River flooding continued on the Cache River from August.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
River flooding continued on the Cache River from August.
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 Aug 31, 4:46 PM CST, 7 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 546 PM CDT MON AUG 31 2015 .AVIATION... THERE WILL BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF MVFR FOG OR HAZE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE TONIGHT...BECOMING SOUTH AROUND 6 KNOTS OR LESS AFTER SUNRISE. LEFTOVER MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES WILL BE THE FOCUSING MECHANISM TO TRIGGER ANY CONVECTION DURING THE DAY TUESDAY... HOWEVER THE LIKELIHOOD OF ANY REACHING A TERMINAL SITE IS LOW... THUS WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY TSRA/VCTS/VCSH/RA IN THE FORECAST AT THIS TIME. NOTE TO USERS OF THE HRO TAF...COMMUNICATIONS ISSUES CONTINUE AT THE SITE. UNTIL THESE ARE RESOLVED...THERE WILL BE NO SCHEDULED AMENDMENTS TO THE FORECAST. TAFS OUT AT 2320Z. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 255 PM CDT MON AUG 31 2015/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT AN UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS INDICATE THIS BECOMES A CUTOFF LOW NEAR THE GULF COAST WEDNESDAY...WITH AN UPPER HIGH OVER THE FLORIDA COAST. THE INVERTED TROUGH BUILDS OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. THURSDAY. MOISTURE IS VERY LIMITED WITH THIS LOW THROUGH THE PERIOD. AFTER BEING DRY TONIGHT AND TUESDAY...A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN FOR WEDNESDAY AS A SHORTWAVE ROTATES AROUND THE LOW...WITH ADDITIONAL MOISTURE. WILL ALSO KEEP THE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THURSDAY. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE SHORT TERM PERIOD IN THE 90S. LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS SET TO STRENGTHEN ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE EXTENDED TERM...BRINGING A RETURN TO PREDOMINANTLY DRY WEATHER AND ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. RAIN CHANCES NOT LOOKING TOO LIKELY UNTIL PERHAPS MONDAY AT THE EARLIEST...WHERE I HAVE PUT IN SOME SLIGHT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...57
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT MON AUG 31 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011000- 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- 500 AM CDT MON AUG 31 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WHILE IT WILL BE MOSTLY DRY TODAY...A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY DRY WEATHER IS IN THE FORECAST MUCH OF THIS WEEK...WITH DROUGHT CONDITIONS SLOWLY WORSENING IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ISOLATED. .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.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Cache River at Patterson continued flooding from August, falling below flood stage during the late morning hours on the 1st.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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