Scattered thunderstorms developed on the 30th, ahead of an advancing cold front.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms developed on the 30th, ahead of an advancing cold front.
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 30, 5:15 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 615 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2007 .AVIATION... ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS MORNING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT JUST ENTERING THE STATE. PRECIP WILL BE MAINLY THIS MORNING...AS DRIER AIR MOVING IN BEHIND THE FRONT. AFTER PRECIP ENDS...CLOUD DECK AROUND 6000 FEET WILL CONTINUE. WINDS WILL BE NORTHWEST SHIFTING TO NORTHEAST BEHIND THE FRONT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 346 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2007/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTH EARLY THIS MORNING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NOTED FROM CLARKSVILLE TO FORT SMITH...AND PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD FARTHER SOUTH WITH THE FRONT AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. AS WAS THE CASE ON WEDNESDAY...RAIN WILL BE HIT AND MISS...WITH LITTLE IF ANY RAIN TOWARD THE MISSOURI BORDER. BY THIS EVENING...MAY BE A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES...WITH DRIER AIR/LOWER DEWPOINTS BUILDING INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS BEHIND THE FRONT. THE DRY AIRMASS WILL PENETRATE THROUGH THE REGION ON FRIDAY...AND THIS WILL LEAD TO SLIGHTLY COOLER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES/MORE SIGNIFICANT COOLDOWN AT NIGHT. TOWARD THE END OF THE SHORT TERM...APPEARS MOISTURE WILL START INCREASING FROM THE SOUTH/EAST...BUT NO RAIN MENTIONED YET. LONG TERM...LABOR DAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NOT MANY CHANGES IN THE EXTENDED. MOISTURE RETURN IN THE MODELS IS LESS THAN IN PREVIOUS DAYS...BUT KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. UPPER LOW STILL DEVELOPS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...BUT TIMING AND MOISTURE RETURN REMAIN ISSUES. HAVE LEFT PREVIOUS THINKING OF LOW CHANCE POPS ON WEDNESDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER THAN PREVIOUS DAYS...BUT WILL STILL BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2007 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-311000- 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- 500 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE STATE WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION. MOST OF THE RAINFALL WILL BE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...OR SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CLARKSVILLE TO BATESVILLE. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. DUE TO EXCEPTIONALLY DRY CONDITIONS...FLOODING RAINFALL IS NOT A CONCERN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. THIS WILL BRING PLEASANT WEATHER TO THE STATE. MOISTURE WILL RETURN TO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST FOR AREAS SOUTH OF LITTLE ROCK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 58
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:45 UTC.
1 flash flood, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
There were six inches of water over Sulphur Springs Road. Many yards were flooded in the Sulphur Springs community.
Lightning struck at a gas well, knocking over a tank and setting it on fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, August 2007
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