Dry conditions combined with gusty winds to create a couple of large wildfires across Northeast Arkansas.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.
Dry conditions combined with gusty winds to create a couple of large wildfires across Northeast Arkansas.
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 27, 12:04 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Memphis TN 1204 PM CST Mon Nov 27 2017 .DISCUSSION... Updated for aviation discussion && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 958 AM CST Mon Nov 27 2017/ UPDATE... High pressure centered over the Tennessee Valley will move east today with low level southerly winds allowing temperatures to warm to several degrees above average. High temperatures in the middle to upper 60s will be common today. Rising mid level heights will also keep fair weather in place with sunny skies expected. The current forecast looks good and no updates are planned. JLH PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 405 AM CST Mon Nov 27 2017/ Dry and mild conditions will continue over the Midsouth today and Tuesday. A fast moving upper level shortwave will bring with it a scattered showers from Wednesday afternoon and evening. Latest guidance has come in lower with rain amounts and coverage, as the system deamplifies on its journey across the southern plains Wednesday. A northern branch shortwave will follow quickly behind the weakening southern branch shortwave, brining scattered showers to the Midsouth late Wednesday night into early Thursday. All models depicted modest rain amounts, less than 1/10 inch, by Thursday afternoon. As such, we may end up with one of the driest Novembers in recent memory over the Midsouth. As of today and prior to any midweek rain, a couple of Midsouth climate sites ranked in the top 10 driest Novembers... Jonesboro... 6th driest since 1893 Tupelo... 5th driest since 1930 Low amplitude northwest flow will prevail late week, into next weekend. 00Z medium range models begin to diverge with respect to a deepening longwave trof forming over the Great Basin early next week. As has been the case with similar systems this month, the GFS was the most progressive in lifting the longwave trof across the CONUS, resulting in frontal-focused rain over Midsouth by Tuesday of next week. ECMWF and Canadian models were 1 to 2 days slower. Timing differences aside, an amplified pattern shift does appear to be underway, with the persistent upper ridge over northern Mexico lifting east into the into the eastern Gulf of Mexico and a longwave trof western U.S. This would point toward a wetter and more unsettled pattern for the Midsouth during the early/mid December period. PWB && .AVIATION... VFR. South winds will prevail this afternoon...lighter in the east and a little stronger across the Delta. Speeds will diminish after 00Z and increase again Tuesday morning. SJM && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. MO...None. MS...None. TN...None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Memphis TN 307 AM CST Mon Nov 27 2017 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-281115- Alcorn-Benton MS-Benton TN-Calhoun-Carroll-Chester-Chickasaw-Clay- Coahoma-Craighead-Crittenden-Crockett-Cross-DeSoto-Decatur- Dunklin-Dyer-Fayette-Gibson-Greene-Hardeman-Hardin-Haywood- Henderson-Henry-Itawamba-Lafayette-Lake-Lauderdale-Lawrence- Lee AR-Lee MS-Madison-Marshall-McNairy-Mississippi-Monroe-Obion- Panola-Pemiscot-Phillips-Poinsett-Pontotoc-Prentiss-Quitman- Randolph-Shelby-St. Francis-Tallahatchie-Tate-Tippah-Tipton- Tishomingo-Tunica-Union-Weakley-Yalobusha- 307 AM CST Mon Nov 27 2017 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of East Arkansas... the Missouri Bootheel...North Mississippi...and West Tennessee. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time. PWB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire occurred off County Road 511 in Portia. Approximately 300 acres were burned. One seasonal hunting house was destroyed.
A wildfire occurred east of Paragould around East Fifth Avenue. Two homes were burned and 50-75 people were evacuated. A few people suffered minor burns.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 728803, 728805.