Flooding continued from March into early April in northeast Arkansas.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Flooding continued from March into early April in 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 31, 11:31 PM CST, 29 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1231 AM CDT Sun Apr 1 2018 .UPDATE... Updated to include 06z aviation discussion below. && .AVIATION... Showers and isolated thunderstorms have developed over the northern terminals along a slow moving cold front located over that part of the state. This boundary will move into central Arkansas on Sunday where it will meander for a few days. As the front moves south, showers and isolated thunderstorms and a wind shift will accompany it. VFR conditions initially will deteriorate to MVFR and occasionally IFR conditions in the wake of the front. The front will not make it to KLLQ so VFR conditions will prevail there. && .PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 654 PM CDT Sat Mar 31 2018) AVIATION... VFR conditions will continue for most of the terminals this evening with MFR conditions possible across the northern terminals. A cold front will move through the majority of the state during the period with showers and isolated thunderstorms expected to develop along the boundary along with a wind shift. The front looks to stall north of KLLQ. MVFR to IFR conditions will develop in the wake of the boundary for all terminals except KLLQ with showers or VCSH. PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 247 PM CDT Sat Mar 31 2018) DISCUSSION... Main concerns in this forecast cycle are chances of convection over the weekend and into next week. Any risk of strong to severe storms early in the coming week. Colder temperatures with possible near freezing temperatures over northern AR. Finally some risk of heavy rain over several days and elevating area rivers even more than they are currently from the last heavy rain event. Saturday afternoon, the upper level short wave continues to move across the region and has developed scattered light showers over northern AR, while a few thunderstorms over MO. The convection will continue to move to the east. Some of the convection has been elevated, due to low moisture levels. Clouds have increased over northern northern AR with this shortwave. At the surface, the high pressure was well to the east of AR, and a south flow will gradually increase moisture levels through the day. Moisture levels did started out low this morning, with dew points mainly in the 40s over AR, and these continue into Saturday afternoon. Also, morning sounding precip water values were only 0.46 inches at KLZK, while at KSGF 0.57 inches. Temperatures this afternoon were in the 70s over central and southern AR, while 60s in the north. SHORT TERM...Tonight Through Monday Forecast will start with POP over northern AR this afternoon to evening, then the system moves east as the cold front sags south into AR and the rain and convection also sags south Saturday night. Sunday, the cold front sags to central AR, and develops the convection over much of the state. Winds do turn north to northeast on Sunday, and keeps weather conditions much cooler and breezy over the north and central, while a south wind holds over the south. Convection does weaken a bit on Sunday as the upper short wave pushes east, but clouds and light convection will still be possible. Highs on Sunday will only be in the 40s to lower 50s north, 50s to lower 60s central, and warmer south in the 60s to some 70s south of the cold front. Lift does decrease Sunday night, but the unsettled weather pattern holds in to the coming week, keeping some chance of convection in the forecast. Monday morning, temperatures over far northern AR may be close to freezing, and an advisory may be considered in later forecasts. Any winter weather would be spotty and no impacts expected. LONG TERM...Monday Night Through Saturday The progressive upper lvl flow will keep an active wx pattern in place acrs the Mid-South through much of the PD. Main forecast concerns wl cont to be temp trends, along with the timing and extent of rain chances with each storm sys. A frontal bndry wl be in the process of lifting Nwd acrs AR Mon night. Plan to keep some small PoPs in the fcst, mainly for locations along and N of the bndry. Most locations wl actually see their low temps reached early in the night, with readings actually gradually rising overnight as south winds incrs. Meanwhile, new storm system/CDFNT wl be quickly apchg AR fm the W early Tue. Model solutions today have actually been trending faster with the Ewd progression of the storm system. The assocd CDFNT looks to move thru most of AR by late Tue evening, about 6 hours faster than previously shown. Showers/storms wl bcm likely along and ahead of the FROPA, esp over the SE half of the FA. With the front expected to push thru quicker, the potential for any organized strong/svr storms still looks to be limited to a narrow window Mon aftn/early evening acrs mainly the SE half of the FA. Convective parameters show MUCAPE values apchg 1500 J/KG ahead of the fnt, along with some CIN in place ovr Cntrl/Ern AR. Fcst soundings show SRH values of 200-225 m*2/s*2. Canadian high pres wl bring colder/drier airmass into AR for midweek. Parts of N AR still look to see temps drop close to the freezing mark Wed and Thu mrng. Airmass wl begin to moderate starting late Thu as the high shifts Ewd and Sly flow returns. Yet another storm system wl bring rain chances back to the area Fri and Fri night. Some timing differences noted with the timing of this feature so kept PoPs in chance category. A reinforcing shot of cooler air wl again heading into next weekend. && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories...NONE. && Aviation...67
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 545 PM CDT Sat Mar 31 2018 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- 545 PM CDT Sat Mar 31 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Isolated to scattered showers will increase through this evening into tonight. A few thunderstorms are possible, although the threat for strong storms is very low. Breezy south to southwest winds at 10 to 20 mph will continue through early evening before subsiding tonight. Caution is advised on area lakes and rivers through the remainder of this evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday Through Friday Chances for showers and thunderstorms will be in place Sunday into the middle of next week. The threat for widespread heavy rainfall remains low. A few strong storms may be possible Tuesday, but some question remains regarding the threat for widespread strong to severe storms at this time. Attention will then turn to overnight low temperatures, which will need to be monitored closely Wednesday and Thursday of next week across northern Arkansas. Temperatures are expected to fall near the freezing mark which could harm sensitive vegetation. Another cold front is expected to move through the state by late next week which could bring another chance for showers and thunderstorms to the state. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation is not anticipated. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding continued from March on the Cache River at Patterson.
Flooding continued from March on the White River at Augusta.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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