The White and Cache Rivers continued flooding into August.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
The White and Cache Rivers continued flooding into August.
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 Jul 31, 11:38 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1238 AM CDT SAT AUG 1 2015 .AVIATION... HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. HIGH CIRRUS CLOUDS CONTINUE TO SPREAD OVER THE STATE FROM CONVECTION OVER TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA. THESE CLOUDS WILL DISSIPATE SOMEWHAT BY SUNRISE. VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 805 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2015/ AVIATION... OTHER THAN SOME HIGH CLOUDS...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT/SATURDAY. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE TONIGHT AND EAST/NORTHEAST AT 6 TO 12 MPH ON SATURDAY. IN PARTS OF THE OZARK MOUNTAINS...WINDS ON SATURDAY WILL BE WEST/NORTHWEST AT 4 TO 8 MPH. (46) DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERNS THIS FORECAST CYCLE ARE ANY CHANCES OF CONVECTION THROUGH THE PERIOD...THEN A GRADUAL WARM UP INTO NEXT WEEK. ALTHOUGH AN UPPER NW FLOW SETS UP FOR PART OF THE REGION...AND SOME POSSIBLE SHORT WAVE ENERGY COULD MOVE CLOSE TO AR...AND DEVELOP ISOLATED CONVECTION AS TEMPS WARM LATE INTO THE WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK. TODAY A DRIER AND MILDER AIRMASS HAS FILTER INTO AR WITH A NE TO E SURFACE FLOW. ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE IN FAR WEST AR BASED ON CURRENT AND EXPECTED TRENDS...ALTHOUGH CURRENTLY ONLY WEAK CONVECTION IS SEEN OVER EASTERN OK. SOME UPPER SHORT WAVE ENERGY...ALBEIT WEAK...IS SEEN IN THE UPPER NW FLOW. LOCALIZED INSTABILITY REMAINS WHERE THURSDAY CONVECTION SET UP OVER WESTERN AR. OTHERWISE...TEMPS WERE A BIT COOLER TO AROUND NORMAL VALUES THIS AFTERNOON. SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE EVENING FOR FAR WESTERN AR...OTHERWISE A DRY FORECAST WITH A WARMING TREND FOR THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE UPPER RIDGE DOES MOVE A BIT MORE WEST...BUT STILL HAS INFLUENCE OVER AR WITH SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE. ALOFT A BROAD UPPER TROUGH WILL BE OVER THE EASTERN U.S. AND MUCH OF ANY SHORT WAVE ENERGY DOES STAY NORTH OF AR IN THE MODEL GUIDANCE...BUT AN ISOLATED STORM MAY BE SEEN. CONVECTION AT THIS TIME WOULD BE LOW AND ISOLATED AND WILL NOT INCLUDE TO EARLY NEXT WEEK. TEMPS WILL SLOWLY WARM OVER THE SHORT TERM AND BE A BIT ABOVE NORMAL VALUES...BUT SHOULD HOLD BELOW 100 DEGREES. MOISTURE WILL ALSO SLOWLY RETURN INTO NEXT WEEK...BUT DO NOT EXPECT ANY HEAT ADVISORIES UNTIL NEXT WEEK. LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT... THE REGION WILL REMAIN UNDER THE NERN EDGE OF AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE DURING THE EXTENDED TERM...WITH A PREDOMINANT NWLY FLOW. ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LIKELY DROP DOWN ACROSS THE AREA LATE IN THE TERM. TIMING IS A BIT UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME...AND FOR THE MOMENT I WILL TEND TO DEFER MORE TOWARD A FRIDAY TO FRIDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME...WHICH WOULD BRING INCREASING CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION TO THE STATE. THE MAIN EFFECT OF THE FRONT...LIKE THE LAST ONE THAT PASSED THROUGH...WOULD BE SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES AND LOWER DEWPOINTS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 93 69 94 71 / 0 10 10 10 CAMDEN AR 96 69 98 72 / 0 0 0 0 HARRISON AR 91 67 92 69 / 0 10 10 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 96 69 96 72 / 0 0 10 0 LITTLE ROCK AR 95 71 97 72 / 0 10 0 0 MONTICELLO AR 94 70 97 72 / 0 0 0 0 MOUNT IDA AR 95 67 95 70 / 0 0 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 92 67 92 68 / 0 10 10 0 NEWPORT AR 92 69 94 71 / 0 0 10 0 PINE BLUFF AR 94 69 96 71 / 0 0 0 0 RUSSELLVILLE AR 95 68 96 71 / 0 10 10 0 SEARCY AR 94 69 95 71 / 0 0 10 10 STUTTGART AR 93 70 95 71 / 0 0 0 0 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...51
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT FRI JUL 31 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011000- BOONE-MARION-BAXTER-FULTON-SHARP-NEWTON-SEARCY-STONE-IZARD- INDEPENDENCE-JOHNSON-POPE-VAN BUREN-CLEBURNE-JACKSON-LOGAN-CONWAY- FAULKNER-WHITE-WOODRUFF-SCOTT-YELL-PERRY-POLK-MONTGOMERY-GARLAND- SALINE-PULASKI-LONOKE-PRAIRIE-MONROE-PIKE-CLARK-HOT SPRING-GRANT- JEFFERSON-ARKANSAS-DALLAS-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-DESHA-OUACHITA-CALHOUN- BRADLEY-DREW- 500 AM CDT FRI JUL 31 2015 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...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY 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. 51
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 July, falling below flood stage during the morning hours of the 2nd.
The White River at Augusta remained above flood stage from July, falling below flood stage during the afternoon hours of the 15th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, August 2015
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: 596450, 596451.