Area rivers within the White River Basin continued to flood as a result of heavy spring rainfall in April.
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Area rivers within the White River Basin continued to flood as a result of heavy spring rainfall in April.
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 May 1, 12:00 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 100 AM CDT THU MAY 1 2014 .AVIATION...01/06Z TAF CYCLE VFR CONDS WL PREVAIL THRU THE FCST PD. CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT WL BRING SOME MID CLOUDS SWD ACRS THE AREA AT TIMES LATER TODAY. /44/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 249 PM CDT WED APR 30 2014/ DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERNS THIS FORECAST CYCLE ARE FIRST PERIOD CLOUDS AND ANY LOW CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN OR JUST SPRINKLES. COLDER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL BE SEEN...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THEN A DRY FORECAST WILL LAST INTO THE WEEKEND WITH WARMING TEMPERATURES. THE CLOUD SHIELD FROM THE STRONG UPPER LOW CONTINUES OVER THE AR. THE CLOUDS ARE MOVING SE BUT HAVE SEEN VERY LITTLE THINNING THROUGH THE DAY. WILL HOLD MORE CLOUDS IN THE EVENING FORECAST AND OVERNIGHT UNTIL THE UPPER LOW MOVES EAST. ISOLATED SPRINKLES OR LIGHT RAIN HAVE BEEN NOTED...BUT COVERAGE HAS BEEN VERY LOW. CURRENT TRENDS SHOW SOME OVER SOUTHERN MO AND NW AR. SHORT RANGE MODELS DO CONTINUE TO SHOW SOME SPOTTY LIGHT RAIN OR SPRINKLES... SO WILL KEEP IN FORECAST OVER NORTHERN AR THIS EVENING TO OVERNIGHT. ALSO DUE TO CLOUDS AND COOLER AIR ADVECTION...AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES HAVE ONLY REACHED THE 50S STATEWIDE. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE BEEN ELEVATED ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN AR...AND HAVE BEEN HITTING 10 TO 20 MPH. ALOFT THE UPPER LOW WAS STILL ROTATING OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST AND ONLY MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST. THIS WILL IMPACT THE WEATHER FOR ANOTHER DAY OR SO. SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WILL KEEP THE CLOUDS AND LOW CHANCES OF LIGHT RAIN THIS EVENING AND INTO MUCH OF THE OVERNIGHT. MUCH COLDER THAN NORMAL LOWS TONIGHT WITH MID TO UPPER 30S NORTH...40S ELSEWHERE. ON THURSDAY THE LOWER CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE MORE EAST AND AT LEAST WESTERN TO CENTRAL AREAS SHOULD SEE MORE SUNSHINE. THE NORTHEAST CLOUD STILL SEE SIGNIFICANT CLOUDS. HIGHS ON THURSDAY WILL REACH THE 60S TO LOWER 70S SOUTH. NW TO W WINDS WILL REMAIN A BIT ELEVATED AT 10 TO 20 MPH. BY FRIDAY THE UPPER LOW IS OFF TO THE EAST AND LITTLE SURFACE IMPACT OVER AR WILL BE SEEN. ALTHOUGH SOME INCREASED HIGH CLOUDS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THE UPPER TROUGH FROM THE LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS AR...BUT NO RAIN IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HIGHS ON FRIDAY WILL BE MAINLY IN THE 70S WITH A LIGHT W TO SW SURFACE FLOW. OVER THE WEEKEND...THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES TO THE US EAST COAST...WHILE UPPER RIDGING BEGINS TO PUSH INTO THE PLAINS. TEMPERATURES WILL REACH SOME 80S OVER THE WEEKEND WITH THE DRY WEATHER CONTINUING. LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY UPPER RIDGE WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA FOR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL SHOW A WARMING TREND. BY THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...A STORM SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP TO ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...BUT WILL REMAIN WEST OF THE AREA. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT WED APR 30 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- 500 AM CDT WED APR 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 44
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Cache River at Patterson remained above flood stage from heavy rainfall back in April. This river remained above flood stage for much of May before finally dropping back below flood stage during the morning hours of the 27th.
The White River at Augusta remained above flood stage from heavy rainfall back in April. This river remained above flood stage for much of May before finally dropping back below flood stage during the early morning hours of the 26th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 518015, 518016.