Storm reports for March 23, 2016

On the evening of March 23, 2016, a storm moved from northern Tarrant County, Texas, east into northern Dallas and southern Collin counties, dropping large hail.¹ Golf ball-size hail fell in Lewisville at 8:55 p.m. CST and near Parker Road and the Dallas North Tollway in Plano at 9:15 p.m., where it shattered windows in cars, homes and businesses.^2,1 Hen egg-size hail, 2 inches across, fell in Sachse at 9:37 p.m., and golf ball-size hail broke windows at the Wylie and Murphy border at 9:45 p.m.^3,4 The NWS narrative in NOAA's Storm Events Database puts the overall hail damage from this storm at around $700 million.¹ Earlier, at 8:08 p.m., a brief EF0 tornado crossed US 287 in northern Tarrant County and damaged several storage buildings and two homes.⁵

In northwest Arkansas, an EF2 tornado entered Crawford County at 8:54 p.m. CST and Washington County at 8:59 p.m.^6,7 It destroyed a mobile home in Crawford County, and in Washington County it destroyed several mobile homes and outbuildings and severely damaged two homes.^6,7 Four people were injured, two in each county.^6,7 The database lists $300,000 in property damage in Washington County and $75,000 in Crawford County.^7,6