Periodic rains during April led to continued improvement in the dry conditions over parts of western Arkansas.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Periodic rains during April led to continued improvement in the dry conditions over parts of western 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 Mar 31, 11:53 PM CST, 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1253 AM CDT MON APR 1 2013 .AVIATION... LIFR/IFR FOG DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTH...AND WILL EXPAND NORTHWARD INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT. NORTHERN SITES HAVE ENOUGH DEW POINT SPREAD TO PREVENT FOG FORMATION. FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS WILL BRING MORE CLOUD COVER TO THE NORTH AFTER 02/00Z...WITH PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE JUST AFTER THIS TAF CYCLE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 212 PM CDT SUN MAR 31 2013/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONVECTION IS WRAPPING UP AND ABOUT TO MOVE OUT OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT NO RAIN ACROSS THE STATE AFTER ABOUT 5 PM. SKIES WILL GRADUALLY CLEAR UP THROUGH THIS EVENING AND EXPECT CALM WINDS AND SOME FOG DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF I-40. UP NORTH THERE MAY BE SOME PATCHY FOG...BUT NORTH WINDS WILL PICK UP AROUND OR SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES IN FROM THE NORTH AND THIS SHOULD CAUSE ANY FOG TO DISSIPATE THEREAFTER. MONDAY WILL BE DRY AND MOSTLY SUNNY INITIALLY. TEMPERATURES WILL REBOUND NICELY IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. UPPER 60S TO MID 70S WILL BE SEEN THERE. THE EFFECTS OF COLDER AIR MOVING IN BEHIND THE AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT WILL HAMPER SUCH NOTABLE WARMING UP NORTH AND EXPECT ONLY LOW 60S THERE. AS THE DAY WEARS ON...CLOUDS WILL INCREASE FROM THE WEST AS THE NEXT SYSTEM BEGINS EXERTING INFLUENCE ACROSS ARKANSAS. MID LEVEL FORCING WILL EXTEND FROM SE KANSAS/NE OKLAHOMA ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS BY EARLY TUE MORNING...AND WILL BE SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO GENERATE SOME LIGHT PRECIP. WITH A COLD AIR MASS MOVING IN FROM THE NORTH...TEMPERATURES MAY BE COLD ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SOME SNOW MIXING IN WITH RAIN AT TIMES TUE MORNING THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. IT IS A DIFFICULT CALL AS TO WHICH WAY THIS WILL GO AS TEMPERATURES WILL BE RIGHT AROUND FREEZING BOTH AT THE SURFACE AND FOR A FAIRLY DEEP LAYER ALOFT. IT WOULD TAKE VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN TEMPERATURES TO PRODUCE NOTHING BUT A COLD RAIN. EVEN WITH THE NAM SOLUTION...WHICH IS A COLD OUTLIER AND HAS NOTABLY MORE QPF...IMPACTS SHOULD BE NEGLIGIBLE. THERE IS ENOUGH OF A SIGNAL IN AVAILABLE GUIDANCE TO GO AHEAD AND INCLUDE A RAIN/SNOW MIX NEAR THE MISSOURI BORDER ON TUESDAY AT THIS TIME. OUTSIDE OF SAYING THE WORD SNOW IN APRIL...WOULD NOT AT ALL BE SURPRISED FOR THIS PATTERN TO PRODUCE SOME SNOW UP NORTH ON TUESDAY. HOWEVER...ALSO WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF IT IS NOTHING MORE THAN A COLD RAIN. THE SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LIGHT PRECIP ON TUESDAY WILL BE THE REMNANTS OF A CLOSED LOW THAT WILL COME ONSHORE MONDAY MORNING BENEATH A LONGWAVE RIDGE OVER THE WEST COAST. THIS WILL BE A SLOW MOVING SYSTEM AS IT SHIFTS EAST AND BECOMES AN OPEN TROUGH OVER ARKANSAS BY WEDNESDAY. AS A RESULT...THE LIGHT PRECIP OBSERVED IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS ON TUESDAY WILL SLOWLY SPREAD ACROSS THE STATE TUE NIGHT THROUGH WED. TEMPERATURES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WILL BE UNSEASONABLY COOL...WITH AFTERNOON READINGS IN THE LOW 50S ON TUE AND ONLY IN THE MID 50S WED. LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL BE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE REGION AT THE START OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD...WITH WIDESPREAD SHRA EXPECTED AS THIS TROUGH TRAVERSES AR. BY THU NIGHT INTO FRI...THIS UPPER TROUGH WILL HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE STATE...WITH PRECIP CHANCES ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST. SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO THE STATE FOR FRI...WITH DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED. THIS SFC HIGH WILL MOVE EAST OF THE STATE FOR NEXT WEEKEND...WITH SRLY FLOW RETURNING. WARMING TEMPS AND INCREASING MOISTURE WILL BE SEEN AS A RESULT. KEEP THE REST OF THE FORECAST DRY AS NO SIGNIFICANT SYSTEMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION DURING THIS PERIOD. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 403 PM CDT SUN MAR 31 2013 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- 403 PM CDT SUN MAR 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH THROUGH ARKANSAS. RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE STATE AND DRIER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY...BEFORE THE NEXT FRONT MOVES INTO THE STATE MONDAY NIGHT. SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS WILL MOVE ALONG THIS FRONT...BRINGING NUMEROUS ROUNDS OF RAINFALL FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. .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. 58/51
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
At the beginning of April, severe drought was occurring over a small part of southern Polk County. Early in the month, conditions improved, with severe drought exiting the county.
At the beginning of April, severe drought was occurring over a small part of southwestern Pike County. Early in the month, conditions improved, with severe drought exiting the county.
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: 438664, 438665.