Heavy rain and dam releases pushed the White River at Georgetown above flood stage at the end of March.
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Heavy rain and dam releases pushed the White River at Georgetown above flood stage at the end of March.
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 Mar 27, 11:43 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1243 AM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. MID AND HIGH CLOUDS MOVING ACROSS THE STATE...WITH A STRATOCU DECK OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI. WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND STALL WEDNESDAY...WITH MOISTURE POOLING ACROSS THE NORTH. HAVE INCLUDED CU DEVELOPMENT DURING THE LATE MORNING INTO AFTERNOON HOURS. SHORT TERM MODELS ARE HINTING AT MCS DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT JUST AFTER THIS TAF CYCLE...AND WILL HAVE TO MONITOR. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 238 PM CDT TUE MAR 27 2012/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT VERY LITTLE CHANGE MADE TO THE SHORT TERM PERIODS. LONGWAVE RIDGING WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PREDOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE FOR A FEW MORE DAYS...BEFORE CONTRACTING TO THE EAST AND ALLOWING SOUTHWEST UPPER FLOW TO DEVELOP AGAIN. THROUGH THURSDAY AT LEAST...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES WELL ABOVE CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMS...WITH LOWS IN THE 50S AND 60S... AND HIGHS MOSTLY IN THE 80S. AS WE/VE SAID BEFORE...A FEW LOCATIONS COULD APPROACH OR EXCEED RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES. BY THURSDAY...THE AFOREMENTIONED RIDGE WILL GIVE WAY TO TROUGHING... WITH MOISTURE INCREASING LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. WITH AT LEAST SOME LEVEL OF SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING...THERE WILL BE INCREASED CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BY FRIDAY. FRIDAY WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER...WITH TEMPERATURES LARGELY IN CHECK DUE TO EXPECTED CLOUD COVER. LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MODELS DIFFER QUITE A BIT TODAY. GFS HAS AN UPPER LOW CLOSED OFF TO THE WEST OF ARKANSAS TO BEGIN THE PERIOD...WHILE THE ECMWF HAS AN OPEN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE AREA. WILL KEEP A BLEND OF THE TWO SOLUTIONS GOING AND LEAN TOWARD THE ECMWF. AN UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. SUNDAY AND A WEAK UPPER TROUGH MOVES THROUGH MONDAY. NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ENTERS THE AREA FOR TUESDAY. WILL BEGIN THE PERIOD WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FRONT STALLED NORTH OF ARKANSAS. WILL END THE PRECIPITATION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WILL BE DRY. THERE WILL BE A QUICK CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING AS A WEAK SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THE REST OF MONDAY AND TUESDAY SHOULD BE DRY AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN WITH NORTHWEST FLOW. WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-281000- 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 MAR 27 2012 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 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE FORECAST LATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. ANOTHER ROUND OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY...AS THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE REGION. .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.
Heavy rain and releases from upstream dams caused the White River at Georgetown to rise above flood stage in late March. The flooding lasted through the end of the month.
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