Hail — Scott, Arkansas

2025-04-05 · near Waldron, Scott, Arkansas

Event narrative

Baseball-sized hail fell in the city of Waldron. Multiple police cruisers sustained substantial damage from the hail via window and frame damage from media pictures.

Wider weather episode

Severe weather, including widespread flash flooding occurred over a five day period across the entire state. This multiday event featured tornadoes, damaging winds, and very large hail. But by far and large, flash flooding and river flooding were the biggest impacts taken away from this unsettled period of weather due to total rainfall amounts between half a foot to over one foot in many locations.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1265085. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.