Additional heavy rainfall caused some rivers to rise back above flood stage during the month of June.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Additional heavy rainfall caused some rivers to rise back above flood stage during the month of June.
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 Jun 20, 5:35 PM CST, 8 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 635 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 2015 .AVIATION... OVERALL VFR FLIGHT CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SOME INCREASING MID AND HIGH CLOUDS WILL BE SEEN WITH CEILINGS. LATE OVERNIGHT TO SUNDAY MORNING...PATCHY MVFR CEILINGS WITH SOME FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE BUT DUE TO UNCERTAINTY DID NOT INCLUDE IN TAFS EXCEPT KADF. WINDS WILL BE W TO SW AT 5 TO 10 MPH. ON SUNDAY ISOLATED CONVECTION MAY DEVELOP OVER WESTERN AR. (59) && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 250 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 2015/ .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT SUMMERLIKE CONDS PREVAIL ACRS AR THIS AFTN...WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND VERY WARM TEMPS NOTED. MID AFTN READINGS RANGED FM THE MID 80S TO THE LOWER 90S. ISOLD SHRA/TSRA WAS WAS NOTED THIS AFTN...BUT EXPECT THE ACTIVITY TO QUICKLY DIMINISH AFT SUNSET THIS EVENING. STAGNANT WX PATTERN WL BE IN STORE FOR THE NATURAL STATE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND INTO THE NEW WORK WEEK. HIGH PRES ALOFT WL CONT TO BLD EWD INTO THE REGION IN THE COMING DAYS. ISOLD AFTN/EARLY EVENING CONVECTION WL RMN POSSIBLE. HIGHS IN THE LOWER AND MID 90S WL BE COMMON...WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE MID 60S TO MID 70S. AFTN HEAT INDICES WL TOP OUT ARND THE CENTURY MARK IN MANY LOCATIONS EARLY IN THE WEEK. && .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE OVER THE SOUTHERN U.S. TO BEGIN THE LONG TERM PERIOD WITH ZONAL FLOW OVER THE NORTHERN U.S. AN UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER THE SOUTHWEST U.S. THURSDAY AND PROVIDE A MORE NORTHWEST FLOW OVER THE NORTH...AND THEN THE PLAINS AND SOUTHEAST BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THIS WILL KEEP CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE PERIOD...THOUGH MAINLY SMALL CHANCES. MODELS INDICATE AT THIS TIME THAT AN MCS MAY MOVE THROUGH NORTH ARKANSAS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL BE MAINLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...44 / LONG TERM...51
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211000- 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 SAT JUN 20 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...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY RAIN WILL MOSTLY SHUT OFF IN THE COMING DAYS. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED INTO NEXT WEEK...AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES COULD REACH 100 TO 105 DEGREES IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN...CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS. BY THURSDAY OR FRIDAY...IT APPEARS A COLD FRONT MAY MAKE IT INTO NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE FROM MISSOURI. THIS WOULD RESULT IN ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...AND SLIGHTLY COOLER CONDITIONS. .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. 46
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Fourche La Fave River at Houston rose above flood stage during the early morning hours of the 21st, falling back below flood stage during the evening hours of the 22nd.
The White River at Augusta rose above flood stage during the afternoon hours of the 21st, falling back below flood stage during the afternoon hours of the 24th.
The Cache River at Patterson rose above flood stage during the morning hours of the 24th, falling back below flood stage during the morning hours of the 27th.
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, June 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: 588727, 588729, 588728.