Name: Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 10, 2002
Start: 2002-06-10T11:00
End: 2002-06-10T14:30
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
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 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 Jun 10, 9:56 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 9:56 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1056 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

LATEST SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW EXTENSIVE LOW CLOUDS OVER MUCH OF THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. QUESTION IS...WILL LOW
CLOUDS BREAK ENOUGH TO ALLOW TEMPS TO WARM HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY
THOUGHT. HAVE SEEN SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUD DECK OVER THE LAST
SEVERAL HOURS. WILL RAISE MAXES A BIT...80 TO 85 NORTH...UPPER 80S
CENTRAL...AND 85 TO 90 SOUTH.

I WILL UPDATE TO REMOVE FOG AND ASSOCIATED MORNING WORDING. WINDS
HAVE PICKED UP SPEED TO MIX THINGS OUT MORE. STILL LOWER VISBYS
(5-6SM) IN SOME SPOTS...BUT THIS WILL IMPROVE.

AS FAR AS POPS...WILL REDUCE SOUTHERN ZONES TO 50 PERCENT. WILL
RAISE NORTHERN GROUPS TO 60 PERCENT AS THE BULK OF THE ACTIVITY WILL
BE IN THIS AREA.

UPDATE WILL BE OUT MOMENTARILY.

FCSTID = 57

.LZK...NONE.

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Boone

When: June 10, 11:00 AM CST to 2:30 PM CST
Where: Boone County, Harrison
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 36.309, -93.091 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rainfall occurred over parts of Boone County and resulted in flash flooding in and around the Harrison area. Up to 3 inches of rain fell in Harrison in about 2 hours, with reports of as much as 5 to 6 inches of rain in the Batavia area. Highway 392 was covered by high water near Batavia. Bear Creek went out if it's banks, about 6 miles northwest of Harrison, and covered two lanes of U.S. Highway 65 at the Bear Creek Springs community. Also at Bear Creek Springs, five people had to be rescued from flooded businesses near the creek. One person who was rescued was taken to the hospital for treatment of a laceration. A nearby campground was also flooded.

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.

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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: 5302049.