As of early September, severe drought covered only a tiny portion of southeast Arkansas.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 LZK wrote it up.
As of early September, severe drought covered only a tiny portion of southeast 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 7, 5:30 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 630 AM CDT TUE SEP 7 2010 .AVIATION... ISOLATED SHRA DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST...AND TSRA DEVELOPING BEHIND THE FRONT ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. HAVE A TEMPO TSRA GROUP FOR NORTHERN SITES FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS. FARTHER SOUTH...IT WILL BE A SHRA/VCTS PATTERN...WITH THE REMNANTS OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM. SHRA/VCSH IS IN THE TAF THROUGH 08/00Z...AND THEN VFR CONDITIONS AS CONVECTION MOVES CLOSER TO THE CENTER DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 340 AM CDT TUE SEP 7 2010/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT INCRSG SLY LOW LVL FLOW OVR THE PAST 24 HRS HAS BROUGHT WARMER AND MORE HUMID AIR BACK NWD INTO AR. EARLY MRNG TEMPS WERE IN THE 70S...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S AND LOWER 70S. CLOUDS CONTS TO INCRS AS WELL FM THE SW OVERNIGHT...ASSOCD WITH TS HERMINE WHICH WAS CENTERED TO THE NW OF KBRO. MEANWHILE...A CDFNT WAS NW OF AR... ROUGHLY ALONG THE I-44 CORRIDOR. MAIN FCST CONCERN IN THE COMING DAYS WL CONT TO FOCUS ON THE REMNANTS OF HERMINE AND THE EVENTUAL TRACK OF THE SYS. MODELS/NHC GUIDANCE RMN IN DECENT AGREEMENT TAKING THE SYS ARND THE WRN PERIPHERY OF THE UPR RDG...TRACKING IT NWD THRU CNTRL TX...WRN OK AND EVENTUALLY JUST N OF KMKC LATE THU. THE AFOREMENTIONED CDFNT WL DROP SLOLY SEWD AND IS EXPECTED TO STALL OVR NRN AR BY WED. CONTD TO FAVOR A BLEND OF THE GFS AND ECMWF SOLUTIONS DURG THE PD. AS HERMINE TRACKS NWD...ABUNDANT TROPICAL MOISTURE WL CONT TO ADVECT INTO AR. THE MOISTURE WL INTERACT WITH THE CDFNT THRU WED TO PRODUCE MAINLY SCTD SHRA/TSRA. THE BETTER RAIN CHCS WL BE OVR WRN AR... CLOSER TO THE EXPECTED TRACK OF HERMINE. ACTIVITY WL TEND TO DIMINISH AT NGT AND BE CONCENTRATED ARND THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION. BY THU...THE STORM SYS WL TAKE A MORE NEWD TRACK ACRS ERN KS AND WRN MO. THE FNTL BNDRY WL BEGIN TO LIFT BACK NWD AS WELL...PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTION. CONTD TO INDC LIKELY POPS OVR NRN AR THU...WITH LESSER CHCS TO THE S. WITH THE TROP SYS/S PATH RMNG TO THE NW OF AR...APPEARS THE THREAT FOR HVY RAINFALL WL STAY OVR OK AND KS. ANY DEVIATION IN THE TRACK COULD BRING HEAVIER RAIN AMTS TO PARTS OF NWRN AR AND WL BE CLOSELY MONITORED IN THE COMING DAYS. UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS WL PREVAIL FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PD. WDLY SCTD MAINLY AFTN AND EARLY EVENING SHRA/TSRA WL BE NOTED OVR THE FA ON FRI. A NEW CDFNT IS FCST TO APCH THE MID SOUTH FM THE NW AND IMPACT THE REGION MAINLY BEYOND THIS FCST PD. LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS SYSTEM IN THE SHORT TERM MOVES EAST...HIGH PRESSURE WILL STRENGTHEN ALONG THE GULF COAST. AT THE UPPER LEVELS...ARKANSAS WILL BE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE RIDGE UNDER ZONAL FLOW. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH FROM THE SATURDAY...BUT DUE TO THE ZONAL FLOW...WILL LIKELY STALL ACROSS THE STATE. HAVE CONTINUED CHANCE POPS ON SATURDAY...WITH THE HIGHEST POPS IN THE NORTH. DUE TO THE SYSTEM STALLING...HAVE ONLY INCLUDED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE STATE ON SUNDAY. HIGH PRESSURE AND ZONAL FLOW WILL CONTINUE FOR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK...WITH TEMPERATURES ABOVE NORMAL. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT TUE SEP 7 2010 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-081000- 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 CDT TUE SEP 7 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CLOUDS WILL INCREASE TODAY...AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE STATE FROM THE NORTH...AND TROPICAL STORM HERMINE MOVES NORTH FROM SOUTH TEXAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING ACROSS THE NORTH AND WEST...DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF THESE SYSTEMS. DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...RAIN CHANCES WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE STATE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM HERMINE MOVE NORTH WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE NATURAL STATE. THE BEST RAIN CHANCES AND HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTH AND WEST...AND WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT OF THE TRACK OF HERMINE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE STATE COULD RANGE FROM HALF OF AN INCH TO ONE INCH...WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. LESSER AMOUNTS ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR THE SOUTH AND EAST. AS THE TROPICAL SYSTEM MOVES EAST AND AWAY FROM THE STATE BY THE END OF THE WEEK...HIGH PRESSURE WILL STRENGTHEN ACROSS THE GULF COAST. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE STATE THIS WEEKEND...BUT DUE TO THE STRENGTH OF THE HIGH...THE FRONT WILL LIKELY STALL ACROSS THE NATURAL STATE...WITH SMALL RAIN CHANCES IN THE FORECAST FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 58
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
As of September 7th, severe drought covered only a small part of Desha County, in areas close to the Mississippi River. By the 14th, severe drought had spread across almost all of the county, and these conditions continued through the end of the month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 259087.