Heavy rains produced flooding on the Cache and White rivers.
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Heavy rains produced flooding on the Cache and White rivers.
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 May 31, 11:48 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1248 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 .AVIATION... Isolated -TSRA or VCTS will possible during the early morning hours on Wednesday. Winds will be generally light and variable to calm...with fog and lowering cigs/visbys expected with mainly VRF to MVRF conditions. A cold front is stalled across southern MO...however it will make some progress south into AR on Wednesday...affecting mainly northern TAF sites. Given the uncertainty in the exact timing...have kept precip contained to tempo groups or VCTS as storms will be widely scattered in nature. && .PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 805 PM CDT TUE May 31 2016 ) Discussion... Evening convection slowly winding down, especially over southwest AR. Other very isolated convection over the rest of AR also dissipating. Convection over northeast OK and southwest MO has developed as upper shortwave energy moves through the region. This activity may drift southeast and affect northern AR. Although, short range models do weaken and dissipate it before it reaches the area. Due to some uncertainty in model runs, will only keep slight to low chance of convection overnight. Will add patchy fog to forecast due to continues low level moisture. Lows tonight will be from the 60s to lower 70s. Late evening update will fine tune convection chances and temperatures. (59) && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories...NONE. && Aviation...224
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 337 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016 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- 337 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT EXPECT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COULD BE SEEN. EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL COULD ALSO BE SEEN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE REGION AND STALLS...AND AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA DEVELOPS AND STALLS TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE REGION. DURING THIS PERIOD...THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LOW. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS A POSSIBILITY...WITH HAIL AND WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. THIS WOULD BE MOST LIKELY ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY WITH ANY STRONGER STORMS...HOWEVER ANY FLOODING ISSUES WOULD BE LOCALIZED IN NATURE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 62/57
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1145 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016
ARZ046-047-010515-
PRAIRIE AR-MONROE AR-
1145 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL MONROE AND
SOUTHEASTERN PRAIRIE COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 AM CDT...
AT 1144 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER STUTTGART MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF STUTTGART...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLARENDON... DE VALLS BLUFF... FREDONIA...
ULM... ROE... STUTTGART MUNICIPAL ...
DOBBS LANDING... PEPPERS LANDING... ABERDEEN...
SLOVAK... TOLLVILLE...
LAT...LON 3467 9119 3456 9142 3457 9160 3460 9164
3488 9145
TIME...MOT...LOC 0444Z 223DEG 19KT 3461 9155
224SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1259 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 ARZ032-044-010645- PULASKI AR-FAULKNER AR- 1259 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL PULASKI AND SOUTH CENTRAL FAULKNER COUNTIES UNTIL 145 AM CDT... AT 1257 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MAUMELLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORTH LITTLE ROCK... SHERWOOD... JACKSONVILLE... WEST LITTLE ROCK... MAUMELLE... LITTLE ROCK AFB... MAYFLOWER... ARGENTA... OAK GROVE... LAKEWOOD... MCALMONT... GEYER SPRINGS... CHENAL VALLEY... ROLAND... MORGAN... LAT...LON 3467 9245 3492 9254 3506 9224 3476 9209 TIME...MOT...LOC 0557Z 246DEG 8KT 3483 9241 46
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain caused flooding on the Cache River at Patterson.
Heavy rains caused flooding on the White River at Augusta.
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