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 11, 2:57 AM CST, 10 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 357 AM CDT MON AUG 11 2003 SKIES HAVE GENERALLY BEEN PARTLY CLOUDY ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. IR SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW AN MCS JUST GETTING INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND CONTINUING TO MOVE SOUTH. AS A RESULT OF THIS MCS MOVING SOUTH AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXPECTED AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM...THE GREATEST CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION TODAY WILL BE IN OUR WESTERN COUNTIES. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE MOVES SOUTH NEAR OKLAHOMA BORDER THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL BRING A SECOND CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WILL GO A CHANCE IN THE WESTERN HALF TODAY AND A SLIGHT CHANCE ELSEWHERE. ALOFT...HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS TO THE WEST AND LOW PRESSURE REMAINS EAST OF ARKANSAS. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE RETROGRATION OF THE LOW. THIS LOW WILL MOVE WEST ACROSS ARKANSAS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS KEEPING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEK. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING A BIT COOL. WENT A COUPLE DEGREES WARMER FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. HRO 87 62 85 67 / 30 20 30 30 LIT 90 71 90 70 / 20 20 30 30 HOT 90 73 89 70 / 30 20 30 30 PBF 91 69 91 69 / 20 20 30 30 .LZK...NONE. 51
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-121000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT MON AUG 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SEVERAL WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN ARKANSAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA TODAY AND TONIGHT. WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PREVAIL. THE BEST CHANCES OF SEEING SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL BE OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING AND ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. UNSETTLED WEATHER IS LIKELY FROM TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTHEAST BY EARLY TUESDAY. THIS LOW WILL TRACK WESTWARD ACROSS THE STATE AND TAKE UP POSITION IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS BY THURSDAY EVENING. WITH THE LOW TRACKING OVERHEAD AND NUMEROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THE FEATURE...LOOK FOR A CONTINUING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED BUT A FEW INDIVIDUAL CELLS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 56
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:43 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains caused street flooding in parts of Hot Springs. Several streets in the city were closed due to high water for a few hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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