CDT on 04/03/2007.
In the picture: Storms were having difficulty developing in Arkansas as of 3 pm CDT on 04/03/2007. A layer of warm air aloft (i.e. inversion) was acting to cap the atmosphere.
By 9 pm CDT, the cap had broken.
In the picture: By 9 pm CDT, the cap had broken. Developing storms pushed from northern into central Arkansas before stalling. 
The hail mainly occurred between 4 pm and 9 pm CDT on the 3rd. As storms reached central sections of the state, they stalled for awhile...and waited for the front to push through. Storms in western Pulaski County lingered for awhile, with up to 4 inches of rain and flash flooding to go along with the hail.

 

More Information
There is more concerning the storms of April 2nd-4th. To check out the rest of the story, click here.
 

 

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