Locally heavy rains fell over northern Arkansas on 12/30 and produced some flooding.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Locally heavy rains fell over northern Arkansas on 12/30 and produced some flooding.
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 Dec 30, 2:40 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 240 PM CST SAT DEC 30 2006 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT FIRST ROUND OF RAIN JUST E OF THE FA THIS AFTN. ANOTHER BATCH OF RAIN CONTS TO LIFT NEWD ACRS THE WRN HALF OF THE AREA THIS AFTN. ALL THE ACTIVITY ASSOCD WITH THE UPPER LOW THAT WAS SLOLY DRIFTING EWD IN THE TX PANHANDLE. MEANWHILE...SFC LOW NOTED NEAR KICT...WITH AN OCCLUDED BNDRY EXTENDING SEWD INTO NWRN LA. THE UPPER LOW IS PROGGED TO START LIFTING TO THE NE LATER TNGT AS A STRONG JET MAX ROTATES ARND THE BASE OF THE UPPER LOW. THIS WILL RESULT IN A DIMINISHING RAIN CHCS OVERNIGHT FM THE SW AS DRIER AIR ALOFT CONTS WORKS IN FM THE SW. POPS TRENDS WL BE THE MAIN FCST CHALLENGE TNGT AND WL BASE THEM PRIMARILY ON LATEST RADAR/RUC TRENDS. UPPER LOW IS FCST TO PASS NW OF AR SUN AND INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION SUN NGT AND MON. MOISTURE ASSOCD WITH THE UPPER SYS WL ROTATE ACRS NRN AR ON SUN. HAVE CONT WITH SLGT CHC POPS OVR NRN COUNTIES SUN AFTN AS DAYTIME HEATING WL COMBINE WITH COLDER AIR ALOFT TO PRODUCE SOME LGT RAIN. SOME SHALLOW MOISTURE WL LINGER OVR THE REGION SUN NGT AND MON... RESULTING IN PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. COOLER AND DRIER AIR WL WORK INTO THE FA FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. && .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST LATE WEDNESDAY...AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROF/CLOSED LOW...DEPENDS ON THE MODEL RUN...MOVES EAST FROM THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. SURFACE LOW WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE GULF COAST...AND MOVE NORTHEAST. HAVE KEPT CHANCE POPS IN FORECAST AS MODELS BECOMING MORE CONSISTENT IN THE OVERALL PICTURE. HAVE PRECIP MOVING EAST BY FRIDAY MORNING...WITH DRY WEATHER FOLLOWING AFTER THAT. COLD AIR WILL REMAIN TO THE NORTH...SO HAVE LEFT ALL PRECIP LIQUID. TEMPS WILL BE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...44 / LONG TERM...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1040 AM CST SAT DEC 30 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-311100- 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- 1040 AM CST SAT DEC 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST THROUGH THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 58
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain caused flooding in many sections of Newton County. A couple of low water crossings were washed out, as were a number of county roads. Some of the areas affected included Jasper, Cave Creek, Vendor, Mt. Judea, and Deer.
Heavy rains fell over portions of Cleburne County and produced some localized flooding. Several county roads were blocked for a short time due to high water levels.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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