1 wildfire, 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 Mar 16, 3:45 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 345 AM CST THU MAR 16 2006 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY. DEWPOINTS AHEAD OF THE FRONT RELATIVELY DRY...SO PRECIP CHANCES LOOK HARD TO COME BY TODAY. WITH BEST MOISTURE STILL IN THE EAST/SOUTHEAST...KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THERE. MIGHT SEE A SPRINKLE IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS...BUT DID NOT INCLUDE IN GRIDS. TEMPS WILL BE TRICKY TODAY...AS READINGS IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS WILL NOT WARM MUCH. WARMEST READINGS WILL BE IN THE SOUTHWEST...WITH A LITTLE COOLER IN THE EAST DUE TO CLOUD COVERING LINGERING IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO THE PLAINS STATES TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. DRY AND COOL CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH READINGS OVERNIGHT CLOSE TO FREEZING IN THE NORTH. AFTERNOON HIGHS ON FRIDAY WILL BE IN THE LOWER 50S TO THE LOWER 60S. MOISTURE WILL RETURN TO THE STATE LATE FRIDAY...AHEAD OF SHORTWAVE OVER TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING MUCH NEEDED RAINFALL TO AREA OVER THE WEEKEND. PRECIP WILL START IN THE NORTHWEST FRIDAY EVENING...AND MOVE EAST DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES. HAVE CONTINUED HEAVY RAINFALL WORDING IN ZONES/GRIDS ...WITH QPF AMOUNTS POSSIBLY REACHING OVER 2 INCHES IN SOME LOCALES. WILL CONTINUE TO FINE TUNE QPF AMOUNTS AS EVENT PROGRESSES...BUT SOUTHERN ARKANSAS LOOKS TO SEE THE MOST RAINFALL OUT OF THIS EVENT. HOWEVER...WILL BE A GOOD RAIN FOR ENTIRE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOL THIS WEEKEND...AS DIURNAL TEMP RANGES WILL BE SMALL. FOR THE MOST PART...AFTERNOON READINGS WILL BE MID 40S TO THE MID 50S...OR 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. && .LONG TERM...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY UPPER TROF WILL BE COMING OUT THROUGH THE PLAINS EARLY IN THE PERIOD. OVERRUNNING PATTERN SHOULD CONTINUE SUNDAY NIGHT BUT AS THE UPPR TROF MOVES CLOSER ON MONDAY THE WARM FRONT TO THE SOUTH MAY MANAGE TO MOVE INTO AT LEAST PART OF THE AREA. THIS COULD PUT AT LEAST PART OF THE AREA INTO THE WARM SECTOR AND BRING UP A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH ON MONDAY. GFS HINTING AT AN OCCLUDED SYSTEM IN THE AREA WHICH IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS MOVES PAST THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY THEN COLD HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTH FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD WITH COOL AND DRY AIR IN PLACE. WENT WITH LIKELY POPS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING WHILE OVERRUNNING IS CONTINUING. RAIN SHOULD BE MOSTLY STRATIFORM ALTHOUGH SOME ELEVATED INSTABILITY COULD RESULT IN ISOLATED EMBEDDED THUNDER. WENT MORE WITH SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON AS THE MAIN UPPER TROF MOVES CLOSE TO THE AREA AND PARTS OF THE AREA COULD GET INTO MORE UNSTABLE AIR. DECREASED POPS BY LATE MONDAY AND CONTINUED SMALL POPS IN THE NORTH MONDAY NIGHT CLOSER TO THE UPPER LOW. HAVE NO MENTION OF PRECIP FROM TUESDAY AND BEYOND FOR NOW. TIMING AND LOCATION OF THE UPPER LOW EARLY NEXT WEEK STILL QUITE UNCERTAIN SO FURTHER CHANGES WILL BE POSSIBLE. IT DOES LOOK LIKE COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS WILL DOMINATE THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 68 39 58 39 / 20 10 10 40 HARRISON AR 65 33 53 35 / 10 0 10 40 HOT SPRINGS AR 69 39 59 40 / 10 10 10 50 PINE BLUFF AR 68 41 60 40 / 20 10 10 40 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 66 33 53 35 / 10 0 10 40 MONTICELLO AR 67 42 61 41 / 20 10 10 50 SEARCY AR 68 38 56 37 / 20 0 10 40 MOUNT IDA AR 70 38 60 40 / 10 0 10 50 RUSSELLVILLE AR 68 35 56 37 / 10 0 10 50 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...58 / LONG TERM...29
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 700 PM CST WED MAR 15 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161100- 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- 700 PM CST WED MAR 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE INTO THE PLAINS BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND MONDAY. THIS WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN TO THE AREA FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN FROM THIS SYSTEM. AT THIS TIME THE CHANCE OF FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER FROM THESE WEATHER SYSTEMS IS MINIMAL...BUT THERE COULD BE A BETTER CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER ABOUT MONDAY DEPENDING ON THE MOVEMENT AND CHARACTER OF THE UPPER LEVEL LOW AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION 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 38
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Drought conditions increased the wildfire danger in March. A wildfire was started in western Stone County, and burned at least 500 to 600 acres before it was contained. The fire affected 8 structures just northwest of Timbo, but none of the structures were lost.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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