A series of heavy rainfall events in mid to late December and a heavy snowstorm on Christmas Day, caused the Cache River to have minor flooding.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
A series of heavy rainfall events in mid to late December and a heavy snowstorm on Christmas Day, caused the Cache River to have minor flooding.
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 Dec 31, 5:52 PM CST, 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 552 PM CST MON DEC 31 2012 .DISCUSSION... MVFR CONDITIONS WILL BECOME IFR LATER THIS EVENING...AS RAINFALL CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE STATE. BEHIND THE RAINFALL...DRIZZLE IS POSSIBLE...AND WILL HAVE TO MONITOR TEMPS FOR POTENTIAL OF FZDZ. ACROSS THE NORTH...THINK THAT THE DZ POTENTIAL WILL END BEFORE FREEZING TEMPS ARRIVE...AND HAVE LEFT FZDZ OUT OF TAFS FOR NOW. HOWEVER...THERE IS FG/FZFG POTENTIAL...AND HAVE TRENDED CONDITIONS TO LIFR TO HINT AT FOG DEVELOPMENT. CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO IMPROVE DURING THE DAY TUESDAY...BUT WILL REMAIN MVFR. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 224 PM CST MON DEC 31 2012/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO BE FAIRLY WIDESPREAD THROUGH EARLY EVENING...AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION TONIGHT... WITH RAINFALL SHIFTING A BIT EASTWARD. WIDESPREAD PRECIP SHOULD COME TO AN END AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE NORTH...BUT WITH THE BOUNDARY SLOWLY MOVING...RAIN WILL LIKELY LINGER IN THE SOUTHEAST HALF THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. BEHIND THE BOUNDARY...THE AIRMASS WILL RETAIN MOISTURE...WITH SOME PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE AND/OR FREEZING FOG POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTH LATE TONIGHT/EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. ALL PRECIP SHOULD CLEAR THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY EVENING...WITH COOLER AIR MOVING INTO THE STATE. THE COOL AIR WILL REMAIN THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK...WITH A REINFORCING SHOT DROPPING DOWN LATE WEDNESDAY/EARLY THURSDAY. LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY ABOVE AVERAGE WINTERTIME FORECAST CONFIDENCE EXISTS CONCERNING OF SENSIBLE WEATHER ELEMENTS DURING THIS PERIOD. A SPLIT UPPER FLOW WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE U.S....WITH A CONFLUENT FLOW ACROSS THE MID SOUTH. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THOUGHT THE PERIOD. COOL CONDITIONS WILL START THE PERIOD...WARMING TO NEAR NORMAL LATE. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 410 PM CST MON DEC 31 2012 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011100- 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- 410 PM CST MON DEC 31 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF FREEZING FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT IN AREAS NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 40 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...NEW YEARS DAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple heavy rain events throughout the month of December dropped 5 to 6 inches of rain. In addition, a heavy snowstorm on Christmas Day dropped 6 inches of snowfall locally, with between 8 and 12 inches of snow upstream.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, December 2012
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: 420569.