Daytime heat and humidity aided in the development of thunderstorms on the 4th and 5th. A few of the storms became severe.
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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.
Daytime heat and humidity aided in the development of thunderstorms on the 4th and 5th. A few of the storms became severe.
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 4, 5:22 PM CST, 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 622 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2011 .AVIATION... HIGH PRESSURE WILL ALLOW PERSISTENCE TO RULE...WITH SKC AND OCCASIONAL HAZE AROUND SUNRISE. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SWITCH DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS TO MORE WEST/NORTHWEST AS THE HIGH MOVES OVERHEAD...BUT WILL REMAIN LIGHT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 135 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2011/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT BASICALLY SAME STORY AS IN PREVIOUS DAYS WITH RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE REMAINING IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION...RESULTING IN HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WITH LIGHT WINDS ACROSS MUCH OF AR. SKIES WERE CLEAR THIS AFTERNOON...THOUGH SOME VERY ISOLATED CU WERE STARTING TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF SWRN AR. TEMPS HAD WARMED WELL INTO THE 90S...WITH SOME UPPER 90S ALREADY SEEN ACROSS ERN AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AR THUS FAR THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT A FEW MORE DEGREES BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SOME LOCATIONS PROBABLY NEARING OR CROSSING THE TRIPLE DIGIT MARK ACROSS ERN AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AR. HEAT ADV REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ERN AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AR AS HEAT INDICES REMAIN NEAR OR JUST ABOVE THE 105 DEGREE CRITERIA. THE HEAT WAVE SHOWS VERY LITTLE SIGNS OF LEAVING IN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS THE MAIN RIDGE AXIS REMAINS PARKED OVER SOME PORTION OF THE CENTRAL CONUS THROUGH THE SHORT TERM INTO A GOOD PORTION OF NEXT WEEK. THE MAIN RIDGE AXIS WILL WOBBLE A BIT WEST FOR SUN...BUT TEMPS EXPECTED TO REMAIN WELL INTO THE 90S AREA WIDE. THERE COULD BE SOME ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA ACROSS PORTIONS OF SRN AR SUN AFTERNOON...SO HAVE MENTIONED LOW END SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF PULSE TYPE ACTIVITY WITH THE RIDGE AXIS SHIFTING WEST. OTHERWISE...DO EXPECT THE MAJORITY OF AR TO REMAIN DRY PRECIP WISE. THIS RIDGE WILL REMAIN ORIENTED JUST WEST OF AR INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH TEMPS MAYBE A DEGREE OR TWO COOLER THROUGH THE END OF THE SHORT TERM. HOWEVER...THESE EVER SO SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS WILL LIKELY GO UN-NOTICED AS TEMPS WILL REMAIN WELL IN THE 90S. SOME GOOD NEWS IS THAT DEWPTS HAVE BECOME STEADILY LOWER IN THE AFTERNOON HRS...WITH DEWPTS EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE 60S DURING THE PEAK HEATING OF THE AFTERNOON. THIS WILL KEEP HEAT INDICES JUST BELOW CRITERIA FOR MUCH OF AR...BUT WILL LIKELY STILL SEE UPPER 90S TO JUST BELOW 105 DEGREE HEAT INDICES THROUGH THE SHORT TERM...BUT STILL UNCOMFORTABLE TO SAY THE LEAST. LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE EXTENDED FORECAST WILL CHANGE LITTLE WITH CONTINUED ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS. THE UPPER AND SURFACE RIDGE WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER FEATURE...WITH TEMPS IN THE 90S TO A FEW 100 DEGREE READINGS...WHILE MORNING LOWS IN THE 60S WITH SOME 70S. THE CHANCE OF RAIN WILL REMAIN QUITE LOW...WITH A LOW CHANCE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING WITH SOME WEAK SHORT WAVE ENERGY POSSIBLY MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER PART OF THE RIDGE. THURSDAY THE RIDGE APPEARS TO BUILD JUST A BIT OVER AR AND KEEPS SHORT WAVE ENERGY NORTH OF AR...WITH AGAIN VERY LOW CHANCES. FRIDAY IS SIMILAR TO THURSDAY WITH LIMITED SHORT WAVE ENERGY...BUT SOME HINT AT POSSIBLE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. INTO SATURDAY MODELS GRADUALLY PUSH THE UPPER RIDGE EAST AND ADDITIONAL AND MORE SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVE ENERGY MAY REACH AR. UNCERTAINTY DOES EXIST AND HAVE KEPT POPS JUST BELOW SLIGHT CHANCES. WITH LATER RUNS A SLIGHT CHANCE TO LOW CHANCE MAY NEED TO BE ADDED. MODELS ALSO HINT AT LOW QPF THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR ARKANSAS-DESHA- DREW-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-LINCOLN-LONOKE-MONROE-PRAIRIE-PULASKI- WHITE-WOODRUFF. && AVIATION...58
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:39 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A very isolated storm became severe, causing damage in Danville. Trees and power lines were blown down at a number of locations in town. Six residences and one car were damaged, primarily due to falling trees.
Some trees were blown down.
Trees were blown down in Hot Springs.
Hail from penny to quarter size fell.
Numerous trees were blown down along Arkansas Highway 5.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees and power lines around the 2400 block of Park Ave. (Arkansas Highway 7) in Hot Springs. Traffic came to a halt on the highway due to the fallen trees. A 25 year-old woman, who was stopped in traffic, was killed when another tree fell, crushing the cab of the pickup truck she was driving. No one else was in the vehicle.
Trees were blown down and shingles were blown off roofs. A large trampoline was wrapped around a utility pole.
A mobile home was overturned by thunderstorm winds.
Trees were blown down in Camden. One of the trees fell on the porch of a house.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind, Garland | 2011-06-05 | 25 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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: 310792, 310795, 310796, 310797, 310799, 310800, 310806, 310807, 310809, 310810.