The Cache River continued to flood from late July as a result of heavy rainfall in July.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
The Cache River continued to flood from late July as a result of heavy rainfall in July.
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 Jul 31, 11:49 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1249 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2014 .AVIATION... NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES OVER THE AREA. LOW CLOUDS AND FOG ARE EXPECTED OVER THE STATE THROUGH THE NIGHT. CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES WILL LOWER THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. IFR AND LIFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED IN THE EARLY MORNING THEN VFR THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OVERCAST CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD WITH SOME BREAKING UP LATE IN THE PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 645 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2014/ AVIATION... THE UPPER SYSTEM CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION AND BRING MVFR CEILINGS AND PATCHY AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN. OTHERWISE VFR CEILINGS WILL BE SEEN THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT WITH THE AREAS OF MVFR. LATE TONIGHT TO AROUND SUNRISE FRIDAY...WITH THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER AR...AREAS OF IFR FOG AND CEILINGS WILL BE SEEN AND AFFECT TAF SITES. AFTER SUNRISE...THE LOWER CEILINGS AND FOG WILL GRADUALLY THIN AND DISSIPATE. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT FROM THE NE TO E...AND THEN ON FRIDAY BECOME 5 TO 10 MPH. (59) PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 252 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2014/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AS SYSTEM OVER TEXAS MOVES SOUTHEAST...WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA. AS THE SYSTEM SLOWLY MOVES AWAY FROM THE STATE...RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE...BUT WILL KEEP SMALL CHANCES...OR AT LEAST DRIZZLE...IN THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WITH THE RAINFALL ACROSS THE NORTH AND LIGHT WINDS...HAVE ADDED PATCHY FOG TO THE NORTH THROUGH MID MORNING. HAVE KEPT SMALL RAIN CHANCES GOING FRIDAY...WITH MOISTURE REMAINING ACROSS THE REGION AND THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE JUST TO THE SOUTH. DO EXPECT SOME MORE BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER...WITH TEMPERATURES WARMER THAN TODAY. NORTHERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND...AS BROAD UPPER TROUGH REMAINS ACROSS THE EAST. SMALL RAIN CHANCES WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE SOUTH...WITH MOISTURE REMAINING NEAR THE GULF. BY LATE IN THE SHORT TERM...THE UPPER RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST...AND ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 80S. LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A WARMING TREND WILL BE IN PROGRESS AS UPPER RIDGE TO THE WEST SLOWLY EXPANDS EWD OVER THE REGION. AS A RESULT...PRECIP CHANCES WILL BE LOW...BUT TEMPS WILL LIKELY BE INCREASING BACK TO AROUND NORMAL EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WARMING TREND WILL BE FAIRLY SHORT LIVED AS ANOTHER UPPER SHORTWAVE WILL BE DROPPING SE ACROSS THE PLAINS BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH A FRONT PUSHING SOUTH TOWARDS AR. HAVE PRECIP CHANCES RETURNING BY THU MORNING...WITH BEST CHANCES SO FAR DURING THU AND THU NIGHT OF NEXT WEEK. AS A RESULT OF THE INCREASED PRECIP CHANCES...EXPECT TEMPS TO DROP BACK BELOW NORMAL. THIS TREND LOOKS TO CONTINUE THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 82 62 86 64 / 20 10 20 10 CAMDEN AR 80 66 88 67 / 30 10 20 10 HARRISON AR 83 61 83 62 / 20 10 10 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 81 66 86 66 / 20 10 10 10 LITTLE ROCK AR 83 67 87 68 / 20 10 20 10 MONTICELLO AR 79 66 85 68 / 30 20 30 10 MOUNT IDA AR 81 62 87 62 / 20 10 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 84 62 84 63 / 20 10 10 10 NEWPORT AR 83 64 85 64 / 20 10 20 10 PINE BLUFF AR 80 66 84 66 / 30 20 20 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 85 63 88 64 / 20 10 10 10 SEARCY AR 82 65 88 66 / 20 10 20 10 STUTTGART AR 83 67 85 67 / 30 20 20 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...51
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 930 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2014 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- 930 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION AND BRING RAIN TO ARKANSAS. MOST OF THE RAIN WILL BE LIGHT TO VERY LIGHT...AND GENERALLY OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. AREAS OF FOG...DENSE IN SPOTS... WILL FORM TONIGHT AND REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE MILE IN SPOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AREAS OF FOG...DENSE IN SPOTS...WILL BE SEEN EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. THE FOG IS EXPECTED TO THIN AND DISSIPATE BY MID MORNING. OTHERWISE LIGHT RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE IN MAINLY SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL SECTIONS FRIDAY BEFORE COMING TO AN END AS THE SYSTEM PUSHES EAST OF ARKANSAS. SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY IS EXPECTED TO BE DRY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 51/59
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Cache River at Patterson remained above flood stage from late July, then fell below flood stage during the morning hours on the 1st.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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