Hail in Union County, Arkansas

Quarter size hail fell at the KTVE/KARD studios in El Dorado.

An upper level low pressure system over the Desert Southwest shifted east through the Intermountain West on May 6th, inducing surface low development over West Texas. This also resulted in a tightening pressure gradient across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley, with increased southerly low level winds allowing for a warm front to shift north to the I-20 corridor of East Texas and North Louisiana before becoming stationary later in the day. A warm, moist, and unstable air mass developed during the 6th south of the front, as large scale forcing increased near and south of the front ahead of the upper trough. As a result, showers and thunderstorms, some of which became severe, developed across East Texas, North Louisiana, and portions of extreme Southern Arkansas. One isolated severe thunderstorm developed over Central Union County Arkansas, producing quarter size hail in El Dorado.