Flash Flood, White
- When
- March 4, 1:45 AM CST
- Where
- White County, Beebe
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.256, -91.745 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Arkansas, March 4, 2001
Excessive rain caused some street flooding in Beebe.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Excessive rain caused some street flooding in Beebe.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 3, 8:25 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 8:25 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 825 PM CST SAT MAR 3 2001 UPDATED FOR CONVECTIVE TRENDS HAVE BEEN SEEING SCATTERED CONVECTION CONTINUE TO FORM OVER PARTS OF SERN AR THE PAST HOUR OR TWO...ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING OUT ERN TX/WRN LA. WENT AHEAD AND UPDATED ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS TREND. REST OF FORECAST LEFT AS IS. ..44.. .LIT...NONE.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:47 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Storm Surge and High Wind in California, March 4, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 4 to 6, 2001
- High Wind in California, March 4 to 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 4 to 7, 2001
- Flooding in Texas, March 4 to 12, 2001
- Flood in Louisiana, March 4 to 26, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, March 4, 2001
- Flooding in Louisiana, March 4 to 12, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, March 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, March 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5236673.