1 lightning, 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 Aug 11, 1:52 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 252 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2006 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTH AND CENTRAL SECTIONS HAS DECREASED CONSIDERABLY. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE SOUTH JUST AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MENA TO PINE BLUFF WHERE THE MOST HEATING HAS TAKEN PLACE. WITH ADDITIONAL HEATING IN THE SOUTH...WILL KEEP THE HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY EVENING. UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN U.S. WILL SHIFT TO THE EAST LATE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THE COLD FRONT AT THE SURFACE WILL MAKE IT TO THE SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BORDER BY SATURDAY. THIS WILL KEEP MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTH SATURDAY. THE FRONT MOVES BACK TO THE NORTH ON SUNDAY AND WILL SPREAD POPS BACK INTO THE NORTH. THE UPPER RIDGE TRIES TO BUILD EASTWARD MONDAY SO WILL KEEP POPS IN THE SLIGHT CHANCE CATEGORY FOR NOW. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR NORMAL UNTIL A WARM UP ON MONDAY. && .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY UPPER RDG IS PROGGED TO STRENGTHEN ACRS THE REGION DURG THE PD. A WEAK FNTL BNDRY IS PROGGED TO WORK SWWD INTO AR BY LATE TUE AND TUE NGT...POSSIBLY SETTING OFF SOME WDLY SCTD SHRA/TSRA. FM WED THRU FRI...LOOKS LIKE ONLY ISOLD AFTN/EARLY EVENING STORMS WL BE POSSIBLE. TEMPS EXPECTED TO STAY AT ABV NORMAL LVLS THRU THE FCST PD. FCST HEAT INDICES WL NEED TO BE MONITORED EARLY IN THE PD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 72 92 72 93 / 60 30 20 20 HARRISON AR 67 88 69 90 / 20 10 10 20 HOT SPRINGS AR 72 93 72 94 / 60 30 20 20 PINE BLUFF AR 74 93 72 94 / 60 30 20 20 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 67 88 69 90 / 20 10 10 20 MONTICELLO AR 75 94 73 95 / 60 40 20 20 SEARCY AR 71 91 71 92 / 40 20 10 20 MOUNT IDA AR 72 93 71 93 / 60 30 20 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 71 91 70 92 / 40 20 10 20 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM FRIDAY FOR ARZ052-ARZ053-ARZ054-ARZ055- ARZ056-ARZ057-ARZ062-ARZ063-ARZ064-ARZ065-ARZ066-ARZ067-ARZ068- ARZ069. && SHORT TERM...51 / LONG TERM...44
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED SPELLING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 320 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-121000- 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- 320 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MOUNT IDA...TO BENTON...TO CLARENDON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO FORM ALONG AND AHEAD OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. SOME OF THE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED ONE INCH PER HOUR IN SOME AREAS. ALSO...THERE WILL BE HEAT INDEX VALUES RANGING BETWEEN 105 AND 110 ACROSS SOUTH ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS... MAINLY FOR AREAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GLENWOOD TO SHERIDAN TO STUTTGART. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 38
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:34 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 19 year old male was struck and killed by lightning while jogging around the track at Hot Springs Middle School.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Garland | 2006-08-11 | 19 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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, August 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: 5531914.