The approach of a cold front triggered the development of a line of thunderstorms in eastern and southern Arkansas on the 20th. One storm became severe.
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The approach of a cold front triggered the development of a line of thunderstorms in eastern and southern Arkansas on the 20th. One storm became severe.
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 Feb 20, 11:30 AM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
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
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CST THU FEB 20 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211100- 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 CST THU FEB 20 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE TODAY...BRINGING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...GUSTY WINDS WILL BRING WARMER TEMPERATURES. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA...WITH WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 35 MPH. THE TIMING OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN CONCERN. THE HIGHEST CONCERNS FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE EAST OF THE STATE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE. AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...RAIN CHANCES WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST. WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHWEST BEHIND THE FRONT...AND GRADUALLY SUBSIDE THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 58
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:33 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The brick storefront on an old, unoccupied store collapsed. Chert St. was closed due to bricks in the road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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