Heavy rain at the end of April and early May led to flooding that continued into June.
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Heavy rain at the end of April and early May led to flooding that continued into June.
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, 7:30 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...Update National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1230 AM CDT Thu June 1 2017 .Aviation... Overall VFR conditions with some ceilings are forecast. Some patchy MVFR ceilings may be seen around sunrise Thursday, but coverage and duration will be low. Winds will be light and variable Wednesday night to Thursday morning. Winds on Thursday will become southeast at 5 to 10 mph. Thursday afternoon, isolated to areas of scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible. (59) && .Prev Discussion.../ Issued 830 PM CDT Wed May 31 2017/ .UPDATE... Convection, what there was of it, continues to slowly wane with the loss of day time heating. Update this evening will be to rework the pops slightly based on radar and forecast trends. Also bumped overnight lows up a few degrees. Otherwise current forecast looks good. && Prev Discussion...(ISSUED 246 PM CDT Wed May 31 2017 ) SHORT TERM...Tonight Through Sunday Once again today, a surface-based morning inversion has kept convection at bay for all but the higher terrain of the Ozarks and Ouachitas. Being above the morning inversion, the Ozarks were first to convect and have seen an east-west oriented line of thunderstorms develop and slowly drift south as mid level steering flow is out of the NW. Expect to see this line of convection drift south to around the I-40 corridor through the late afternoon hours before a loss of daytime heating leads to dissipation in the 6-7pm time frame. The threat of severe weather is low, but would not be surprised to see some small hail as the freezing level remains fairly low. Storm motions are fairly slow as well so brief heavy rains will be possible too. For tonight, will maintain some slight chances of thunderstorms in north central and northwest Arkansas. Small clusters of storms in eastern Kansas and southwest Missouri could possibly creep into northern parts of the state, though confidence in that is not the greatest. On Thursday, the forecast is a little uncertain. Weak disturbances in the northwest upper flow will continue to rotate through Missouri as they have the past couple of days. However the northwest flow will be receding poleward as a southern stream disturbance lifts northeastward from northern Mexico into the southern plains over the next 24-36 hours. With a stalled frontal boundary remaining in place to our north, models continue to want to develop convection along that boundary while also bringing in convection from the south with the approaching shortwave and associated warm front. Feel the northern convection is likely overdone as it has been the last few days, so have lessened rain chances in the north while maintaining higher PoPs in the south and southwest. Better chances for widespread convection will enter the forecast on Friday as that Mexico shortwave moves over the AR/OK border region and the warm front lifts into the state. LONG TERM...Sunday Through Sunday Surface boundary will meander around the region through the weekend. Southwest upper flow will send several disturbances through to interact with it, keeping a continual chance of showers and thunderstorms. While isolated strong storms are not out of the question, general cloudiness should keep a lid on widespread surface- based destabilization. Localized heavy rainfall may occur, but at this point, it looks as though coverage of storms may be scattered enough to help us avoid widespread issues. By Monday, closed upper low will dive down into the Great Lakes Region, which will in turn send the frontal boundary south, with rainfall clearing out. Remainder of the period looks to be dry, with high pressure passing through, and continued meridional or northwest flow aloft. By and large, I don't think very many people will complain about the first few days of June starting out with highs below 90 degrees (mostly). If they do...well, I'm sure it will change soon enough. After all, this is Arkansas, and it will be June. && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories...NONE. && 56
Hazardous Weather Outlook...update National Weather Service Little Rock AR 900 PM CDT Wed May 31 2017 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- 900 PM CDT Wed May 31 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight Showers and isolated thunderstorms continue to decrease with the loss of daytime heating. While a few showers may persist through the night, severe weather is not expected. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday Through Tuesday Through the rest of the week and into the weekend, chances for thunderstorms will remain in the forecast each day, especially during the afternoon to early evening hours. An isolated strong to severe storm will be possible, with hail and gusty winds the main threats. Locally heavy rainfall may also be seen. No organized and or widespread severe weather is expected at this time. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. 59
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding continued into June on the Cache River at Patterson.
Heavy rain continued into June on the White River at Augusta.
Heavy rain continued into June on the White River at Georgetown.
Heavy rain continued into June on the White River at Des Arc.
Heavy rain continued into June on the White River at Clarendon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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