Many rivers across the state either remained above flood stage from November, or rose above flood stage early in December. Some locations along these rivers saw flooding persist into January.
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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.
Many rivers across the state either remained above flood stage from November, or rose above flood stage early in December. Some locations along these rivers saw flooding persist into January.
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 Nov 30, 11:56 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1156 PM CST MON NOV 30 2015 .AVIATION... FLIGHT CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT WILL BE FROM PATCHY VFR...BUT MAINLY MVFR TO LIFR CONDITIONS WITH LOW CLOUDS...FOG...AND AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SE AR THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT. OVERNIGHT...CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES WILL LOWER. WINDS WILL START FROM THE S TO SW AT 5 TO 10 MPH...THEN AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE...WINDS WILL BECOME MORE W TO NW AT 5 TO 10 MPH. FLIGHT CONDITINS WILL IMPROVE THROUGH THE DAY ON TUESDAY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 814 PM CST MON NOV 30 2015/ UPDATE... ANOTHER SHORT WAVE IS MOVING THROUGH ARKANSAS NOW WITH SOME CONVECTIVE ENHANCEMENT. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS WAVE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THE RAIN WILL SLOWLY END FROM WEST TO EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE BEST RAIN CHANCES WILL BE IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER THROUGH THE NIGHT...AND INCREASED POPS HERE. ALSO INCLUDED PATCHY FOG OVERNIGHT...WITH THE GROUND BEING SATURATED AND THE DRY AIR SLOW TO WORK INTO THE STATE FROM THE NORTHWEST. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 551 PM CST MON NOV 30 2015/ AVIATION... LOW CLOUDS...FOG...AND AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE WILL BE SEEN THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. FLIGHT CONDITIONS WILL BE FROM VFR CEILINGS...BUT MORE PROMINENT MVFR OR IFR CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY TOWARD TUESDAY AM. MOST OF THE LIGHT RAIN WILL BE OVER CENTRAL TO SOUTHERN AR. WINDS WILL BE SW TO W AT 5 TO 110 MPH...THEN AS THE COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES THROUGH AR WINDS WILL BECOME MORE W TO NW AT 5 TO 15 MPH INTO TUESDAY. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 258 PM CST MON NOV 30 2015/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT PTCHY LGT RAIN LINGERED OVR SERN AR THIS AFTN AS ANOTHER SHRTWV LIFTS OUT OF THE AREA. ELSEWHERE...JUST SOME AREAS OF DRIZZLE AND FOG NOTED. THE MERCURY HAS MANAGED A SMALL RECOVERY FM THIS MRNG/S TEMPS...WITH MID AFTN READINGS IN THE UPPER 40S AND LOWER 50S. UPR LOW WAS CENTERED OVR NEBRASKA THIS AFTN...RESULTING IN A CONTD SWLY FLOW ALOFT ACRS THE MID SOUTH. MODEL SOLUTIONS AGREE ON TAKING THE UPR STORM SYS SLOLY EWD INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION THE NEXT FEW DAYS. HOWEVER...ONE LAST SHRTWV WL PASS ACRS AR TNGT...PRODUCING ANOTHER ROUND OF LGT RAIN FOR PRIMARILY THE SERN HALF OF AR TNGT. EXPECT SOME PTCHY FOG/DRIZZLE TO AFFECT OTHER LOCATIONS THRU THE EVENING HRS BEFORE SOME DRIER AIR STARTS TO FILTER INTO THE STATE FM THE NW. THE AFOREMENTIONED UPR IMPULSE WL SHIFT E OF AR LATE TNGT/EARLY TUE MRNG...WITH A WEAK RDG OF HIGH PRES BLDG INTO THE STATE. ANOTHER WEAK SHRTWV WL PASS JUST S OF THE FA TUE NGT...WITH A SLGT CHC OF RAIN FOR THE SERN COUNTIES. THE PRIMARY PUSH OF COOLER AND DRIER AIR WL BLD SWD INTO THE MID SOUTH BY WED AS THE MAIN UPR TROF AXIS PUSHES THRU AR. DRIER AND COOLER CONDS WL PREVAIL THRU THE REST OF THE PD. LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY MODELS ARE IN DECENT AGREEMENT IN THE LONG TERM PERIOD. THE UPPER PATTERN WILL FEATURE A PROGRESSIVE...YET HIGH AMPLITUDE FLOW ALOFT. AN UPPER RIDGE WILL SHIFT FROM THE PLAINS ON FRIDAY TO THE EASTERN SEABOARD BY SATURDAY...WITH A WEST COAST TROUGH REPLACING THE RIDGE ACROSS THE CENTRAL CONUS DURING THAT TIME. EVENTUALLY THIS TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER ARKANSAS SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...BRINGING SLIGHT RAIN CHANCES BACK TO THE FORECAST. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND BEFORE THAT WEST COAST TROUGH ARRIVES. TEMPERATURES WILL HOVER RIGHT AROUND SEASONAL NORMS AS SUNSHINE ABOUNDS AND HIGH PRESSURE MOVES OVERHEAD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 39 52 36 50 / 30 10 0 0 CAMDEN AR 44 55 39 57 / 100 10 10 10 HARRISON AR 34 51 32 45 / 10 0 0 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 40 53 36 53 / 70 10 10 10 LITTLE ROCK AR 41 53 37 53 / 60 10 10 10 MONTICELLO AR 47 55 42 57 / 100 10 20 10 MOUNT IDA AR 37 54 35 51 / 50 10 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 36 52 34 47 / 20 0 0 0 NEWPORT AR 41 52 36 50 / 40 10 0 0 PINE BLUFF AR 44 53 40 54 / 90 10 10 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 38 53 34 51 / 30 0 0 0 SEARCY AR 40 52 35 52 / 40 10 10 0 STUTTGART AR 42 53 38 53 / 70 10 10 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...56
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 800 PM CST MON NOV 30 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011100- 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- 800 PM CST MON NOV 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THIS EVENING...RAIN...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN OVER ARKANSAS. THEN OVERNIGHT...LIGHT RAIN AND SHOWERS...WITH AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS AND DENSE FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE. ALSO...A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE...AND SWITCH WINDS FROM THE SOUTH TO THE SOUTHWEST TO WEST. FINALLY...DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL...A NUMBER OF RIVERS AND STREAMS IN THE LOWER ARKANSAS...BUFFALO... BLACK...SPRING...AND WHITE RIVER SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT NEARBY AREAS WITH MINOR TO MODERATE RIVER FLOODING. IF YOUR PLANS INVOLVE TRAVEL ACROSS THE STATE...PLEASE BE AWARE THAT AREA ROADS MAY STILL BE COVERED IN WATER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AREA RIVERS AND CREEKS WILL REMAIN HIGH. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT NEEDED AT THIS TIME. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 56/59
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Petit Jean River at Danville remained above flood stage from November, falling back below flood stage during the evening hours on the 1st.
The Fourche LaFave River at Houston remained above flood stage from November, falling back below flood stage during the late morning hours on the 3rd.
The Ouachita River at Camden remained above flood stage from November, falling back below flood stage during the evening hours on the 8th.
The Cache River at Patterson remained above flood stage from November and through all of December. This river continued to flood into January.
The White River at Augusta remained above flood stage from November and through all of December. This river continued to flood into January.
The White River at Clarendon remained above flood stage from November and through all of December. This river continued to flood into January.
The White River at Des Arc rose above flood stage during the early afternoon hours on the 3rd, falling back below flood stage during the morning hours on the 8th.
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, December 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: 613119, 613120, 613121, 613122, 613123, 613124, 613125.