Heavy rainfall caused the White River at Augusta to rise above flood stage during the morning hours on the 7th, remaining above flood stage through the end of the month and into April.
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Heavy rainfall caused the White River at Augusta to rise above flood stage during the morning hours on the 7th, remaining above flood stage through the end of the month 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 Mar 6, 11:38 PM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1138 PM CST FRI MAR 6 2015 .AVIATION... GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES WILL BE SEEN DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. LIGHT WINDS SHOULD BE SEEN DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AT ALL BUT KHRO AND KBPK. SOME HIGH CLOUDS WILL STREAM INTO THE REGION ON SATURDAY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME FOG ENTERING THE FORECAST TOWARDS THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 300 PM CST FRI MAR 6 2015/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT ARCTIC HIGH PRES WAS CENTERED OVR SERN AR THIS AFTN. THIS ALLOWED FOR S/SWLY WINDS TO RETURN TO MOST OF THE FA. UNDER SUNNY SKIES... TEMPS REBOUNDED INTO THE 40S AT MOST LOCATIONS. THE EXCEPTION IS WHERE SNOW AND ICE COVER LINGER...HOLDING THE MERCURY IN THE UPR 20S TO UPR 30S. NEAR TERM FCST CONCERN WL BE LOW TEMPS TNGT...ESP IN AREAS WHERE SNOW/ICE COVER LINGER. PLAN TO CONT UNDERCUT GUIDANCE TEMPS IN THESE AREAS AND LESS SO ON SAT AS MELTING CONTS. THE AFOREMENTIONED HIGH PRES SYS WL CONT TO SHIFT SLOLY EWD THRU SAT...WITH TEMPS CONTG TO MODERATE. MEANWHILE...A NEW STORM SYS WL APCH THE REGION FM THE SWRN STATES. CLOUDS AND MOISTURE WL INCRS SAT NGT AND SUN. RAIN CHCS WL RETURN TO THE STATE AS SUN PROGRESSES... ESP ACRS CNTRL AND SRN SECTIONS. TEMPS LOOK TO STAY WARM ENOUGH FOR ALL LIQUID OVR THE AREA. DUE TO THE SLOW EWD PROGRESSION OF THE PRIMARY STORM SYS...RAIN CHCS WL LINGER THRU THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM. LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A LARGE UPPER TROUGH HOUSING A CLOSED LOW OVER THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST NEXT WEEK AND INTERACT WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH AS IT GRADUALLY RETROGRESSES BACK TO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE VALLEYS. AS ALWAYS THIS FAR OUT THERE IS SOME DISCREPANCIES IN THE EXACT LONGITUDE OF FRONTAL PLACEMENT AS IT MOVES THROUGH...BUT FELT IT WAS NECESSARY TO LET POPS RIDE THROUGH THE PERIOD. NOTE THAT MANY AREAS WILL HAVE SATURATED SOILS AND INCREASED STREAMFLOW ON THE RIVERS ON ACCOUNT OF SNOWMELT EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND...THEREFORE ANY HEAVY RAIN COULD POTENTIALLY LEAD FLASH FLOODING AND/OR PERSISTENT RIVER FLOODING. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...65
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CST FRI MAR 6 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-071100- 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 CST FRI MAR 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MANY ROADS WILL REMAIN HAZARDOUS THIS MORNING...AS ANY MELTING THAT OCCURRED THURSDAY REFROZE OVERNIGHT. TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL WARM ABOVE FREEZING...BUT ALL AREAS WILL FALL BACK BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT. EXTRA CAUTION SHOULD BE USED BY MOTORISTS DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF BLACK ICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 58
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall caused the White River at Augusta to rise above flood stage during the morning hours on the 7th, remaining above flood stage through the end of the month and into April.
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