Heavy rain in August brought flooding to rivers in northeast Arkansas which continued into September.
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Heavy rain in August brought flooding to rivers in northeast Arkansas which continued into September.
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, 11:00 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1200 AM CDT THU SEP 1 2016 .AVIATION... Expect some isolated SHRA or TSRA to remain possible overnight into Thu...activity that may develop along and ahead of an approaching cold front dropping south across MO. This front will drop south through AR by late Thu afternoon into early Fri morning...with some precip chances persisting. Some patchy fog could also be seen around sunrise...along with MVFR or lower conditions possible with the precip. The drier air will filter in behind this front late in this TAF period...with chances for precip decreasing Thu night. && .PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 604 PM CDT WED AUG 31 2016) DISCUSSION... Updated to include the 00Z aviation discussion below... AVIATION... Some isolated to scattered SHRA/TSRA have developed across portions of central and NRN AR late this afternoon in response to a cold front starting to drop south into the state. Expect coverage of this activity to decrease some after sunset...though chances for precip will remain in the forecast through much of Thu. Some patchy fog could also be seen around sunrise...along with MVFR or lower conditions possible with the precip. The drier air will filter in behind this front late in this TAF period...with chances for precip decreasing. PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 235 PM CDT WED AUG 31 2016) SHORT TERM...Tonight Through Friday Well, it's not much, but it's a start. Cold front currently over far northwest-northern Arkansas will continue to sink into the region over the next 24 hours. Scattered showers/storms will be possible behind the boundary, as an upper level system moves through and interacts with it. Greatest coverage will be in the northwest and west. Rain chances will decrease Thursday night, as the front moves south of Arkansas and gets absorbed in the circulation of Tropical Storm Hermine. Surge of cooler air will really be felt on Thursday and Friday, as highs will mostly be in the 80s on Thursday and lows could fall into the 50s in the northwest and 60s elsewhere Thursday Night. Friday highs will only be in the 70s to mid 80s as autumn decides to briefly taunt us before things warm up by late in the weekend. LONG TERM...Friday Night Through Tuesday Friday night will be relatively cool...with lows dipping into the low to mid 50s up north and the low 60s elsewhere as high pressure builds into the region in the wake of a cold front that moved through on Thursday. If you believe some guidance...places near Harrison may even drop into the 40s Friday night...but that is by far the cold outlier so did not go that low in the forecast. Below normal temperatures will continue on Saturday before a warmup occurs on Sunday and into the first half of next week. But by late Sunday return flow will begin to set back up across the region as high pressure builds overhead/east of Arkansas Sunday evening into next week. Temperatures will respond accordingly...with highs going from the low to mid 50s on Saturday...back to the upper 80s to low 90s Sunday onward. Rain chances will remain low overall...with some slight chances for showers and thunderstorms returning to the forecast each afternoon from Monday onward as moisture levels rebound. FIRE WEATHER... No significant fire weather issues are expected through the period. Minimum humidities in most areas are likely to remain above 50 percent. && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories...NONE. && Aviation...56
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 830 PM CDT WED AUG 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- 830 PM CDT WED AUG 31 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEEN OVERNIGHT...WITH SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE OVERALL THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL REMAIN LOW THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH THROUGH THE STATE BY LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AND WILL BRING CONTINUED CHANCES FOR SCATTERED PRECIPITATION. THE CONCERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MINIMAL. ANY SEVERE STORMS SHOULD BE SPOTTY. THE FRONT WILL EXIT TO THE SOUTH THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH COOLER AND DRIER AIR TO FOLLOW ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
706 PM CDT WED AUG 31 2016
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0610 PM TSTM WND DMG PERRY 35.05N 92.79W
08/31/2016 PERRY AR TRAINED SPOTTER
A FEW TREES REPORTED DOWN IN AND AROUND PERRY.
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EVENT NUMBER LZK1600097
JHOODThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding continued on the Cache River at Patterson from August.
Flooding continued on the White River at Augusta from heavy rain in August.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, September 2016
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: 660127, 660128.