2 flash flood, 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 2:19 AM CST, 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 319 AM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 .DISCUSSION... COMPLEX PATTERN HAS SET UP ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS MAKING PRECIPITATION FORECASTS DIFFICULT. CURRENT RADAR TRENDS HAVE BEEN SHOWING THE AREA OF RAIN THAT HAS BEEN OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS SINCE LATE EVENING YESTERDAY...FINALLY MOVING EAST. THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO A SHORTWAVE DROPPING OUT OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND PHASING WITH THE SHORTWAVE THAT HAS BEEN DRIFTING NORTHWARD OUT OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE WEAKNESS IN THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER THE MIDSOUTH BRINGING CONTINUING CHANCES FOR RAIN. THE NAM MODEL HAS BEEN PERFORMING BETTER THAN THE GFS WITH THIS SYSTEM. NAM THETA-E RIDGE AXIS WILL SHIFT TO A MORE EAST TO WEST ORIENTATION WHICH MEANS THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WILL OCCUR OVER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. EVENTUALLY THE THETA-E AXIS SHIFTS TO A NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ORIENTATION. THIS FEATURE...IN ADDITION TO WEAK TO MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL CAUSE MENTION OF RAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. DAYTIME MAX TEMPERATURES WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNCOMFORTABLE...ESPECIALLY WITH THE TROPICAL AIRMASS AND HIGHER HUMIDITIES...THIS WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. LOOK FOR TEMPERATURES TO RETURN TO THE LOWER AND MID 90S AND HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 100 AND 105 BY MONDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MEM 86 74 92 76 / 80 50 50 30 MKL 83 71 89 73 / 80 50 60 40 JBR 84 73 93 74 / 90 40 40 20 TUP 87 73 89 73 / 70 50 70 30 && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. && AC
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 330 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-281100- ALCORN-BENTON(MS)-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)- MADISON-MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT- PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY- ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA- UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA- 330 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE AREA TONIGHT. STORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR DAILY FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BUT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:13 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Torrential rains caused 2 feet of water to cover portions of County Road 920.
Flash flooding caused 3 to 4 inches of water on roads in the town of Rector.
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, July 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: 5520374, 5520375.