The mini supercells are gradually weakening & will eventually pull away later this evening.
There were several reports of hail. The largest stones in this general region were 0.88″ in diameter or nickel-size & fell near Pine Village to south of Fowler & south & east of Lowell.
The coverage of the lightning is decreasing now.


A couple of these storms were rotating this evening, especially the one in Benton County. In fact, from a radar standpoint, it had a well-formed wall cloud or mesocyclone.
Low-topped, mini-supercell mesocyclones can be hard to pick up. Many times they will put down a brief rope tornado with little, if any, warning. However, the tornadoes are normally in the EF0, to occasional EF1 range.

Here is the velocity couplet showing the rotation over northern Benton County.
Accompanied this cell was largely pea to dime-sized hail. The largest hailstones, at nickel-size, mixed in over southern Benton & northern Warren counties, according to spotters.

Caleb Owens of Fowler captured this pic after the hailstorm.

Mike Riley snapped this picture during the hailstorm in Fowler.

Shelly took this picture of pea- to dime-sized hail on her back deck in Fowler.
One of our spotters, Autumn reported hail up to nickel-sized covered Route 26 near Pine Village for a while. She also stated her husband slid on the slick road!

Autumn was looking into the face of the storm as it moved toward her location to the north.
Here is a pic of the hailstorms face from her Pine Village location as it approaches.

Amanda Mullins took this pic of the pea-sized hail in Attica.

Russell caught this pic of the Fowler hail that looked like snow on the ground from a distance!
An intense downpour of pea- to dime-sized hail mixed some nickel-sized hailstones was reported from northern Fountain to Warren & Benton counties.
Biggest percentage of the nickel-sized stones were just south of Fowler.

I will have another post later this evening……