Heavy spring rains caused flooding on the White River during the month of March.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Heavy spring rains caused flooding on the White River during the month of March.
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 18, 4:18 AM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 518 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 .DISCUSSION... UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 12Z AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW... && .AVIATION... SOME PATCHY FOG WILL BE SEEN AT SOME SITES THIS MORNING WITH THE LIGHT WINDS AND RECENT PRECIP. WINDS WILL INCREASE FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR MOST LOCATIONS...WITH SOME SPOTS SEEING GUSTS APPROACHING 30 KTS. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE STATE OVERNIGHT...WITH WINDS SWITCHING TO THE WEST AND NW. SOME SHRA COULD BE SEEN ACROSS THE NRN SITES ALONG THE FRONT...SO HAVE MENTIONED VCSH FOR THIS SCENARIO. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 314 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY CLOUDS WILL CLEAR OUT LATER THIS MORNING...AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES EAST...AND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES FROM THE PLAINS. WINDS WILL INCREASE OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH SPEEDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS TO 35 MPH. THERE HAS BEEN VERY LITTLE TIME FOR SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE RETURN... AND CONSEQUENTLY LITTLE DEEP-LAYER MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. THUS... NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. WITH SOUTH WINDS IN FULL SWING...TEMPERATURES SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM REACHING THE 60S AND LOWER 70S THIS AFTERNOON. BEHIND THE FRONT...COOLER AIR WILL MOVE IN...WITH TEMPERATURES BELOW AVERAGE ON WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE PASSES THROUGH. THE SAME SCENARIO SETS UP AGAIN THURSDAY...WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES MAKING A TEMPORARY RETURN AHEAD OF ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY. HOWEVER...THIS NEXT BOUNDARY SHOULD HAVE MORE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. THUS...SHOWERS/STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AS THE FRONT MOVES IN. LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH OF THE STATE BY SAT AFTERNOON...WITH PRECIP CHANCES DECREASING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. HOWEVER...A WEAK UPPER WAVE WILL PASS OVER SRN SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WHICH COULD KEEP SOME RAIN CHANCES CONTINUING ACROSS THE SRN SECTIONS OF THE STATE INTO SUN. COOLER AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPS WILL BE SEEN BEHIND THIS FRONT FOR SUN INTO MON. BY LATE IN THE FORECAST...SRLY FLOW WILL BEGIN RETURNING...WITH TEMPS INCREASING. HOWEVER...THIS WILL BE JUST AHEAD OF YET ANOTHER FRONT THAT WILL BE APPROACHING THE STATE. FIRE WEATHER... GUSTY WINDS AND DRYING FUELS WILL ALLOW FOR INCREASED FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED TO MOSTLY STAY ABOVE 30 PERCENT. THIS...ALONG WITH THE RAIN WHICH FELL ON SUNDAY...WILL PRECLUDE ANY FIRE-RELATED HEADLINES TODAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 63 40 61 36 / 10 10 10 0 CAMDEN AR 72 42 66 38 / 10 10 10 0 HARRISON AR 64 36 57 37 / 10 10 10 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 68 44 63 38 / 10 10 10 0 LITTLE ROCK AR 66 43 64 39 / 10 10 10 0 MONTICELLO AR 68 45 64 40 / 10 10 10 0 MOUNT IDA AR 68 42 63 33 / 10 10 10 0 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 64 37 60 35 / 10 10 10 0 NEWPORT AR 63 42 61 38 / 10 10 10 0 PINE BLUFF AR 67 45 62 40 / 10 10 10 0 RUSSELLVILLE AR 68 39 63 32 / 10 10 10 0 SEARCY AR 63 42 62 36 / 10 10 10 0 STUTTGART AR 63 43 62 40 / 10 10 10 0 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LAKE WIND ADVISORY FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR 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. && AVIATION...62
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 517 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-191000- 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- 517 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL BE SEEN TODAY...WITH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH EXPECTED...AND GUSTS OVER 30 MPH POSSIBLE. ALSO...AN INCREASED WILD FIRE THREAT WILL BE SEEN...ESPECIALLY ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE WHERE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE LOWEST...IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BREEZY CONDITIONS. WINDS WILL SWITCH TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST BEHIND A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE OVERNIGHT. WHILE SOME BREEZY CONDITIONS COULD BE SEEN BEHIND THE FRONT OVERNIGHT...WIND SPEEDS WILL BE A BIT LOWER THAN DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN LOW AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 62
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall caused the White River at Augusta to rise above flood stage during the morning hours of the 18th. The river fell back below flood stage during the afternoon of the 30th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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