Heavy rainfall and planned reservoir releases caused the Cache and White rivers to rise above flood stage during late March and early April. One of the gauge sites remained above flood stage through the entire month of April, and even into May.
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Heavy rainfall and planned reservoir releases caused the Cache and White rivers to rise above flood stage during late March and early April. One of the gauge sites remained above flood stage through the entire month of April, and even into May.
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 31, 11:08 PM CST, 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1208 AM CDT THU APR 1 2010 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS EXPECT THROUGH THIS TAF PERIOD. SOUTH WINDS WILL PERSIST...MAINLY AT OR LESS THAN 10 KTS OVERNIGHT...THEN STRENGTHEN TOMORROW AFTERNOON. EXPECT WINDS OF 12-15 KTS...WITH GUSTS OF 18-25 KTS. COULD SEE SOME SCT CIRRUS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WINDS WILL RELAX SOME AGAIN TOMORROW EVENING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 731 PM CDT WED MAR 31 2010/ UPDATE... ALLOWED LAKE WIND ADVY AND FIRE WX WATCH TO EXPIRE ON TIME AT 00Z THIS EVENING. UPDATED HRLY ELEMENTS TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS. ALL UPDATES ARE OUT. /44/ PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 301 PM CDT WED MAR 31 2010/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT A GUSTY SOUTHERLY WIND FLOW...ALONG WITH A DRY BOUNDARY LAYER HAS PROMOTED CONDITIONS APPROACHING RED FLAG CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT SIMILAR CONDITIONS FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON...HAVE ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR THAT TIME. FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE FORECAST AREA ON FRIDAY. AT THIS TIME...FORECAST INDICATE THAT CONDITIONS MAY BE SIMILAR TO THIS PAST WEEKENDS EVENT...IN THAT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...AND INSTABILITY WILL BE LIMITED. LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE EXTENDED FORECAST STARTS WITH A FAST MOVING UPPER SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT HAVING PUSHED THROUGH AR ON SATURDAY...AND SURFACE RIDGING HAS BUILT IN OVER THE AREA FOR SUNDAY. THE UPPER PATTERN REMAINS QUITE PROGRESSIVE WITH SYSTEM AFTER SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHERN STREAM. DRY ON SUNDAY BUT THE SURFACE HIGH QUICKLY MOVES TO THE EAST AND RETURN FLOW SETS UP INTO AR BY LATE DAY AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE ECMWF QUICKLY MOVES A SHORTWAVE AND FRONT INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ON MONDAY...WHILE THE GFS HAS A SIMILAR SCENARIO BUT MUCH LESS DYNAMIC AND LESS QPF. CURRENT FORECAST HAS POP APPROACHING SLIGHT CHANCES...AND WITH UNCERTAINTY IN MODEL RUNS...WILL KEEP JUST BELOW SLIGHT CHANCE AT THIS TIME. THEN ON TUESDAY MODELS ARE FORECASTING A MAJOR SYSTEM OVER THE CENTRAL TO UPPER PLAINS...THEN PUSHING A COLD FRONT INTO AR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. CURRENT FORECAST HAS CHANCE POP ON TUESDAY TO WEDNESDAY. OVER TEMPS EXPECTED TO BE AT NORMAL TO ABOVE NORMAL VALUES THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 54 75 53 71 / 0 10 70 70 CAMDEN AR 54 77 55 75 / 10 10 70 50 HARRISON AR 53 72 49 65 / 10 20 70 40 HOT SPRINGS AR 55 75 53 73 / 10 20 70 50 LITTLE ROCK AR 57 77 56 74 / 0 10 70 60 MONTICELLO AR 55 78 57 76 / 0 10 70 70 MOUNT IDA AR 55 73 52 71 / 10 30 70 40 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 54 74 51 68 / 10 10 60 50 NEWPORT AR 56 76 55 72 / 0 10 70 70 PINE BLUFF AR 56 78 57 75 / 0 10 70 70 RUSSELLVILLE AR 54 74 52 71 / 10 20 70 40 SEARCY AR 56 76 55 72 / 0 10 70 70 STUTTGART AR 57 78 56 74 / 0 10 70 70 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM NOON CDT TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR 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. && AVIATION...62
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 815 PM CDT WED MAR 31 2010 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011000- 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- 815 PM CDT WED MAR 31 2010 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 THE FIRE DANGER WILL LOWER A BIT ON THURSDAY DUE TO AN EXPECTED INCREASE IN MOISTURE. HOWEVER...THE INGREDIENTS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE FOR A HEIGHTENED RISK OF WILDFIRES ACROSS ARKANSAS. THUS...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE STATE LATE THURSDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH ARKANSAS FROM THE WEST ON FRIDAY. AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE THROUGH THE STATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY...WITH SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA. THERE MAY BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR PRESENT AHEAD OF THE FRONT FOR A ROUND OF STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. DETAILS REGARDING THIS NEXT STORM SYSTEM REMAIN UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL BE MONITORED IN THE COMING DAYS. DRY WEATHER WILL RETURN FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING BACK UP TO THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 62/59/44
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall caused the Cache River at Patterson to remain above flood stage through the first half of April.
Heavy rainfall during late March, and additional rainfall in April allowed the White River at Augusta to remain above flood stage through April, and even into May.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, April 2010
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: 227481, 227482.