1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 12, 2:55 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 355 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 LOTS OF RAIN OVERNIGHT ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...WITH WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING. WEAKENING BOW ECHO HEADING INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE EARLY THIS MORNING. THE BOW WILL ACT AS THE BACK EDGE OF PRECIPITATION...WITH RAIN PRETTY MUCH ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST THIS MORNING. RAIN WILL NOT END FOR LONG. LOOKS LIKE WEATHER PATTERN WILL NOT CHANGE MUCH IN THE COMING DAYS. SYSTEMS ALOFT FROM PLAINS WILL TAP INTO MOIST/UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS ARKANSAS...WITH SEVERAL PERIODS OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. APPEARS THAT STORMS WILL BRING SPOTTY SEVERE WEATHER AT TIMES. ALSO...PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OVER 1.50 INCHES. THIS WILL MAKE STORMS MORE EFFICIENT RAIN PRODUCERS...AND FLASH FLOODING CERTAINLY A POSSIBILITY. WILL HAVE TO MONITOR INCOMING SYSTEMS FOR PLACEMENT OF FLASH FLOOD WATCHES IF NECESSARY. OTHERWISE...TYPICAL SPRING-LIKE PATTERN WITH LATE NIGHT/MORNING THUNDER FOLLOWED BY CLEARING/WARMING IN THE AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES FAIRLY TYPICAL FOR MID-JUNE...WITH DAYTIME READINGS IN 80S/NEAR 90 WITH MID 60S/LOWER 70S AT NIGHT. FCSTID = 46 HRO 84 68 83 66 / 60 50 50 40 LIT 88 71 88 71 / 70 40 50 40 HOT 88 71 88 70 / 60 50 50 40 PBF 88 72 88 72 / 70 30 40 40 .LZK...NONE.
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-131000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 610 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. MOVEMENT WILL BE FROM WEST TO EAST AND SHOULD BEGIN TAPERING OFF AROUND MID MORNING. ZONAL FLOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA WHICH WILL ALLOW ANOTHER SYSTEM TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTH TEXAS WILL ALLOW A WARM FRONT TO ROTATE UP FROM THE SOUTH TONIGHT. THIS WILL KEEP COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE OVER THE AREA. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THIS PATTERN OF UNSETTLED WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE DAYS. A STALLED FRONT NEAR THE ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI BORDER WILL MEANDER FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE MOVING TO THE NORTH. YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE PLAINS OVER THE WEEKEND BEFORE STALLING ACROSS THE REGION. GIVEN THE PATTERN... CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE MENTIONED IN THE FORECAST THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. SPOTTY SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED IN THE COMING DAYS...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO LIKELY...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT...WITH SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARKANSAS. 51
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
655 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 AM 5 N GURDON AR FLASH FLOOD
06/12/03 CLARK HIGHWAY 53 FROM OAK GROVE
TO JUST NORTH OF GURDON
UNDER WATER IN PLACES.
HIGHWAY BARRICADED AS A
RESULT. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
0300 AM GURDON AR FLASH FLOOD
06/12/03 CLARK HOMES AND BUSINESSES FLOODED
IN TOWN. SEVERAL ROADS IN AND
AROUND TOWN UNDER WATER. AT
LEAST 3 FAMILIES EVACUATED
FROM HOMES DUE TO HIGH WATER.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0300 AM ARKADELPHIA AR FLASH FLOOD
06/12/03 CLARK FEW HOMES AND BUSINESSES
FLOODED ON THE SOUTH SIDE
OF TOWN. WATER COVERING A
COUPLE OF ROADS AS WELL.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0600 AM 1 W AMITY AR FLASH FLOOD
06/12/03 CLARK HIGHWAY 8 WASHED OUT NEAR
THE CLARK AND PIKE COUNTY
LINE. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
46The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:00 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains flooded several roads in and around Thornton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 2003
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