Flooding from heavy rainfall during the spring months continued into the summer. The White River at Augusta remained above flood stage from late April through early July.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Flooding from heavy rainfall during the spring months continued into the summer. The White River at Augusta remained above flood stage from late April through early July.
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 Jun 30, 11:26 PM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1226 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 .AVIATION... WIDESPREAD VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT ALL TERMINALS AS UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATES. SOME PATCHY FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE AROUND SUNRISE AND SCATTERED CUMULUS CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW DEVELOPING. && PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 250 PM CDT THU JUN 30 2011/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT HOT AND HUMID CONDS ONCE AGAIN THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY ACRS THE FA AS HIGH PRES ALOFT WAS CENTERED OVR THE SRN PLAINS. A FEW STORMS HAVE FORMED OVR THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF WRN AR THIS AFTN...WITH MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING. STORMS ARE FORMING VCNTY OF AN OLD FNTL BNDRY AND IN AN AREA OF INCRSD MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. THRU MUCH OF THE SHORT TERM...HIGH PRES ALOFT WL DOMINATE THE WEATHER PATTERN ACRS THE MID SOUTH. RAIN CHCS WL RMN LOW EACH AFTN/EARLY EVENING WITH COVERAGE MAINLY ISOLD IN NATURE. HIGH TEMPS WL CONT TO TOP OUT IN THE 90S EACH AFTN...WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES HOVERING JUST BLW THE CRITICAL 105 DEGREE MARK THRU THE PD. THUS... NOT PLANNING ANY HEAT HEADLINES BUT WL CONT TO CLOSELY MONITOR TRENDS THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. MODELS ARE CONTG TO INDC THAT THE UPR RDG WL BEGIN TO SLOLY RETROGRADE WWD LATER IN THE WEEKEND. THE RESULTING NWLY FLOW ALOFT WL ALLOW RAIN CHCS TO AGAIN INCRS AS A NEW FNTL BNDRY IS FCST TO DROP INTO THE FA FM THE N. PLAN TO INTRO LOW CHC POPS ATTM AND SEE HOW CONSISTENT LATER MODEL RUNS ARE. WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF WDLY SCTD CONVECTION/CLOUD COVER...TEMP FCST WL BCM MORE CHALLENGING BY THE END OF THE PD. FOR NOW...HAVE STUCK CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE THRU MUCH OF THE SHORT TERM. LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE START OF THE EXTENDED FORECAST AND FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK...THE UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE MORE WEST AND BE CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. UPPER LEVEL TROUGHING IS OVER THE EASTERN U.S...WHILE WEAK RIDGING OVER AR WILL BE SEEN...WITH THE UPPER LEVEL NORTHWEST FLOW SETTING UP FOR ARKANSAS. DUE TO THE NW UPPER FLOW...AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCES OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY...AND MORE IF A MCS WERE TO FORM UP STREAM OF AR AND MOVE OVER THE AREA. IT IS TOO EARLY IN THE MODEL RUNS TO LOCK ONTO ANY SPECIFIC SHORT WAVE ENERGY AND GO FOR MORE THAN A SLIGHT CHANCE DUE TO UNCERTAINTY...BUT AT LEAST SOME CHANCE OF STORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST. TEMPERATURES WILL START HOT ON MONDAY THEN GRADUALLY COME BACK CLOSER TO NORMAL VALUES...ESPECIALLY THOSE AREAS THAT SEE RAIN...WHILE STILL A BIT ABOVE NORMAL IN THOSE PLACES THAT DO NOT RECEIVE ANY RAIN OR SIGNIFICANT CLOUDS. ALSO A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OSCILLATES OVER THE CENTRAL TO UPPER PLAINS...BUT IS NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE MUCH INFLUENCE AT THIS TIME ON ARKANSAS WEATHER. UNCERTAINTY DOES CONTINUE TO EXIST WITH HOW MUCH THE UPPER RIDGE BREAKS DOWN...AND HOW MUCH ENERGY WILL BE PRESENT IN THE UPPER FLOW. THEREFORE CONFIDENCE IS LOW TO MEDIUM WITH THE CHANCES OF RAIN NEXT WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 71 98 74 97 / 10 10 10 20 CAMDEN AR 71 99 72 98 / 10 10 10 10 HARRISON AR 72 98 72 93 / 10 10 10 20 HOT SPRINGS AR 73 99 74 98 / 10 10 10 10 LITTLE ROCK AR 72 99 74 98 / 10 10 10 10 MONTICELLO AR 72 100 74 98 / 10 10 10 10 MOUNT IDA AR 71 98 72 98 / 10 10 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 70 97 71 95 / 10 10 10 20 NEWPORT AR 72 98 75 98 / 10 10 10 20 PINE BLUFF AR 72 99 75 98 / 10 10 10 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 71 100 73 97 / 10 10 10 10 SEARCY AR 71 98 75 98 / 10 10 10 10 STUTTGART AR 73 98 75 98 / 10 10 10 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...63 / LONG TERM...56 AVIATION...56
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 933 PM CDT THU JUN 30 2011 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- 933 PM CDT THU JUN 30 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH VERY HOT AND GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED. DAILY AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH WELL INTO THE 90S...WITH LOCATIONS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS APPROACHING OR EVEN EXCEEDING 100 DEGREES. LOW TEMPERATURES AT NIGHT ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE MID TO UPPER 70S. THE HOT TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH ELEVATED HUMIDITY LEVELS... WILL ALLOW FOR AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES TO REACH 100 TO AROUND 105 DEGREES. HEAT INDEX READINGS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS WILL LIKELY EXCEED 105 DEGREES. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED LATER BY THE WEEKEND. THE UPPER HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO BREAK DOWN EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES AND INCREASED CHANCES OF RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 28
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Record flooding occurred during the spring along the White River due to extremely heavy rainfall. The flooding at Augusta persisted for over two months, with the river finally dropping below flood stage during the morning hours of the 1st.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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