Heavy rainfall caused the Ouachita River at Camden to rise above flood stage during the morning hours of the 26th. This river remained above flood stage into May.
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Heavy rainfall caused the Ouachita River at Camden to rise above flood stage during the morning hours of the 26th. This river remained above flood stage into May.
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 Apr 26, 5:30 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 630 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2015 .AVIATION... MVFR FLIGHT CONDITIONS WILL GRADUALLY SPREAD OVER ALL OF NORTHERN AND PARTS OF CENTRAL AR. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTHERN AR. ALSO A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHWARD THROUGH AR TODAY AND SWITCH WINDS FROM THE S TO THE NW TO N THEN EVENTUALLY N TO NE. WIND SPEEDS WILL BE FROM 5 TO 15 MPH. LATE IN THE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING...THE MVFR CEILINGS ARE EXPECTED TO THIN AND RAISE TO VFR CONDITIONS. LATE EVENING...ISOLATED SHOWERS MAY BE SEEN OVER SW AR. (59) && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 401 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2015/ .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT LARGE AREA OF STRATUS MOVING INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS...BEHIND A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. THE CLOUD COVER WILL GRADUALLY LIFT TODAY...BUT WILL REMAIN ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS FOR MUCH OF THE MORNING. CLOUDS ARE ALSO MOVING NORTH FROM THE GULF COAST...BUT WILL NOT BLOCK MUCH OF THE SUNSHINE ACROSS THE SOUTH TODAY. LARGE UPPER TROUGH OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST WILL BECOME CLOSED OFF LATER TODAY...AND SLOWLY MOVE EAST THROUGH MID WEEK. AS THE UPPER JET MOVES INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...THERE WILL BE ENOUGH LIFT TO PRODUCE SHOWERS/ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THE COLD FRONT THAT WILL SLOW DOWN/STALL OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS LATER TODAY. SOME SHORT TERM GUIDANCE IS INDICATING A MORE EASTWARD TREND OF CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON...AND ADDED ISOLATED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS TO THE FAR SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON. RAIN CHANCES WILL INCREASE TONIGHT ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE AS STORMS THAT DEVELOP IN TEXAS/OKLAHOMA MOVE EAST. THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA IS IN A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS...WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY CONCERN. AS THE UPPER LOW SLOWLY MOVES EAST...RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE...BUT THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL WILL BECOME MORE ISOLATED. RAIN AMOUNTS THROUGH MID WEEK WILL GENERALLY BE LESS THAN 1.5 INCHES FOR AREAS SOUTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER...WITH AMOUNTS MUCH LESS ACROSS NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. DRY CONDITIONS WILL RETURN AREA WIDE WEDNESDAY...AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LONG TERM. && .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY OVERALL THE EXTENDED FORECAST WILL BE DRY WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL VALUES. ON THURSDAY THE UPPER LOW PRESSURE TROUGH IS MOVING OUT OF THE REGION...AS SURFACE AND UPPER HIGH PRESSURE GRADUALLY BUILD IN THROUGH FRIDAY. ON SATURDAY...THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE MOVES MORE SE OF AR BUT REMAINS THE MAIN INFLUENCE OVER THE REGION. THIS PATTERN WILL BRING PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES DURING THE DAY... WHILE PARTLY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL BE START A BIT COOLER THAN NORMAL...THEN WARM TO AT OR A BIT ABOVE NORMAL VALUES IN THE WEEKEND. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...58 / LONG TERM...59
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-271000- 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 SUN APR 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THIS AFTERNOON ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE CONVECTION WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE ENERGY MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM NORTHEAST TEXAS. TONIGHT ADDITIONAL CONVECTION WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS AGAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND ADDITIONAL UPPER ENERGY FROM A STRONG UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER WEST TEXAS. THIS SET UP WILL DEVELOP AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORM THREAT OVER WESTERN TO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY STORM THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION ON MONDAY AS THE UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES FROM TEXAS...THROUGH ARKANSAS ON TUESDAY...AND PUSHING EAST OF THE REGION BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE SEEN AT TIMES... ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN TO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ON MONDAY...THEN TRANSITIONING TO MAINLY FAR SOUTHERN ARKANSAS ON TUESDAY. THE MAIN SEVERE STORM THREATS WILL REMAIN DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ALSO HEAVY RAIN WILL BE SEEN WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHWEST AND FAR SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. DRY WEATHER WILL THEN RETURN TO ARKANSAS ON WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE STORM THREAT. STORM REPORTS ARE ALWAYS REQUESTED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 59
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall caused the Ouachita River at Camden to rise above flood stage during the morning hours of the 26th. This river remained above flood stage into May.
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