Heavy rain in November created flooding that continued into December 2019.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Heavy rain in November created flooding that continued into December 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 Nov 30, 11:31 PM CST, 29 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1131 PM CST Sat Nov 30 2019 .DISCUSSION... Updated to include the 06Z aviation discussion below... && .AVIATION... Some breezy NW winds will be seen through much of this TAF period...but these winds should decrease by the end of this TAF period. Otherwise...expect VFR conditions to persist. && .PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 304 PM CST Sat Nov 30 2019) SHORT TERM...Tonight Through Monday Precip rapidly making its way toward the southeastern CWA border this afternoon with clearing skies and significantly drier air moving in from the west. Td values across the northwest have already fallen into the lower 30s as of 20z. H500 cyclone will continue to make eastward progress just north of the area with a surface low and trailing cold front moving eastward as well. With the pressure gradient increasing, west to northwest winds will rapidly increase across the area. Issued a wind advisory across northern and northeastern sections of the state for tonight through much of the day Sunday as these areas will be closest to the surface low. Wind gusts could approach 40 mph at times. Colder temperatures will persist through the short term portion of the forecast with lows in the 30s and 40s tonight and lows at or below freezing Monday morning. Mostly clear sky conditions will be seen for the period but as the H500 low rotates east of the region, some wrap around moisture will provide cloud cover across northern counties Sunday. LONG TERM...Monday Night Through Saturday Monday Night through Wednesday Night... A shortwave upper level ridge will move over Arkansas Monday night keeping conditions dry across the state and allowing light winds to back around to the south by Tuesday morning. A strong shortwave trough will dig southeast out of the northern plains over northern Arkansas on Tuesday, but all models agree that we will remain very dry in the lower atmosphere, so no rain or thunderstorms are expected as this feature passes by. This trough will drag another weak frontal boundary southeast across Arkansas on Wednesday...but temperatures are not expected to change much...this frontal boundary will simply reinforce low-level dry air keeping things dry and relatively cool across Arkansas through Wednesday night. Thursday and Thursday night... Another strong shortwave trough will move east over the southern CONUS Rockies and towards Arkansas during the day on Thursday. This will result in rapid low-level cyclogenesis which will drag low- level moisture back over Arkansas Thursday afternoon and evening. The surface low is expected to travel along the Red River and generally remain south of Arkansas, therefore showers and thunderstorms will remain elevated over the state and should not pose any significant severe weather threat. At worst, some elevated storms capable of producing hail could develop over the state Thursday afternoon or evening, however the most likely scenario is that we will have widespread rain showers with embedded thunderstorms as the trough moves over the state. Rainfall amounts of one half to one inch are expected across the state. Rainfall should end abruptly behind the trough late Thursday night into early Friday morning as strong forcing for subsidence and dry air advection builds across the state. Friday and Saturday... Low-level high pressure will remain in place over Arkansas during this period keeping dry weather in the forecast. Winds will come around to the south bringing warmer and more humid air back into the state by Saturday night into Sunday morning. Temperatures on Friday and Saturday will remain in the mid to upper 50s, and clouds and rain chances may return to the forecast by Sunday as the next upper level storm system approaches. && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories... Wind Advisory until 6 PM CST Sunday FOR Baxter-Boone-Cleburne- Fulton-Independence-Izard-Jackson-Lawrence-Marion-Newton- Randolph-Searcy-Sharp-Stone-Van Buren-White-Woodruff. && Aviation...62
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1126 PM CST Sat Nov 30 2019 ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011100- 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- 1126 PM CST Sat Nov 30 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Overnight Expect breezy winds from the west and northwest through the overnight period. Winds tonight will increase to 10 to 20 mph...with gusts of 25 to over 35 mph possible. The strongest winds will be in the higher terrain of the northern and northwest sections of the area...where gusts may approach 40 mph. Otherwise...the threat for hazardous weather is expected to remain low at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday Through Friday Some breezy west and northwest winds will be seen on Sunday...with winds of 15 to 25 mph possible....especially in the higher terrain of the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountain regions. Gusts of 30 to over 40 mph may be possible. Expect these winds to weaken late Sunday afternoon into Sunday night. Otherwise...No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation will not be needed. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. 62
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain brought flooding to the Cache River at Patterson in early December.
Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Augusta in early December.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, December 2019
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: 867090, 867092.