Flooding continued into June from springtime heavy rainfall over the Cache and White River basins.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Flooding continued into June from springtime heavy rainfall over the Cache and White River basins.
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 May 31, 11:34 PM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1234 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 2013 .AVIATION... AN AREA OF CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO APPROACH THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE STATE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. MOISTURE LEVELS WILL REMAIN ELEVATED AND CLOUDS WILL SLOWLY LOWER WITH TIME. ELSEWHERE ... A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE STATE DURING THE DAY. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT AS IT MOVES THROUGH. VFR TO OCCASIONAL MVFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ESPECIALLY ALONG THE FRONT ITSELF. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHWEST AFTER THE BOUNDARY PASSES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1146 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013/ UPDATE... UPDATED ZONES TO INCREASE POPS IN THE WEST FOR TONIGHT. ALSO ADDED A NEW TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 247 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT EXTREMELY HUMID AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE IS PRESENT OVER THE AREA AT THIS TIME...BUT THE CAPPING INVERSION HAS LARGELY KEPT A LID ON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. CURRENT RADAR RETURNS ARE SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA...BUT LITTLE ELSE. PROVIDED THERE ARE SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS BEFORE SUNSET... THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. ACTIVITY SHOULD REALLY GET GOING LATE TONIGHT...AS THE LOW LEVEL JET KICKS IN AND AN UPPER WAVE MOVES INTO THE REGION FROM THE WEST. AT THE SAME TIME...SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT SLOWLY INTO THE REGION. SHOWERS/STORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...AND AT THIS POINT IT LOOKS LIKE ANY SEVERE STORMS WOULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. OVER ARKANSAS...THE TORNADO THREAT IS NOT AS HIGH AS THURSDAY. HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ANOTHER SERIOUS THREAT...PARTICULARLY AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST...GRADUALLY MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PORTION DURING THE MORNING WITH THE FRONT. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS/ STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FIRE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AGAIN...SOME STRONG/SEVERE STORMS CAN/T BE RULED OUT. THE FRONT WILL PUSH OUT OF THE REGION EARLY SUNDAY...WITH ANY LINGERING PRECIPITATION COMING TO AN END. COOLER AND DRIER WEATHER WILL FOLLOW...WITH THE PERIOD ENDING WITH LOWS IN THE 50S AND 60S AND HIGHS IN THE 70S AND 80S. A WORD OF CAUTION...WITH THE ABNORMALLY HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OVER THE REGION...THE MODELS SEEM TO BE UNDER DOING EXPECTED RAINFALL AMOUNTS. WITH THIS IN MIND...AS WELL AS SLOW OVER ALL MEAN STORM MOTION...AND THE TENDENCY OF STORMS TO FORM AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS...HAVE INCREASED EXPECTED RAINFALL AMOUNTS...PARTICULARLY OVER THE NORTH AND CENTRAL. LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SRLY FLOW WILL BE RETURNING TO THE STATE AT THE START OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD AS HIGH PRESSURE TO THE NE MOVES AWAY FROM THE STATE. FLOW ALOFT WILL BE GENERALLY ZONAL ACROSS THE STATE...WITH MOST PRECIP CHANCES REMAINING LOW. HOWEVER...FLOW ALOFT WILL BEGIN TO BUCKLE DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...TURNING GRADUALLY TO THE SW. AS THIS HAPPENS...MOISTURE LEVELS WILL BE INCREASING...AS WELL AS RAIN CHANCES AS DISTURBANCES MOVE OVERHEAD IN THIS FLOW ALOFT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 60 77 56 80 / 60 20 0 10 CAMDEN AR 63 85 59 85 / 70 30 0 10 HARRISON AR 54 75 54 79 / 20 10 0 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 61 82 59 82 / 70 20 0 10 LITTLE ROCK AR 64 82 61 83 / 70 20 0 10 MONTICELLO AR 68 84 62 86 / 70 40 0 10 MOUNT IDA AR 59 81 55 81 / 60 10 0 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 55 77 55 78 / 30 10 0 10 NEWPORT AR 61 77 57 81 / 70 20 0 10 PINE BLUFF AR 66 82 61 82 / 70 30 0 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 59 80 56 85 / 50 10 0 10 SEARCY AR 62 80 58 80 / 70 20 0 10 STUTTGART AR 65 81 62 81 / 70 20 0 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR BAXTER-BOONE-CLARK- CLEBURNE-CONWAY-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-HOT SPRING-INDEPENDENCE- IZARD-JACKSON-JOHNSON-LOGAN-LONOKE-MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY- NEWTON-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY- SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-WOODRUFF-YELL. && AVIATION...56
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1245 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 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- 1245 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS OVER THE FEW DAYS. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES TO THE AREA...AND HELP DEVELOP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THE MAIN AREAS AFFECTED TONIGHT WILL BE OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS. ONCE AGAIN SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. TORNADOES CAN BE RULED OUT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM FOR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONG STORMS...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. MANY AREAS ARE ALREADY SATURATED DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN ON THURSDAY...AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE AFOREMENTIONED UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE OFF TO THE NORTHEAST ON SATURDAY FINALLY ALLOWING A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT TO ADVANCE INTO THE STATE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE BOUNDARY AND SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN THE MAIN CONCERN. THE AREA OF CONCERN WILL BE ALONG THE BOUNDARY ITSELF AND WILL COVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS. ALL OF ARKANSAS WILL BE UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ON SATURDAY. THE STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO PUSH OUT OF ARKANSAS EARLY SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 56
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall during the spring kept the Cache River at Patterson above flood stage from April through the first half of June. The river finally fell below flood stage during the afternoon hours on the 16th.
Heavy rainfall from late May into early June caused the White River at Augusta to rise above flood stage during the evening hours on May 31st. The river remained above flood stage through the first half of June, then fell below flood stage during the early morning hours on the 15th.
Heavy rainfall from late May into early June caused the White River at Clarendon to rise above flood stage during the morning hours on the 5th, before falling below flood stage during the afternoon hours on the 14th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 2013
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: 453686, 458754, 458755.