Thunderstorm Wind, Lonoke
- When
- August 20, 12:25 PM CST
- Where
- Lonoke County, Ward
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.033, -91.967
Thunderstorm winds blew down a fence, along with some trees.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 20, 2006
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Aug 20, 11:32 AM CST, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 11:32 AM CST, 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1232 PM CDT SUN AUG 20 2006 .AVIATION... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.(38) && .PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 1100 AM CDT SUN AUG 20 2006/ UPDATE... SURFACE FRONT IS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING...AND THE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT ALONG THE FRONT HAS BECOME A BIT BETTER DEFINED DUE TO CLOUDINESS AND RAIN COOLED AIR TO THE NORTH. FRONT HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO TELL IF ITS ON THE MOVE YET. WINDS ARE STARTING TO SHIFT TO A NLY DIRECTION AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND IT LOOKS AS IF THE FRONT IS STARTING TO BUDGE. FRONT MAY MAKE IT INTO CENTRAL AR EARLY THIS EVENING IF IT GETS MOVING AND INTO SRN AR SOMETIME TOMORROW MORNING. NOT PLANNING ANY UPDATES TO THE FORECAST AT THIS TIME AS THE CURRENT TEMP AND POP VALUES LOOK REASONABLE. CONVECTIVE TEMPS ARE A LITTLE HIGHER TODAY THAN YESTERDAY SOUTH OF THE FRONT...BUT WITH TEMPS WARMING UP THEY WAY THEY ARE...I EXPECT THAT SOME CONVECTION WILL START TO DEVELOP BEFORE TOO LONG. 53 LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && AVIATION...38
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 20, 6:15 AM CST, 6 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED DAY 1 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 715 AM CDT SUN AUG 20 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211000- 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- 715 AM CDT SUN AUG 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WEAKENING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO ARKANSAS TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE AROUND AND BEHIND THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT WHEN THEY SHOULD WEAKEN. AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO THIS AFTERNOON COULD BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ALSO ISOLATED STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. TEMPERATURES WILL NOT BE AS HIGH TODAY AS THEY WERE THE PAST TWO DAYS. HIGHS WILL BE IN THE UPPER 80S TO UPPER 90S AND THE AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX WILL BE LESS THAN 105. HOWEVER...PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS SHOULD STILL TAKE PRECAUTIONS ABOUT THE HEAT THIS AFTERNOON EVEN THOUGH IT WILL NOT BE UP TO HEAT ADVISORY LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONTAL SYSTEM OR ASSOCIATED BOUNDARIES. ISOLATED STORMS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS OR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 38
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:26 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
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 20 to 21, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 20, 2006
- Rip Current in Florida, August 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 20, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 20, 2006
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, August 20, 2006
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 20, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Dakota, August 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 20, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 20, 2006
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, August 2006
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: 5532149.