A line of thunderstorms accompanying a cold front caused isolated severe weather on the evening of the 5th.
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A line of thunderstorms accompanying a cold front caused isolated severe weather on the evening of the 5th.
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 5, 5:42 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 542 PM CST FRI DEC 5 2014 .AVIATION... SOME BREAKS IN CLOUD COVER ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...BUT WILL FILL IN QUICKLY THIS EVENING...AND NEXT LINE OF SHOWERS APPROACHES. WITH MOISTURE REMAINING ACROSS THE REGION...HAVE KEPT MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS IN THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT INTO MORNING HOURS. MAY HAVE SOME BREAKS DURING THE AFTERNOON SATURDAY...BUT WILL NOT BE WIDESPREAD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 228 PM CST FRI DEC 5 2014/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE SHORT TERM IS TONIGHT AND INTO EARLY SATURDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE AND ITS ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE WARM FRONT HAS LIFTED NORTH THROUGH A GOOD PORTION OF THE STATE TODAY...YET A LITTLE SLOWER THAN ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED. CURRENTLY CLOUDS ARE STARTING TO THIN ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WITH SURFACE BASED CAPE VALUES CREEPING UP NEAR 1000 J/KG. CURRENTLY THE COLD FRONT SITS BACK ACROSS CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND IS NOT FORECAST TO SWEEP THROUGH CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT. HI RES MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW THE POTENTIAL FOR A LINE OF STORMS TO DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH THE STATE AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH ARKANSAS. WITH ADEQUATE SHEAR...AND INCREASING CAPE A FEW ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. BESIDES THESE ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...NOT EXPECTING MUCH IN THE WAY OF ADDITIONAL QPF TO THE CWA. COLD FRONT WILL CLEAR THE STATE BY SATURDAY MORNING WITH CLOUDS SLOW TO CLEAR AROUND THE STATE. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY WILL BE THE COOLEST OF THE SHORT TERM...YET STILL TRENDED TOWARDS THE WARMER GUIDANCE AS THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM IS CENTERED NORTH OF THE GREAT LAKES. THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE STATE ON MONDAY AND MOISTURE RETURN AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM IS WEAK. AT THIS TIME CONTINUE TO THINK JUST AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS WILL BE SEEN. LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO BE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AS FAR AS THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN IS CONCERNED MEANING THAT ONE SOLUTION CAN NOT REALLY BE FAVORED VERSUS ANOTHER. PROGRESSIVE...SPLIT STREAM PATTERN WILL BE IN PLACE WHEN PERIOD INITIALIZES WITH NORTHERN BRANCH REMAINING MUCH MORE ACTIVE VERSUS ITS SOUTHERN COUNTERPART. GENERALLY WEAK ZONAL FLOW WITH A SLIGHT NORTHWEST COMPONENT WILL PREDOMINATE OVER THE MID SOUTH WITH A WEAK TROUGH NOW EXPECTED IN THE LATE THURSDAY/THURSDAY TIME FRAME. GFS ONLY BRUSHES THE FAR NORTHWEST WITH MINIMAL QPF WHILE THERE IS NO HINT OF ANY PRECIPITATION WITH THE ECMWF. WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST NOW AND TAKE A WAIT AND SEE APPROACH AT THIS POINT. CONCERNING TEMPERATURES...UPPER FLOW REMAINS OFF THE PACIFIC OCEAN RESULTING IN TEMPERATURES AT OR A LITTLE BIT ABOVE NORMAL. OVERALL THE MAV/MEX NUMBERS LOOK REASONABLE AND ARE GENERALLY ACCEPTED. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 815 AM CST FRI DEC 5 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-061100- 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- 815 AM CST FRI DEC 5 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FOG WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING AND WILL BE DENSE IN SPOTS. AREAS OF VISIBILITY OF LESS THAN 1 MILE ARE LIKELY UNTIL THE FOG FINALLY DOES LIFT. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION IF TRAVELING THIS MORNING. A STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH ARKANSAS THROUGH THE DAY WITH PERIODS OF RAIN EXPECTED. WHILE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO CAN NOT BE DISCOUNTED...THE OVERALL THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN LOW. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE UNDER AN INCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANY REMAINING RAIN WILL PUSH OUT OF ARKANSAS SATURDAY MORNING. THEN AN OVERALL DRY PATTERN WILL SET UP FOR THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. THE NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN WILL BE MID NEXT WEEK BUT AMOUNTS WILL BE MINIMAL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE LOW THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 59/56
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:03 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees, one of which fell into a house, destroyed a shed, damaged dugouts, and blew merchandise around at a lumberyard.
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