Heavy rainfall and melting heavy wintry precipitation caused the Cache River at Patterson to rise above flood stage back in February, remaining above flood stage through all of March and into April.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Heavy rainfall and melting heavy wintry precipitation caused the Cache River at Patterson to rise above flood stage back in February, remaining above flood stage through all of March and into April.
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 Feb 28, 11:16 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1116 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015 .AVIATION... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE TO PASS THROUGH THE REGION BRINGING FREEZING RAIN TO THE NORTHERN TERMINALS AND RAIN TO THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TAF SITES. THE PRECIPITATION WILL END BY LATE MORNING TO EARLY AFTERNOON BUT LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WILL PERSIST ONCE PRECIPITATION STARTS AND REMAIN THROUGH THE PERIOD. WIDESPREAD IFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH VFR CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE BECOMING IFR WITH TIME. LIGHT EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 808 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015/ UPDATE... OVERALL THE FORECAST IS IN DECENT SHAPE...BUT TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN A LITTLE STUBBORN TO RISE IN PLACES SO FELT IT PRUDENT TO GO AHEAD AND EXTEND THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH WITH THE EVENING UPDATE. RUSSELLVILLE...CLINTON...AND EVEN BATESVILLE HAVE BEEN SLOW TO RISE THIS EVENING AND ARE STILL SITTING AT OR BELOW THE FREEZING MARK AS OF 7 PM. SURFACE OBSERVATIONS AS WELL AS REPORTS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA CONFIRM THAT SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IS OCCURRING IN THOSE AREAS...AND HAVE EVEN SEEN SOME REPORTS THAT I-40 WAS SLIPPERY IN SPOTS OUT IN JOHNSON COUNTY. FURTHERMORE...GIVEN THE OBS AT THE BOONEVILLE RAWS AND STATIONS TO THE SOUTH AT MENA AND MT IDA...FEEL PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT LOWER ELEVATIONS IN YELL...LOGAN...AND SCOTT COUNTIES ARE ALSO STILL EXPERIENCING SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN. FOR THESE REASONS...WENT AHEAD AND EXTENDED THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SOUTHWARD A BIT TO PICK UP THESE LOCATIONS AND SET THE EXPIRATION TIME AT 12Z TO COINCIDE WITH THE PREVIOUS ADVISORY AREA. ADDITIONAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A FEW HUNDREDTHS COULD OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHWEST. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM CST SUNDAY FOR BAXTER-BOONE- CLEBURNE-CONWAY-FAULKNER-FULTON-INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON- JOHNSON-LOGAN-LONOKE-MARION-MONROE-NEWTON-PERRY-POPE-PRAIRIE- PULASKI-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-WOODRUFF-YELL. && AVIATION...56/57
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 800 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-012245- 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- 800 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT LIGHT PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS FOR A GOOD PORTION OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS. A MIX OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY WITH THE PRECIPITATION GRADUALLY CHANGING TO MAINLY FREEZING RAIN. AT THE SURFACE...TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW FREEZING THROUGH THE NIGHT SO ANY ADDITIONAL WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL ONLY ACT TO MAKE ROAD CONDITIONS WORSE. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT ROUGHLY NORTH OF A WALDRON TO RUSSELLVILLE TO NEWPORT LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 6 AM SUNDAY FOR PARTS OF THE STATE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE...HOWEVER ANY ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS ON ROADWAYS. UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND AND CONTINUE INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. A SIGNIFICANT WARM UP AROUND THE STATE ON TUESDAY WILL LEAD TO A RETURN OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE FORECAST. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST UNTIL A STRONG COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE STATE ON WEDNESDAY. BEHIND THIS FRONT COLD AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE STATE...AND BRING A RETURN OF OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION TO THE FORECAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 56/64
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall and melting heavy wintry precipitation caused the Cache River at Patterson to rise above flood stage back in February, remaining above flood stage through all of March and into April.
Heavy rainfall caused the Ouachita River at Camden to rise above flood stage during the evening hours on the 5th, dropping below flood stage until the afternoon hours on the 30th.
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, March 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: 571318, 571332.