1 strong wind, 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 Apr 29, 1:08 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 208 PM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 .DISCUSSION... A RATHER STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE IN OUR VICINITY...AND THE GULF OF MEXICO IS WIDE OPEN...THEREFORE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY AND POSSIBLY BEYOND.(38) && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 55 77 55 79 / 60 30 40 30 HARRISON AR 51 71 52 73 / 60 40 40 40 HOT SPRINGS AR 55 78 55 79 / 50 30 30 20 PINE BLUFF AR 56 79 55 81 / 60 30 30 30 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 52 71 52 73 / 60 40 40 40 MONTICELLO AR 57 80 56 84 / 70 20 30 20 SEARCY AR 55 75 54 77 / 70 30 40 40 MOUNT IDA AR 55 77 55 79 / 50 30 30 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 54 75 54 77 / 60 30 40 30 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM SATURDAY FOR ARZ003-ARZ004-ARZ005- ARZ006-ARZ007-ARZ012-ARZ013-ARZ014-ARZ015-ARZ016-ARZ021-ARZ022- ARZ023-ARZ024-ARZ025-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-ARZ069. && SHORT AND LONG TERM...38
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1028 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301000- 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- 1028 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER ARKANSAS WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO THE EAST...AND SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE STATE BY EARLY THIS EVENING. CHANCES FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER ARE LOW. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY TO BE IN THE RANGE OF 3/4 INCH TO 2 INCHES. A NEW LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY TO ENTER WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS LINE WILL MOVE TOWARD THE EAST...AND SHOULD EXIT EASTERN ARKANSAS TOWARD MIDNIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS LINE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT... ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM. SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 30 MPH AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF ARKANSAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY EVENING. CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN ARKANSAS ARE LIKELY TO INCREASE AGAIN ON MONDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND MAY CONTINUE ON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AFTER THAT...THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 28
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
248 PM CDT SAT APR 29 2006
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1115 AM NON-TSTM WND DMG 4 S PINE BLUFF 34.16N 92.02W
04/29/2006 JEFFERSON AR TRAINED SPOTTER
LARGE TREE FELL ON A MOBILE HOME. WINDS ESTIMATED AROUND
40 MPH.
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22The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds knocked down a large tree in the Runyan Acres community. The tree landed on a house, causing minor roof damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, April 2006
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: 5503090.