Thunderstorm Wind, Faulkner
- When
- September 24, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Faulkner County, Saltillo
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.033, -92.333
Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, September 24, 2005
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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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 Sep 24, 3:47 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 3:47 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 447 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 .DISCUSSION... LATEST RADAR AND SATELLITE DATA SUGGESTS THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM RITA IS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. LATEST FORECASTS ARE SUBSTANTIALLY MORE PROGRESSIVE REGARDING THE PATH OF THIS SYSTEM. HAVE ADJUSTED PRECIPITATION FORECASTS...AND THE CORRESPONDING FLASH FLOOD WATCH ACCORDINGLY. EXPECT THE THREAT FOR MINI-SUPERCELLS TO DECREASE AFTER SUNSET...AS AVAILABLE INSTABILITY DECREASES. COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED AT THE END OF THE EXTENDED PERIODS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 70 80 70 85 / 90 100 70 30 HARRISON AR 65 80 66 82 / 40 40 30 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 71 81 70 86 / 100 80 60 20 PINE BLUFF AR 72 80 71 86 / 100 100 70 40 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 65 79 67 82 / 50 60 40 10 MONTICELLO AR 75 80 71 86 / 100 100 70 40 SEARCY AR 69 80 69 85 / 90 100 70 30 MOUNT IDA AR 70 82 69 86 / 100 70 50 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 68 81 68 85 / 60 70 50 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM SUNDAY FOR ARZ040-ARZ052-ARZ053-ARZ066-ARZ067-ARZ068. FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 7 PM SUNDAY FOR ARZ032-ARZ033-ARZ034- ARZ039-ARZ040-ARZ041-ARZ042-ARZ043-ARZ044-ARZ045-ARZ046-ARZ047- ARZ052-ARZ053-ARZ054-ARZ055-ARZ056-ARZ057-ARZ062-ARZ063-ARZ064- ARZ065-ARZ066-ARZ067-ARZ068-ARZ069. LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM SUNDAY FOR ARZ041-ARZ042-ARZ043- ARZ044-ARZ045-ARZ054-ARZ055-ARZ056-ARZ057-ARZ062-ARZ063-ARZ064- ARZ065-ARZ069. && SHORT AND LONG TERM...55
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 24, 4:15 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 515 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-251000- 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- 515 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE RITA WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD TONIGHT. TROPICAL MOISTURE SURROUNDING RITA WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE NATURAL STATE. RAIN WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BY TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. THEREFORE...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. THIS INCLUDES AREAS SOUTH OF MENA...DANVILLE... SEARCY AND AUGUSTA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EMBEDDED IN THE RAIN...AND WILL HAVE A TENDENCY TO ROTATE EAST OF THE TRACK OF RITA. GIVEN THIS... ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...GENERALLY IN AREAS SOUTH OF MENA...RUSSELLVILLE AND BATESVILLE. CIRCULATION AROUND RITA WILL PRODUCE A BREEZY EASTERLY WIND ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT. WIND SPEEDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL PREVAIL. SOME GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS. .DAY TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ON SUNDAY...AND WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL CONTINUE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. THROUGH EARLY MONDAY...TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED 5 INCHES IN PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY MONDAY... MAINLY IN THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE STATE. AGAIN...ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY BE SPAWNED. IT APPEARS THAT THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CHANGE ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY...WITH A NORTHWEST WIND FLOW DEVELOPING ALOFT. A COLD FRONT WILL RIDE THE FLOW INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE PLAINS...AND MAY SWEEP THE REMNANTS OF RITA TO THE EAST. THE FRONT...SHOULD IT GO THROUGH... WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY COOL AND DRY AIR. YET ANOTHER FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE PLAINS BY AROUND THURSDAY. MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL BE LACKING...WITH ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE FRONT WILL BRING A REINFORCING SHOT OF COOLER AIR...WITH SEASONAL TEMPERATURES IN THE FORECAST. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT... WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED TORNADOES. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 58
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 24, 5:06 PM CST, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
606 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0545 PM TORNADO 1 N CATO 34.95N 92.27W
09/24/2005 FAULKNER AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN REPORTED BY PULASKI COUNTY
DEPUTY IN PASTURE AT MITCHELL ROAD AND 89.
&&
58The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:36 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Louisiana, September 24 to 25, 2005
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, September 24, 2005
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, September 24, 2005
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, September 24, 2005
- Tornado in Mississippi, September 24, 2005
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, September 24, 2005
- Tornado in Mississippi, September 24, 2005
- Hurricane in Texas, September 24, 2005
- Rip Current in Florida, September 24, 2005
- Hurricane in Louisiana, September 24 to 25, 2005
- Hurricane in Mississippi, September 24 to 25, 2005
- Tornado in Arkansas, September 24, 2005
More
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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: 5478375.