Heavy spring rainfall caused the Cache River at Patterson to flood during the month of March.
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Heavy spring rainfall caused the Cache River at Patterson to flood 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 8, 2:07 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 207 PM CST SAT MAR 8 2014 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. RAIN WILL DEVELOP BEHIND IT...BUT AT THIS POINT...IT LOOKS THAT PRECIP WILL BE FAIRLY LIGHT...AND INSTABILITY WILL BE NEGLIGIBLE. THUS...LITTLE IF ANY THUNDER IS EXPECTED. ANY LINGERING PRECIP SHOULD BE OVER WITH SUNDAY MORNING. HIGH PRESSURE FOLLOWING THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH RATHER QUICKLY... WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING INTO THE 70S ON MONDAY. TUESDAY MAY EVEN BE A DEGREE OR TWO WARMER...WITH SOME LOCATIONS OVER THE SOUTH POSSIBLY APPROACHING 80 DEGREES. CLOUDS WILL INCREASE TUESDAY...AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW APPROACHES FROM THE SOUTHWEST...AND A SURFACE LOW AND ATTENDANT FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. AT THIS POINT...LITTLE IN THE WAY OF PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED THEN...AS DEEP-LAYER MOISTURE WILL NOT BE ALL THAT IMPRESSIVE...AND SUBSIDENCE NORTHWEST OF THE UPPER LOW WILL NOT ALLOW FOR MUCH FORCING AHEAD OF THE FRONT. && .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY UPPER TROUGH WILL BE DIGGING SOUTH ACROSS THE PLAINS AND INTO AR AT THE START OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD...RESULTING IN DEEPENING SFC LOW PRESSURE TO THE EAST OF THE STATE. AS THIS HAPPENS...MOISTURE WILL LIFT NW OVER PORTIONS OF THE STATE ON WED...WITH POPS INCREASING ACROSS THE NERN HALF OF THE STATE. RIGHT NOW...THE BEST CHANCES FOR PRECIP WILL BE NORTH AND NE OF THE STATE. UNCERTAINTIES ALSO REMAIN REGARDING HOW COLD TEMPS WILL BE DURING THIS PERIOD...BUT THERE COULD BE A SMALL WINDOW EARLY ON WED WHERE A RAIN/SNOW MIX COULD BE SEEN ACROSS THE FAR NWRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. THIS WINDOW WILL SHRINK AS THE MOISTURE BEGINS TO EXIT TO THE EAST...AS WELL AS WITH TEMPS WARMING BACK UP BY WED AFTERNOON. THIS IS STILL SEVERAL DAYS OUT...AND CHANGES WILL LIKELY BE SEEN. FOR NOW THOUGH...THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD WINTRY PRECIP REMAINS LOW FOR AR. BY THU...DRY CONDITIONS WILL BE SEEN....WITH TEMPS REMAINING JUST BELOW NORMAL. A WEAK UPPER SYSTEM WILL PASS OVER AR ON FRI...BUT MOISTURE LOOKS LIMITED ENOUGH TO KEEP ONLY SILENT POPS GOING FOR NOW. THE FORECAST WILL END ON A DRY NOTE...WITH GENERALLY ZONAL TO SLIGHT NW FLOW ALOFT OVER THE REGION. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 36 56 42 70 / 60 10 0 0 CAMDEN AR 45 59 46 71 / 60 10 0 0 HARRISON AR 31 57 41 70 / 60 10 0 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 43 58 44 70 / 60 10 0 0 LITTLE ROCK AR 43 58 44 72 / 60 10 0 0 MONTICELLO AR 45 62 48 71 / 50 10 0 0 MOUNT IDA AR 39 57 39 70 / 50 10 0 0 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 33 57 41 72 / 60 10 0 0 NEWPORT AR 36 56 44 70 / 60 10 0 0 PINE BLUFF AR 44 57 45 70 / 60 10 0 0 RUSSELLVILLE AR 39 61 38 70 / 50 10 0 0 SEARCY AR 40 56 40 68 / 60 10 0 0 STUTTGART AR 42 56 45 70 / 60 10 0 0 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...57 / LONG TERM...62
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1153 AM CST SAT MAR 8 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091000- 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- 1153 AM CST SAT MAR 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A WEAK FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH THROUGH THE STATE TONIGHT...WITH SOME SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A THUNDERSTORM EXPECTED. HOWEVER...THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL REMAIN LOW AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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. 56
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy spring rainfall caused the Cache River at Patterson to rise above flood stage during the afternoon hours of the 8th. The river then remained above flood stage for much of the month, finally falling below flood stage during the early morning hours of the 31st.
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