Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 22, 2005

Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 22, 2005
Start: 2005-07-22T21:40
End: 2005-07-22T21:40
Location: Arkansas

July 22, 2005 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 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 Jul 22, 1:50 PM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:50 PM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
250 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT
UPPER RDG HAS INCRSD ITS INFLUENCE ACRS MUCH OF THE FA THIS
AFTN...WITH MOST TEMPS WELL INTO THE 90S. A FEW LOCATIONS HAVE
TOPPED THE CENTURY MARK WHERE DRIER AIR HAS BEEN ABLE TO MIX DOWN. A
FEW SHOWERS HAVE FORMED OVR THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF W-CNTRL AR THIS
AFTN. THIS ACTIVITY WILL DIE ARND SUNSET AND WL NOT HAVE ANY RAIN
MENTIONED TNGT.

UPPER RDG IS PROGGED TO PERSIST OVR AR THIS WEEKEND. EXPECT MAX
TEMPS ON SAT TO BE A REPEAT TODAY AND AGAIN ON SUN AS UPPER RDG
CENTER RMNS IN THE VCNTY. WARMEST READINGS EXPECT TO OCCUR WHERE
LESSER AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL HAVE OCCURRED THE PAST WEEK...RESULTING
IN DRIER SOIL CONDITIONS. WL EXTEND HEAT ADVY THRU SUN FOR LOCATIONS
MAINLY ALONG AND S OF THE AR RIVER VALLEY.

SOME RETURN IN MOISTURE IS NOTED FOR LATER SUN AND MONDAY. HAVE LEFT
SMALL AFTN AND EARLY EVENING POPS FOR MAINLY S AR FOR THE TIME
BEING. DID LOWER MAX TEMPS A FEW DEGREES FOR MON WITH MORE CLOUDS
EXPECTED AS BETTER RETURN FLOW SETS UP AND CENTER OF UPPER RDG
SLIDES EWD.
&&

.LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
MODELS CONTINUE TO BE IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE SYNOPTIC SCALE BUT
THE DEVIL REMAINS IN THE DETAILS WITH SMALLER SCALE FEATURES NOT IN
THE BEST AGREEMENT OR SHOWING THE BEST CONTINUITY. GFS CONTINUES TO
BE MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH DRIVING A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA
WEDNESDAY WITH THE DGEX MUCH SLOWER. DGEX SOLUTION HAS THE FRONT
WAFFLING AROUND NORTH ARKANSAS/SOUTHERN MISSOURI FOR SEVERAL DAYS
BEFORE IT LIMPS THROUGH LATE FRIDAY. THIS SCENARIO MAKES MORE SENSE
WITH HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE EAST COAST. SOLUTION ALSO IN DECENT
AGREEMENT WITH THE OTHER MODELS AND AS SUCH IS THE PREFERRED CHOICE.

THE PERIOD BEGINS WITH HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE EAST COAST AND OVER
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WITH BROAD TROFFING OVER THE NATIONS MID SECTION
AND A STRONG UPPER LOW MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL CANADA. AS UPPER FLOW
BUCKLES EARLY IN THE PERIOD...MODELS TRY TO DRIVE A COLD FRONT
THROUGH THE AREA TOWARDS THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK. BASED ON THE
UPPER FLOW ALOFT...FRONT EXPECTED TO WAFFLE AROUND NORTHERN ARKANSAS
OR SOUTHERN MISSOURI BEFORE SLOWLY SAGGING SOUTH BUT STILL ONLY
REACHING THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE BY LATE FRIDAY.

WITH FRONT IN THE GENERAL AREA THE MAJORITY OF THE PERIOD...WILL
NEED TO KEEP AT LEAST SCATTERED POPS IN THE FORECAST. WITH NO MUCH
UNCERTAINTY IN THE FINER DETAILS...WILL NOT TRY TO TIME THE
INDIVIDUAL WAVES MOVING THROUGH THE MEAN FLOW AND GO WITH MORE OF A
BROAD BRUSH APPROACH.

CONCERNING TEMPERATURES....INCREASED MOISTURE AND CLOUD COVER WILL
KNOCK DOWN TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES FROM THE STEAMY HIGHS EXPECTED
OVER THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE PRETTY CLOSE TO NORMAL
THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WITH NO WHOLE SCALE CHANGES EXPECTED.
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES...ARZ021...ARZ022...ARZ030...ARZ031...ARZ032...ARZ033...
ARZ034....ARZ037...ARZ038...ARZ039...ARZ040...ARZ041...ARZ042...
ARZ043...ARZ044...ARZ045...ARZ046...ARZ047...ARZ052...ARZ053...
ARZ054...ARZ055...ARZ056...ARZ057...ARZ062...ARZ063...ARZ064...
ARZ065...ARZ066...ARZ067...ARZ068...AND ARZ069.
&&

44/56

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:02 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
502 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0420 PM     HAIL             2 S RAGTOWN             34.50N 91.10W
07/21/2005  0.75 INCH        MONROE             AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

0440 PM     HAIL             INDIAN BAY              34.38N 91.07W
07/21/2005  0.88 INCH        MONROE             AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
930 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0920 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MCCRORY                 35.26N 91.20W
07/22/2005                   WOODRUFF           AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE DOWN IN MCCRORY.

&&

INIGUEZ

Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:56 PM CST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
956 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0938 PM     HAIL             SAND HILL               35.00N 91.43W
07/22/2005  0.75 INCH        PRAIRIE            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

INIGUEZ

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 9:32 PM CST, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1032 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

ARZ044-230430-
PULASKI-
1032 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

AT 1025 PM CDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING
PULASKI COUNTY FROM THE NORTHEAST. THE STORMS BEGAN OVER
NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS EARLIER TONIGHT...AND HAVE PROGRESSED
SOUTHWESTWARD DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS.

WHILE THESE STORMS PRODUCED SOME WIND DAMAGE EARLIER TONIGHT...THEY
HAVE WEAKENED SOMEWHAT SINCE 10 PM. HOWEVER...WINDS OF 30 TO 40
MPH WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE AS THE STORMS MOVE SOUTHWEST AT 40 MPH
ACROSS THE COUNTY.

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The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:38 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lonoke

When: July 22, 9:40 PM CST
Where: Lonoke County, Lonoke
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.783, -91.917

Trees and power lines downed.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, July 2005

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: 5463466.