1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Mar 14, 3:30 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 330 AM CST TUE MAR 14 2006 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY HIGH PRESSURE AND DRY AIR NOW IN PLACE ACROSS ARKANSAS AFTER COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE MONDAY. TEMPS EARLY THIS MORNING 30 DEGREES COOLER IN SOME PLACES THAN MONDAY MORNING. TEMPS THIS AFTERNOON WILL REMAIN COOL COMPARED TO THE LAST FEW DAYS...WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S TO THE MID 60S. OVERNIGHT READINGS WILL REMAIN COOL AS WELL...BUT NOT AS COOL AS THIS MORNING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST WEDNESDAY...WITH RETURN FLOW BRINGING MOISTURE BACK TO THE STATE. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. MOISTURE LEVELS WILL HIGHEST IN THE SOUTH...BUT STILL ONLY WENT WITH CHANCE POPS. HIGH PRESSURE MOVES SOUTH FROM THE MIDWEST FRIDAY...WITH DRY CONDITIONS RETURNING. && .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY WEAK UPPER RIDGING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD WILL SLIDE BY THE AREA AS ANOTHER STRONG UPPER TROF SETS UP TO THE WEST. THE RESULTING SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL PUT THIS AREA INTO A WET PATTERN FOR THE WEEKEND INTO MONDAY. COLD HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE NORTH WILL BE IN THE AREA INITIALLY WITH COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS PRESENT. THIS SHOULD GREATLY LIMIT INSTABILITY FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY AT LEAST. AS RETURN FLOW INCREASES...TEMPS WILL SLOWLY RISE BUT WITH WINDS REMAINING MOSTLY FROM THE EAST IT WILL NOT WARM UP A LOT. ANY WARM FRONTS SHOULD STAY TO THE SOUTH. SO THE AREA WILL BE IN A GOOD OVERRUNNING PATTERN. INSTABILITY ALOFT MAY INCREASE BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS THE UPPER TROF STARTS TO TAKE ON A NEGATIVE TILT AND MOVE INTO THE PLAINS. ADJUSTED POPS A LITTLE...PUTTING LIKELY POPS IN FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT THEN HIGH CHANCE POPS FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. CONTINUED WITH LOW END CHANCE POPS FOR MONDAY NIGHT AS UNCERTAINTIES IN TIMING OF THE SYSTEM STILL EXIST. WENT WITH STRATIFORM RAIN FOR SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING THEN AS ELEVATED INSTABILITY MAY INCREASE WITH TIME...MENTIONED ISOLATED THUNDER FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SOME GOOD RAINFALL AMOUNTS THAT MAY PUT A LITTLE DENT IN THE DROUGHT BUT THAT WILL REMAIN TO BE SEEN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 63 35 66 46 / 0 0 0 40 HARRISON AR 57 37 63 44 / 0 0 0 20 HOT SPRINGS AR 65 35 66 47 / 0 0 0 40 PINE BLUFF AR 64 38 67 47 / 0 0 0 40 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 57 36 63 44 / 0 0 0 20 MONTICELLO AR 65 38 68 47 / 0 0 0 50 SEARCY AR 60 35 65 45 / 0 0 0 30 MOUNT IDA AR 65 35 65 46 / 0 0 0 30 RUSSELLVILLE AR 61 28 64 43 / 0 0 0 30 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...58 / LONG TERM...29
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Drought conditions increased the wildfire danger in March. It is believed that a lightning strike triggered a wildfire near the Black Springs community of Montgomery County. The fire burned at least 8600 acres before it was contained. The fire was in an extremely remote area, with no property lost.
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, March 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: 5497143.