Heavy rain brought more flooding to Arkansas in late April 2019.
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Heavy rain brought more flooding to Arkansas in late April 2019.
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 Apr 25, 5:31 AM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 631 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 .UPDATE... Updated to include the 12Z aviation discussion. && .AVIATION... Highest chance of persistent IFR or worse cigs remains north early in the period where -RA will remain through afternoon. MVFR or better conditions noted elsewhere, although KADF continues showing LIFR cigs. Dry slotting today should eradicate low cigs central and south with a return to VFR after 25/16-17Z, but some redevelopment of SHRA possible through 26/00Z. Skies gradually clear S to N after 26/00Z. Cooper && .PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 401 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019) SHORT TERM...Today Through Friday Night Mosaic radar showing widespread rain across much of the area early this morning with the heaviest activity across portions of eastern and southeastern AR. Embedded thunder is also noted, although the most intense convection remains to our south and east. A weak and rather ill-defined front remains draped across the state and a surface low across southwestern AR will continue lifting northeast along the boundary in response to an approaching upper low. Rain with isolated thunder will remain possible invof this feature, although dry slotting to the southwest of the surface low may limit rain coverage across roughly the southern half of AR. Fog, some of which could be dense, will also be possible through at least mid- morning... most notably across northern AR. As a compact upper trough emanating from the northern stream zips through the Plains later today, expecting the upper low in our area to finally open and eject east with rainfall ending west-to- east by this evening. A more pronounced change of air mass will occur overnight as dry front sweeps in from the northwest. While daily high temperatures will exhibit a warming trend through the remainder of the period, lows will fall into the 40s and 50s F each night as dewpoint temps drop into the upper 30s to near 50 F. High pressure and fair weather will round out the period, although another weak system will approach for the beginning of the long term period. Cooper LONG TERM...Saturday Through Wednesday The period will begin with some ridging over the eastern Pacific Ocean and a west/northwest wind flow aloft this weekend. This will allow a weak cold front to sag into Arkansas from the north, with isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. Over time, troughing will take over across the western United States. This will cause riding over the southeast states, and the aforementioned front will lift back to the north. If there is any thunder early next week, it will be over the Ozark Mountains of the northwest. Given ridging, above average temperatures are in the forecast. By the middle of the week, troughing will work toward the middle of the country. This will result in better chances of showers and thunderstorms across a larger chunk of the region. The best chances of precipitation will be over the northwest half of the state. As far as amounts of precipitation, one to more than two inches of rain will be possible across the north and west, with less than an inch over much of the southeast. At this point, if there is severe weather, it would be concentrated mainly to the north and west of Arkansas and not so much locally. 46 && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories...NONE. && Aviation...COOPER
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Little Rock AR 412 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-261000- Boone-Marion-Baxter-Fulton-Sharp-Randolph-Newton-Searcy-Stone- Izard-Independence-Lawrence-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- 412 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Some heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms will remain possible through today, although coverage will diminish by afternoon. As a dry front sweeps in tonight, winds will become gusty out of the north and caution should be used on area waterways. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday Through Wednesday Rain and storms will return to the forecast by this weekend with unsettled weather continuing into next week. In addition to heavy rain, isolated stronger storms will be possible across portions of northwestern Arkansas Tuesday into Wednesday. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation will not be needed. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. Cooper/46
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain caused flooding on the Petit Jean River at Danville April 25 and 26, 2019.
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