Low pressure near the Gulf Coast was responsible for pushing a large amount of moisture into Arkansas. The approach of a cold front triggered thunderstorms and widespread heavy rain on the 15th.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Low pressure near the Gulf Coast was responsible for pushing a large amount of moisture into Arkansas. The approach of a cold front triggered thunderstorms and widespread heavy rain on the 15th.
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 15, 5:32 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 532 AM CST SAT DEC 15 2007 .AVIATION... LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED THUNDER CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH THE STATE. CIGS/VISBYS WILL REMAIN IFR TO LIFR THIS MORNING...AND WILL LIFT SOME WHEN DRY SLOT MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. HOWEVER...UPPER LOW WILL BRING WRAP AROUND MOISTURE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. NORTHERN SITES WILL SEE RAIN MIX WITH SNOW...AND THEN CHANGE TO ALL SNOW THIS AFTERNOON. KHOT...KLIT...AND KPBF WILL SEE RAIN MIX WITH SNOW BEFORE 00Z AND CONTINUE THROUGH MID EVENING. KLLQ WILL SEE ALL RAIN THIS EVENING...AS MOISTURE LEAVES BEFORE COLDER AIR GETS THAT FAR SOUTH. HAVE REMAINED PESSIMISTIC ABOUT CLEARING OVERNIGHT...AND KEPT MVFR CIGS IN THROUGH 12Z. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 325 AM CST SAT DEC 15 2007/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY UPPER TROF MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS TODAY WILL PASS THE AREA TONIGHT. APPEARS THE TROF MAY STILL BE OPEN AS IT REACHES THE AREA WITH THE MAIN CENTER NEAR THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE STATE. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS SHOULD BE COVERING THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA AT 12Z WHILE WESTERN AREAS WILL GET A LULL AS SOMEWHAT OF A DRY SLOT MOVES IN. BASED ON THIS SETUP...LEFT 100 POPS IN THE EASTERN HALF FOR THIS MORNING WITH LOWER POPS TO THE WEST. THE DRY SLOT SHOULD COVER THE ENTIRE AREA BY MIDDAY AND CONTINUED CHANCE POPS FOR THAT PERIOD. THE WRAPAROUND MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAIN TROF WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN AREAS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND INCREASED POPS BACK TO LIKELY IN THE NORTHWEST BY LATE AFTERNOON. THIS SECOND AREA OF MOISTURE WILL PASS ACROSS THE AREA EARLY TONIGHT AND WILL BE MAINLY PAST THE AREA BY 06Z. CONTINUED SMALL POPS IN THE NORTHEAST FOR AWHILE AFTER MIDNIGHT. DRY WEATHER SHOULD COVER THE AREA FROM SUNDAY AND BEYOND AS WEAK UPPER RIDGING MOVES IN AND A SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BE IN THE AREA. TEMPS AT THE REPORTING STATIONS HAVE REMAINED RATHER STEADY THROUGH THE NIGHT AND HAVE BEEN ABOVE FREEZING. A FEW AREAS IN THE NORTHWEST WERE IN THE 33 TO 34 DEGREE RANGE AND SOME SLEET HAS BEEN MIXED IN AT TIMES WITH SOME PATCHY FREEZING RAIN...MAINLY AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS WHERE TEMPS MAY BE AT FREEZING. TEMPS SHOULD NOT CHANGE MUCH THROUGH TODAY BUT DID ALLOW FOR A FEW DEGREES OF WARMING AS CLOUDS MAY THIN WITH THE DRY SLOT. STILL LOOKS LIKE SOME AREAS IN THE NORTHWEST COULD HAVE A MIXTURE OF SNOW AND SLEET AND MAYBE SOME ISOLATED FREEZING RAIN...SO WILL CONTINUE THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. HOWEVER...DO NOT SEE THIS FOR JOHNSON AND POPE COUNTIES. SOME OF THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THOSE COUNTIES COULD SEE SOME MIXED PRECIP BUT IN THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE RESIDENTS OF THOSE COUNTIES ARE...TEMPS WILL STAY SAFELY ABOVE FREEZING. THUS THOSE TWO COUNTIES WERE DROPPED FROM THE ADVISORY. AS THE UPPER TROF MOVES INTO THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...TEMPS