Flash Flood, Clark
- When
- June 15, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Clark County, Gurdon
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.051, -93.176 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 15, 2003
Street flooding occurred in Gurdon, with a portion of Highway 53 under water as well.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Street flooding occurred in Gurdon, with a portion of Highway 53 under water as well.
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 15, 2:40 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:40 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 340 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 LOCAL RADARS INDICATE WIDELY SCATTERED/SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED AGAIN ACROSS THE CWA. EXPECT SOME DECREASE IN COVERAGE WITH THE LOSS OF SOLAR HEATING. UPPER LOW OVER THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE REGION THROUGH THE SHORT TERM PERIODS...AND WILL PROMOTE CONTINUED UNSETTLED CONDITIONS. EXPECT THE MOST WIDESPREAD CONVECTION TO OCCUR ACROSS THE SOUTH...IN A REGION WITH ENHANCED LOW LEVEL SUPPORT FOR CONVECTION. A WEAK BOUNDARY WILL APPROACH THE REGION FOR WED/THU...AND MAY PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL FOCUS FOR CONVECTIVE INITIATION. MEDIUM RANGE ENSEMBLES FAVOR DRY CONDITIONS AND A WARMING TREND FOR LATE WEEK. HRO 64 83 63 84 / 20 20 20 20 LIT 66 85 65 86 / 30 30 20 20 HOT 67 86 65 86 / 30 30 20 20 PBF 68 86 67 86 / 30 30 20 20 .LZK... 55
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:00 AM CST, 15 hours 15 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS WILL VERY SLOWLY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE FRONT WILL NOT EXIT THE STATE UNTIL MONDAY MORNING. ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL BE THE MAIN FOCUS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE AND A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL OR STRONG WINDS...BUT CONDITIONS ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR ORGANIZED OR LONG LASTING SEVERE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL REMAIN IN THE AREA FOR SEVERAL DAYS WITH OCCASIONAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS MOVING ALONG IT. YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTH ON FRIDAY. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER LOOKS UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME BUT ISOLATED BRIEF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IF AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CAN DEVELOP AND SHOW LITTLE MOVEMENT OR SEVERAL STORMS MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS IN A PERIOD OF SEVERAL HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 51
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:14 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Indiana, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flood in Alabama, June 15, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 15 to 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 15, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 15, 2003
- Wildfire in California, June 15 to 16, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 15, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds and Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, June 15, 2003
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 2003
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: 5362782.