A small wildfire destroyed property in Baxter County northwest of Mountain Home.
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A small wildfire destroyed property in Baxter County northwest of Mountain Home.
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 24, 11:48 AM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1248 PM CDT TUE AUG 24 2010 .AVIATION... VFR CONDS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THRU THE PD. CDFNT TO THE NW OF THE FA WL EVENTUALLY WORK SWD THRU AR TNGT AND EARLY ON WED. SOME LOW LVL MOISTURE WL ACCOMPANY THE FNT...WITH MAINLY SCTD LOW CLOUDS NOTED. MVFR CIGS WL BE POSSIBLE LATE TNGT AT KHRO AND KBPK. WINDS WL BCM MAINLY NLY AT 5 TO 15 MPH BEHIND FROPA. /44/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 252 AM CDT TUE AUG 24 2010/ SHORT TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT MODELS ALL AGREE THAT PROGRESSIVE UPPER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE NATION. ECMWF/GFS SOLUTIONS SHOW LITTLE IF ANY DIFFERENCES THAT WOULD IMPACT THE MID SOUTH WHILE THE NAM IS OUT OF PHASE WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS. AS SUCH...A GFS/ECMWF COMPROMISE IS PREFERRED THIS MORNING. LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACES ONE SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA. LITTLE IF ANY DIFFERENCE WAS NOTED IN TEMPERATURE BEHIND THIS BOUNDARY BUT DEW POINTS ARE ROUGHLY 8 TO 10 DEGREES COOLER BEHIND IT AS NORTHEAST WINDS PREVAIL. ATTENTION OVER THE NEXT DAY OR SO WILL SHIFT TO THE SECOND BOUNDARY...CURRENTLY STRETCHING FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND THROUGH THE UPPER MID WEST. FEATURE CLEARLY VISIBLE ON MOISTURE CHANNEL IMAGERY THIS MORNING. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST THIS MORNING WILL EXPAND TO THE EAST...DRIVING THE SECOND FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH THE STATE. MODELS AGREE THAT BOTH MOISTURE AND FORCING ARE NEARLY ABSENT WITH THIS FEATURE WITH THE PREVAILING NORTHEAST SURFACE FLOW. BOUNDARY WILL ONLY BE ACCOMPANIED BY SOME CLOUDS AND A REINFORCING SHOT OF COOLER AND DRIER AIR. FRONT EXPECTED TO ENTER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND REACHING THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. UPPER LEVEL RIDGING AMPLIFIES OVER THE WESTERN CONUS RESULTING IN NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. PATTERN WILL DROP DEW POINTS INTO THE 50S OR POSSIBLY UPPER 40S WITH HIGHS DROPPING INTO MAINLY THE 80S BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FOR A WELCOMED AND MUCH DESERVED BREAK FROM THE PROLONGED HEAT. BOTH THE SURFACE HIGH AND UPPER RIDGE SHIFT TO THE EAST AS THE PERIOD PROGRESSES WITH SOUTHERLY SURFACE FLOW RETURNING LATE IN THE PERIOD. MOISTURE BEGINS TO RETURN LATE IN THE PERIOD AS SHORTWAVE MOVES THROUGH THE NORTHERN GULF. WILL INCREASE CLOUD COVER LATE IN THE PERIOD BUT WILL NOT INTRODUCE ANY PRECIPITATION AT THIS TIME. OVERALL MAV/MEX TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE...AND WONDERFUL...AND ARE GENERALLY ACCEPTED. LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY UPPER RIDGE WILL SHIFT TO THE EASTERN CONUS OVER THE WEEKEND...WITH SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. MODELS SHOW AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE LIFTING FROM OKLAHOMA TO MISSOURI SAT AND SUN. LOW AND MID LEVEL FLOW WILL BE VEERING AROUND TO THE SOUTH OVER THE WEEKEND...GRADUALLY INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AS IT DOES SO. INTERACTION BETWEEN THE UPPER DISTURBANCE OVER OKLAHOMA AND INCREASING MOISTURE SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR ISOLATED STORMS OVER SWRN ARKANSAS ON SAT...AND THEN OVER MUCH OF THE STATE ON SUN. UPPER LEVEL HIGH EXPANDS BACK TO THE WEST JUST A TAD EARLY NEXT WEEK AND SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION OVER THE CWA MONDAY. UPPER HEIGHTS AND H85 TEMPS DO NOT RISE VERY MUCH OVERHEAD THROUGH THE PERIOD...AND AS SUCH HAVE ADVERTISED ONLY A GRADUAL INCREASE IN AFTERNOON TEMPS. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 426 AM CDT TUE AUG 24 2010 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-250930- 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- 426 AM CDT TUE AUG 24 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A small wildfire about 2 miles northwest of Mountain Home on County Road 493 destroyed a mobile home and a bobtail truck. The residents of the mobile home escaped unharmed.
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