WILL DROP THROUGHOUT THE AIR COLUMN AND PRECIP SHOULD MIX WITH AND CHANGE TO SNOW IN MANY AREAS. MOISTURE NOT LOOKING REAL GREAT AS THIS HAPPENS SO SNOW ACCUMULATIONS IN MOST AREAS SHOULD BE VERY MINOR IF ANYTHING. THE EXCEPTION COULD BE IN THE NORTH CLOSER TO THE TROF AXIS. AN INCH OR TWO OF ACCUMULATION IS STILL POSSIBLE THERE. A SNOW ADVISORY CONTINUING INTO TONIGHT MAY BE NEEDED THERE BUT WITH THE ONGOING WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN PLACE THERE...WILL LET DAY SHIFT MAKE THE NECESSARY ADJUSTMENTS TO THAT LATER TODAY. ALSO THE SURFACE LOW TO THE EAST OF THE AREA WILL DEEPEN RESULTING IN INCREASING WINDS. IT LOOKS LIKE WINDS MAY REACH LAKE WIND ADVISORY LEVELS TONIGHT ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST. WILL LET DAY SHIFT EVALUATE THIS AS WELL. LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE REGION WEDNESDAY...BRINGING RAIN CHANCES BACK TO THE STATE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SURFACE LOW MOVES QUICKLY OFF TO THE NORTHEAST ON THURSDAY...TAKING PRECIPITATION WITH IT. HIGH PRESSURE FOLLOWS...BEFORE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE REGION FOR JUST BEYOND THE LONG TERM. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL... BUT DID GO A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN GUIDANCE. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR BAXTER- BOONE-MARION-NEWTON-SEARCY. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CST SAT DEC 15 2007 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- 500 AM CST SAT DEC 15 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE TODAY ACROSS THE STATE AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...SOME SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN MAY MIX IN WITH THE RAINFALL THIS MORNING. DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE FROM WEST TO EAST THIS MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BRING WRAP AROUND MOISTURE TO THE STATE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...RAIN WILL MIX WITH SNOW...BEFORE CHANGING OVER TO ALL SNOW AFTER SUNSET. ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE AROUND ONE INCH...WITH UP TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLE CLOSE TO THE MISSOURI BORDER. MUCH OF THE SNOW WILL STICK IN GRASSY AREAS...BUT SOME ROADS MAY BECOME SLICK WHEN TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING. IN AREAS NORTH OF LITTLE ROCK...RAIN MAY MIX WITH SNOW THIS EVENING. WHILE MOISTURE WILL LIMITED...SOME SNOW FLURRIES OR A DUSTING OF SNOW ON GRASSY AREAS IS POSSIBLE. THERE WILL BE LITTLE TO NO SNOW ACCUMULATION ACROSS CENTRAL AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. SOUTHERN ARKANSAS MAY SEE A FLURRY OR TWO...BUT THE COLDER AIR WILL NOT REACH THIS AREA UNTIL AFTER THE MOISTURE HAS MOVED OUT OF THE STATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY DRY WEATHER WILL RETURN SUNDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY...BEFORE THE NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN MOVES IN FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. .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), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:46 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains from thunderstorms caused a bridge on Center Ridge Road at Rowe Creek to flood. The location was about a mile and a half south of Amity. A car was washed off the bridge, but the motorist escaped uninjured.
Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flooding in the area around Tubbs Creek, about a mile and a half west of Des Arc. Arkansas Highway 38 was closed for approximately 10 hours due to flooding.
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, December 2007
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: 62869, 62872.