Hail in Lafayette County, Arkansas

Golf ball size hail reported at Holly Mound just north of Stamps.

Numerous supercell thunderstorms developed late in the evening on April 25th into the early morning hours on April 26th along a warm front extending from southern Oklahoma into western Arkansas, well ahead of an advancing cold front and dry line upstream over the Texas/Oklahoma panhandles. The environment farther downstream across Northeast Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and extreme North Louisiana was very unstable and strongly sheared. This environment favored a continuation of severe thunderstorms and the potential for new supercell development. Nocturnal low-level cooling and capping were increasing, which generally kept the primary threat as large hail. As a result, a few large hail reports were documented across Lafayette County in Southwest Arkansas early on April 26th.