1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 25, 3:00 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 400 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2002 MCS ADVERTISED BY MODELS THE LAST TWO DAYS HAS DEVELOPED BUT IS NOT AS WIDESPREAD AND APPEARS TO BE MOVING SOUTHWEST OF WHERE IT WAS PROGGED. THAT MUCH COMES AS NO SURPRISE. MAIN CHALLENGE FOR THE FORECAST IS TO FIGURE OUT HOW THIS WILL EVOLVE THROUGH THE MORNING AND LATER TODAY. LOOKS LIKE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES WILL GET MOST OF THE RAIN THIS MORNING AND INTO SOUTHERN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHERN SECTIONS, WHICH LOOKED LIKE THEY WOULD GET HIT THE HARDEST ORIGINALLY, WILL LIKELY ESCAPE WITH ONLY SOME WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. PRESSURE PATTERN SUGGESTS COLD FRONT IS INTO NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS WITH THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AT ISSUE TIME ALONG OR JUST NORTH OF IT. FRONT SHOULD SLOWLY MOVE SOUTH MAINLY FROM CONVECTIVE INFLUENCES BUT WILL BE HELPED BY INCREASING NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AS CLOSED LOW DEVELOPS TO THE EAST OF THE AREA. WILL GO WITH 20 PERCENT POPS IN THE NORTH FOR TODAY AND 50 PERCENT ELSEWHERE, WITH CHANCES DECREASING THIS AFTERNOON. FRONT, OR OUTFLOW BOUNDARY, SHOULD BE SOUTH OF THE STATE AROUND 00Z, AND MOST OF THE RAINFALL SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA. WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE IN FOR THE SOUTHERN ZONES FOR EARLY TONIGHT IN CASE FRONT OR CONVECTION IS SLOWER MOVING OUT THAN EXPECTED. SOME MOISTURE REMAINS IN THE AREA INTO MONDAY BUT UPPER LOW WILL BE CLOSING OFF EAST OF THE AREA AND NO SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVES ARE INDICATED AFFECTING THIS CWA. MOS AND SPC DAY TWO GUIDANCE INDICATE LITTLE CHANCE OF RAIN FOR MONDAY, SO WILL DROP MENTION OF RAIN FOR MONDAY. PATTERN CHANGES LITTLE THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH A WEAK SURFACE RIDGE FROM THE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. WILL DROP POPS THROUGH FRIDAY, ALTHOUGH FIVE STRAIGHT DRY DAYS IN ARKANSAS WITH THIS UPPER LEVEL PATTERN IS RARE. AVN SHOWS A SHORT WAVE COMING AROUND BY SATURDAY, SO WILL KEEP THE SMALL POPS IN FOR THEN. TEMPS WILL BE SLOW TO RISE IN MANY AREAS THIS MORNING, ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES, BUT CLOUDS SHOULD DECREASE BY AFTERNOON TO ALLOW SOME LATE HEATING. WILL GO A LITTLE BELOW MOS ON MAXES. TEMP FORECASTS FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK WERE KEPT ABOUT THE SAME AS ON THE PREVIOUS PACKAGE. .LZK...NONE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
329 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2002
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0315 AM DANVILLE AR 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/25/02 YELL
56The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains caused some flash flooding to occur in Yellville. Several streets in town were covered by high water for a short period of time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, August 2002
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