Several rivers across the area began flooding again from additional heavy rainfall during the early part of July.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Several rivers across the area began flooding again from additional heavy rainfall during the early part of July.
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 4, 11:45 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1245 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 2015 .AVIATION... OVERALL VFR FLIGHT CONDITIONS WILL BE SEEN OVERNIGHT AND SUNDAY. PATCHY AREAS OF MVFR CEILINGS AND FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AT ALL TAF SITES. ISOLATED IFR CONDITIONS MAY BE SEEN OVERNIGHT. ISOLATED CONVECTION MAY DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN AR EARLY MORNING...BUT BETTER CHANCES WILL BE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. STILL UNCERTAINTY IN CONVECTION DEVELOPMENT AND ONLY USED VCTS. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE OR SE TO SW AROUND 5 MPH. ON SUNDAY WINDS WILL BECOME MORE S TO SW AT 5 TO 10 MPH. (59) && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 239 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2015/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT AFTER SEEING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IMPACT SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THROUGH THE DAY TODAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE DIGS INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS...HAVE FINALLY BEGUN TO SEE THE RAIN SHOW SIGNS OF WEAKENING WITHIN THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THESE SHOWERS PUSH FURTHER TO THE SOUTH IN THE COMING HOURS. CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SLOWLY ERODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS ALLOWING FOR SOME DAYTIME HEATING TO BEGIN. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED INTO THE LOWER TO MID 80S IN LOCATIONS THAT HAVE BEGUN TO SEE SOME SUN. UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL EXIST ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN ARKANSAS WITH MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOWING CAPE VALUES OF OVER 2000 J/KG ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS. AS A RESULT HAVE BEGUN TO SEE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POP ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS...WITH SOME REPORTS OF COLD AIR FUNNELS IN EXTREME NE ARKANSAS IN THE CWA OF MEMPHIS. KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THIS EVENING...AND KEPT POPS OUT OF THE FORECAST AFTER 06Z. DID HOWEVER INCLUDE SOME CHANCES FOR PATCHY FOG ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT WITH LIGHT WINDS...AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE. SUNDAY...THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL RELAX A BIT...AND MODELS HINT AT SOME WEAK RIDGING. KEPT WITH THE PREVIOUS FORECAST THINKING AND DO BELIEVE THE DIURNALLY DRIVEN CHANCES FOR POPS WILL BE MINIMIZED A BIT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR A DRY DAY APPEARS TO BE ON MONDAY WITH UPPER LEVEL RIDGING REMAINING IN PLACE. CLOUDS WILL BE INCREASING ACROSS THE NW AS A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT APPROACHES WESTERN ARKANSAS. WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES INCREASING INTO TUESDAY. LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE SHOWING THE PATTERN STARTING TO RETURN TO ONE MORE TYPICAL OF SUMMER...IN OTHER WORDS THE RETURN OF THE EXPANDING BERMUDA HIGH. WITH ALL MODELS TRENDING THIS WAY...A BLEND OF SOLUTIONS WILL BE USED. FRONTAL BOUNDARY/LOW PRESSURE WILL BE OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS WHEN THE PERIOD STARTS WITH SCATTERED PRECIPITATION EXPECTED. BOUNDARY WILL ACTUALLY BE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING NORTH TAKING THE RAIN WITH IT AS THE AFOREMENTIONED BERMUDA HIGH BUILDS. WHILE AN ISOLATED DRIVEN SHOWER CAN NEVER BE RULED OUT...ODDS ARE LOW ENOUGH NOT TO INCLUDE ANY PRECIPITATION THE FORECAST AFTER WEDNESDAY/EARLY WEDNESDAY EVENING. AFTER A COOLER DAY WEDNESDAY WITH CLOUDS/PRECIP IN THE AREA...HIGHS WILL RETURN TO NEAR NORMAL LEVELS AND LOOK TO SETTLE IN THERE FOR A WHILE. MAV/NUMBERS LOOK GOOD ARE ARE GENERALLY ACCEPTED. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 540 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-051000- 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- 540 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET...WITH CHANCES LINGERING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OVER SOUTH ARKANSAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL PERSIST OVER THE REGION THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...BRINGING A SEVERAL MORE UPPER LEVEL IMPULSES ACROSS ARKANSAS. THIS WILL RESULT IN CONTINUING CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLOODING AND ELEVATED RIVER AND STREAM LEVELS. THE MAIN AREA OF CONVECTION WILL GRADUALLY PUSH SOUTH ON SUNDAY. THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED STRONG AND SEVERE STORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. RAIN CHANCES GRADUALLY DECREASE ACROSS ARKANSAS AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BUILDS BACK INTO THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE STORMS. ANY SEVERE STORM AND FLOODING REPORTS ARE REQUESTED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 59/56/44
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ouachita River at Camden rose above flood stage around midnight on the 5th, falling back below flood stage during the morning hours of the 11th.
The White River at Augusta rose above flood stage around midnight on the 5th, falling back below flood stage during the late evening hours of the 7th.
The Cache River at Patterson rose above flood stage during the morning hours on the 5th, falling back below flood stage during the early morning hours of the 22nd.
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, July 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: 596444, 596446, 596445.