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 May 10, 3:00 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 400 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002 THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN COUNTIES THIS MORNING ALONG 850 FRONT AND WHERE SOME WARM ADVECTION CONTINUES. THIS DECREASES LATER TODAY, BUT OVERRUNNING PATTERN CONTINUES WITH THE FRONT NEARLY STATIONARY JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA. FIGURE ON NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TODAY WITH THE BEST COVERAGE IN THE SOUTH. INTENSITY LIKELY WILL DECREASE AS SHORT WAVE MOVES PAST THE AREA AND AIR MASS LIKELY WILL BE WORKED OVER FROM OVERNIGHT STORMS. FRONT WILL BEGIN MOVING NORTH TONIGHT AND SATURDAY, BUT IT WILL LIKELY TAKE UNTIL SOMETIME SATURDAY BEFORE IT IS NORTH OF THE AREA. MAIN MOISTURE AXIS TRANSLATES NORTH AND BETTER POPS SHOULD SHIFT TO THE NORTH FOR TONIGHT. WILL KEEP POPS IN CHANCE CATEGORY FOR TONIGHT. WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS IN THE NORTH FOR SATURDAY DUE TO PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT, BUT FEEL THE REST OF THE CWA WILL BE CAPPED TOO MUCH FOR ANY CHANCE OF RAIN. WILL CONTINUE THIS INTO SUNDAY. COLD FRONT REACHES NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS LATE SUNDAY, AND WILL PUT A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA DUE TO THAT BUT WILL KEEP MENTION OF PRECIPITATION OUT FOR OTHER AREAS FOR NOW. AVN BRINGS COLD FRONT ACROSS STATE SUNDAY NIGHT, AND COULD SEE SQUALL LINE MOVE ACROSS STATE OR A SCENARIO SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY MORNING WITH SOME BOW ECHOES OR ISOLATED SUPERCELLS. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS FOR THE WHOLE AREA FOR SUNDAY NIGHT FOR NOW. MAXES TODAY LIKELY WILL NOT BE MUCH ABOVE TEMPS AT FORECAST TIME AND WILL GO CLOSE TO FWC MOS. TEMPS SHOULD FALL LITTLE TONIGHT, AND COULD SEE SLOW RISE IN TEMPS LATE TONIGHT IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS AS THE WARM FRONT MOVES THROUGH, OR REDEVLOPS TO THE NORTH. TEMPS SATURDAY WILL LIKELY RISE BACK INTO THE 80S IN MOST AREAS, BUT WILL HOLD TEMPS DOWN A LITTLE IN THE NORTH. .LZK...NONE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
740 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002
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0400 AM OWENSVILLE AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/10/02 SALINE REPORTED BY COOP OBSERVERThe Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:38 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur over parts of Calhoun County. Several county roads were covered by high water for several hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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