A storm system along the Gulf Coast pulled moisture northward into Arkansas. The moisture overran colder air across the state, with freezing rain developing in areas near the Missouri border on the 20th and into the early morning hours of the 21st.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
A storm system along the Gulf Coast pulled moisture northward into Arkansas. The moisture overran colder air across the state, with freezing rain developing in areas near the Missouri border on the 20th and into the early morning hours of the 21st. Most of the freezing rain was light, and affected areas from Harrison (Boone County) and Jasper (Newton County) eastward through Yellville (Marion County), Mountain Home (Baxter County), Salem (Fulton County) and Hardy (Sharp County).
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 Jan 20, 5:38 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 538 PM CST SAT JAN 20 2007 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS PREVAIL WITH IFR IN THE NORTH. CEILINGS WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER THIS EVENING AND IFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL BY LATE TONIGHT.(38) && .PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 520 PM CST SAT JAN 20 2007/ UPDATE... WARM AIR ADVECTION IS WINNING THE BATTLE THIS EVENING...WITH TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTH HAVING DIFFICULTY STAYING BELOW FREEZING OVERNIGHT. A COLD RAIN EVENT IS EXPECTED IN MOST AREAS...WITH POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN TOWARD THE MISSOURI BORDER. WITH TEMPERATURES AT/NOT MUCH BELOW FREEZING...ACCRUALS WILL BE LESS SIGNIFICANT WITH LESS PROBLEMS ON THE ROADS. DOWNGRADED WINTER STORM WARNING IN THE NORTH TO AN ADVISORY...WITH ADVISORY FARTHER SOUTH CANCELLED. (46) SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. KLZK RADAR SHOWS THE PRECIP MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTH HALF. A FEW REPORTS OF SLEET HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN THE NORTH. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE WILL BE MOVING OUT OF TEXAS THIS EVENING AND BRING ANOTHER SHOT OF PRECIP TO THE AREA. TEMPERATURES CLIMBED TO THE MID 40S IN THE SOUTH TODAY. WILL KEEP ALL RAIN TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH. A MIX OF RAIN...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW IS EXPECTED FOR THE NORTH HALF OF THE AREA. TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO HOVER JSUT ABOVE FREEZING AT HRO. AS TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT...FREEZING RAIN WILL BECOME MORE OF A CONCERN. WILL KEEP THE WINTER STORM WARNING GOING IN THE NORTH AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY JUST SOUTH OF THAT...THROUGH TONIGHT. THE UPPER LOW MOVES INTO KANSAS TONIGHT AND INTO IOWA SUNDAY MORNING. THE DRY SLOT MOVES IN QUICKLY SUNDAY MORNING BRINGING PRECIP TO AN END. WILL KEEP PRECIP IN ONLY THE VERY EASTERN SECTIONS SUNDAY MORNING. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE DAY SUNDAY SO KEPT MOSTLY CLOUDY WORDING OVER THE AREA. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR MONDAY DECREASING CLOUDS. LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SECOND UPPER TROF SWINGING AROUND THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF A DIGGING EASTERN UPPER TROF MAY HAVE MORE EFFECT ON THE AREA THAN THOUGHT EARLIER. MOISTURE INCREASES INTO SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY AND A SURFACE WAVE DEVELOPS IN THE NORTHERN GULF. THIS WOULD BRING A CHANCE OF PRECIP TO AT LEAST SOUTHERN SECTIONS TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. THERE COULD BE SOME ISSUES WITH WINTER PRECIP WITH THIS AT LEAST ON THE NORTHERN END BUT FOR NOW KEPT TEMPS JUST ABOVE FREEZING WITH CHANCES OF RAIN CONFINED TO ABOUT THE SOUTH HALF OF THE AREA. BEHIND THIS COLD HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD DOWN THE PLAINS AND COLD AIR SHOULD COVER THE AREA. THIS COULD BECOME EVEN MORE PRONOUNCED IF A STRONG EAST COAST STORM DEVELOPS. DID NOT MAKE MANY CHANGES TO FORECAST FOR LATE IN THE WEEK BUT MAY NEED TO LOWER TEMPS SOME WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY IF THE GFS SCENARIO MATERIALIZES. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM SUNDAY FOR ARZ003-ARZ004- ARZ005-ARZ006-ARZ012-ARZ013. && AVIATION...38
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 755 PM CST SAT JAN 20 2007 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211100- 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- 755 PM CST SAT JAN 20 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A WINTER STORM IN THE SOUTHERN PLAINS CONTINUES TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AND SHOULD BE LOCATED IN SOUTHERN IOWA BY SUNDAY MORNING. PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS THE STATE FROM THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH TONIGHT. WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE...EVAPORATION WILL TEND TO COOL THE ATMOSPHERE...WITH SLEET MIXING WITH RAIN IN MUCH OF NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING. MAINLY RAIN IS EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT ONCE THE ATMOSPHERE SATURATES. TOWARD THE MISSOURI BORDER...POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN ARE EXPECTED...WITH TEMPERATURES HOVERING AROUND 32 DEGREES. SOME ICING COULD OCCUR FROM HARRISON TO JASPER...YELLVILLE...MARSHALL... MOUNTAIN HOME AND SALEM. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED IN THESE AREAS. PEOPLE ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS SHOULD CONTINUE MONITORING THE LATEST FORECAST AND SHOULD PLAN FOR SOME ICING TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ONCE THE STORM SYSTEM EXITS THE REGION EARLY SUNDAY...THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD LOOKS MOSTLY DRY. SEVERAL FRONTS ARE FORECAST TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST...WITH REINFORCING SHOTS OF COLD AIR AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION 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 46
1 ice storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Ice accruals exceeded a quarter of an inch in parts of Boone County during the evening of January 20th. This included the Harrison area. Ice built up on trees and power lines, with roads becoming hazardous. Even U.S. Highway 65 became ice covered in spots.
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, January 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: 13037.