1 tornado, 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 Nov 1, 3:50 AM CST, 5 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 350 AM CST MON NOV 1 2004 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SOME SCTD SHOWERS NOTED OVER PARTS OF THE FA THIS MRNG...WITH BULK OF CONVECTION NOTED OVR ERN OK AND NWRN AR. INCRSG SLY FLOW HAS ALLOWED HIGHER DEWPOINTS TO ADVECT FURTHER NWD THIS MRNG. CONDS STILL SHAPING UP FOR A SIG HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT ACRS THE AREA LATER TODAY AND TNGT. MODEL SOLUTIONS THIS MRNG HAVE TRENDED A BIT SLOWER WITH OVERALL EWD PROGRESSION OF STORM SYS CURRENTLY TO OUR W. WILL STICK WITH A BLEND OF THE GFS AND ETA FOR THIS FCST. EXPECT AXIS OF HEAVIER RAIN TO WORK SLOLY EWD TODAY...AFFECTING MOST OF THE FA BY LATER THIS AFTN. ACTIVITY WILL CONT DURG THE OVERNIGHT HRS WITH CONTD THREAT OF FLOODING RAINS. HPC HAS A GOOD BIT OF THE AREA OUTLINED FOR HVY RAIN POTENTIAL THRU 12Z TUE. BASED ON ALL OF THIS...WILL EXTEND FF WATCH THRU TNGT FOR THE ENTIRE CWA. LOOKING AT QPF AMOUNTS ON THE ORDER OF 1 TO 3 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER TOTALS. CDFNT IS PROGGED TO ENTER WRN AR THIS EVENING. SEVERAL WAVES ALONG THE BNDRY ARE FCST TO TRACK NEWD INTO TUE...HELPING TO ENHANCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS. THE FNT WILL STALL JUST TO THE SE OF STATE LATE TUE. MEANWHILE...THE UPPER SYS TO FCST TO LIFT NEWD OUT OF TX TUE NIGHT AND WED. THIS WILL AID IN THE FORMATION OF ANOTHER SFC LOW ALONG THE FNT ACRS ERN AR. APPEARS THE CHCS OF STRONG STORMS WILL RMN JUST TO OUR E WHERE MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL BE. THE EVENTUAL TRACK WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY. UPPER LOW IS FCST TO TRACK TO THE W OF AR WED. WL NEED TO KEEP RAIN CHCS IN FOR MUCH OF WED. COULD SEE SOME DRIER AIR WORK INTO SWRN AR LATE IN THE DAY. MUCH COOLER AIR WILL WORK IN BEHIND THE SYS BY WED EVENING. && .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY THE EXTENDED FORECAST WILL BE DRY. THE UPPER LOW WILL SLIDE EAST OF THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND TAKE PRECIPITATION CHANCES WITH IT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY. HOWEVER...A QUICK MOVING COLD FRONT WILL CLIP THE NORTH PART OF THE STATE THURSDAY NIGHT. THIS IS ANTICIPATED TO MOVE THROUGH DRY SINCE IT WILL SEVERELY LACK MOISTURE. AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS THURSDAY NIGHT WILL BE THE MAIN RESULT OF THE PASSING FRONT. HIGH PRESSURE AND VERY DRY AIR RETURN FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ANOTHER COLD FRONT ARRIVES ON SUNDAY FROM THE NORTH. WILL NOT INCLUDE POPS FOR SUNDAY AT THIS TIME AS MOISTURE IS AGAIN LIMITED. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL BE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLOOD WATCH FROM 400 AM CST MONDAY UNTIL 600 AM CST TUESDAY FOR ZONES ARZ003>007...ARZ012>016... ARZ021>025...ARZ030>034...ARZ037>047...ARZ052>057...ARZ062>069. 44/51
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT MON NOV 1 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-021100- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 500 AM CDT MON NOV 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE WARM FRONT HAS NOW MOVED INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE OVERSPREAD ARKANSAS. A COLD FRONT REMAINS IN WESTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP IN THIS WARM SECTOR. THE LARGE AREA OF RAIN IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING AND WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST DURING THE DAY AND THROUGH TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD SOAKING RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT AND THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH TONIGHT. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OVER 4 INCHES. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT TODAY...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTH AND EAST SECTIONS OF THE STATE. STRONG WINDS ARE THE MAIN CONCERN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY THROUGH THE STATE AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BY TUESDAY MORNING. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING BEFORE SLOWLY TAPERING OFF FROM WEST TO EAST BY WEDNESDAY. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO STALL BRIEFLY OVER SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS WITH A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING ON IT. THIS WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ON TUESDAY BUT MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE STATE. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL PASS OVER NORTH ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...BRINGING MORE RAINS TO THE AREA. THE MAJORITY OF THE DEEP MOISTURE WILL BE SHUNTED EAST BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON HOWEVER. THE RAINFALL WILL COME TO AN END BY LATE WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD INTO THE STATE AND SWEEP THIS SYSTEM WELL TO THE EAST AND MUCH DRIER AIR WILL FILTER IN BEHIND THE SYSTEM...WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES RETURNING TO THE STATE. PEOPLE ARE URGED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER TODAY AND TUESDAY. MANY AREAS IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS HAVE RECEIVED 7 TO 10 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL ONLY INUNDATE AN ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. MONITOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD CREATE FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS...AND RISES ON LOCAL RIVERS AND STREAMS. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS WILL ALSO NEED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION...AS FARM LANDS NEAR RIVER BANKS ARE LIKELY TO FLOOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. 51
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:52 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado touched down north of Stephens and moved to the northeast about 6 miles before lifting. Most of the damage along the path of the tornado consisted of hundreds of downed trees. Several power poles were also broken off.
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