A few severe thunderstorms and flash floods occurred across the northwest corner of Arkansas.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
A few severe thunderstorms and flash floods occurred across the northwest corner of Arkansas.
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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 5, 2:11 PM CST, 3 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 311 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008 .DISCUSSION... MORNING CONVECTION HAS DRIFTED INTO NRN AR...WITH OTHER SCT SHOWERS NOTED ACROSS ERN KS. SUSTAINED AFTERNOON HEATING AND PRESENCE OF SEWD MOVING MCV CURRENTLY OVER SERN KS SHOULD SUPPORT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EVENING HOURS ALONG THE INSTABILITY AXIS THAT STRETCHES FROM NE OK INTO WRN AR. WILL TAKE A LAST LOOK AT RADAR TRENDS BEFORE DECIDING ON FIRST PERIOD POPS. WARMER AND DRIER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR SUNDAY/MONDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE STRENGTHENS ACROSS THE REGION. MAV NUMBERS CONTINUE TO LOOK TOO WARM ON AFTERNOON HIGHS...AND WILL CONTINUE TO UNDERCUT THEM A FEW DEGREES. LONGER RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST A WEAKNESS IN THE UPPER RIDGING/MODEST NWLY FLOW DEVELOPING AROUND MID-WEEK. A WEAK FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SAG INTO THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY...LINGER FOR A DAY OR TWO...THEN DISSIPATE OR LIFT N BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THERE REMAINS SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TOO HOW FAR S ANY BOUNDARY WILL MAKE IT (TYPICAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR)...BUT CHANCE POPS ARE AT LEAST WARRANTED...WITH BEST CHANCES RUNNING FROM TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD BACK IN LATE IN THE WEEK AND INTO NEXT WEEKEND...WITH MORE SEASONAL TEMPS IN STORE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 75 96 77 94 / 20 0 10 10 FSM 70 94 73 94 / 20 10 10 10 MLC 72 95 74 94 / 20 0 10 10 BVO 68 95 71 94 / 20 0 10 10 FYV 67 90 69 90 / 30 0 10 10 BYV 68 91 70 89 / 30 0 10 10 MKO 70 93 72 93 / 20 0 10 10 MIO 68 94 73 93 / 30 0 10 10 F10 73 94 73 93 / 20 0 10 10 HHW 72 95 74 94 / 10 10 10 10 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...21 LONG TERM....18
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 454 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-061000- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 443 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. DISCUSSION... ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING EAST OF HIGHWAY 75 IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION WILL SUPPORT A THREAT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THOSE WITH OUTDOOR PLANS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO ISOLATED STORMS AND FIND SHELTER IF LIGHTNING DEVELOPS. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS. MONDAY...NO HAZARDS. TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING A FEW DAYS OF QUIET WEATHER BEFORE THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE REGION DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. A RETURN TO HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN BY THE END OF THE WEEK. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
551 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008
ARZ019-020-029-052330-
CRAWFORD AR-FRANKLIN AR-SEBASTIAN AR-
551 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
NORTHEASTERN SEBASTIAN AND WESTERN FRANKLIN
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD
AT 551 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES
WEST OF MULBERRY...REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PLEASANT HILL
...PINEY...MULBERRY...CECIL...ALMA AND DYER.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
LAT...LON 3563 9403 3543 9393 3538 9418 3554 9426
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 256DEG 8KT 3550 9409SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
608 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008
ARZ020-060000-
FRANKLIN AR-
608 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
SOUTHERN FRANKLIN
AT 608 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
PETER PENDER...REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL
BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...CHARLESTON...BRANCH...
PETER PENDER...MEG AND CECIL.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
LAT...LON 3539 9380 3532 9380 3531 9381 3531 9390
3529 9391 3527 9404 3546 9403 3547 9378
3539 9378
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 270DEG 10KT 3537 9392The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew down trees and blew part of a roof off a restaurant.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Heavy rain caused Glade Creek to flood. Water from the creek was a foot deep on Highway 412.
Strong thunderstorm wind damaged a marina on Beaver Lake near Lost Bridge Village and blew down several trees.
Heavy rain caused Highway 62 near Garfield to be closed due to high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, July 2008
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: 126389, 126391, 126394, 128451, 126398.