Many rivers were running high during the month of February due to heavy rain.
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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 LZK wrote it up.
Many rivers were running high during the month of February due to heavy rain.
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 Jan 31, 11:58 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1158 PM CST Thu Jan 31 2019 .DISCUSSION... Updated to include the 06Z aviation discussion below... && .AVIATION... Areas of low clouds/MVFR conditions will be common across much of Arkansas tonight into Friday morning. Along with the clouds, isolated to scattered light showers will be noted. Chances of rain will decrease Friday afternoon, and this will allow low clouds to break up in some areas. VFR conditions will return in places heading into Friday evening. Winds will be light east/southeast through the period. && .PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 254 PM CST Thu Jan 31 2019) SHORT TERM...Tonight Through Saturday Northwest flow aloft continues over Arkansas through the short term period. An upper ridge will remain over the western U.S. and a strong upper low over the Great Lakes area will move to the northeast Friday and Saturday. A warm front is moving north through the state today with much warmer temperatures south of the front. Clouds continue to increase over the state and moisture will increase tonight. Expect to see light rain or drizzle tonight and Friday as moisture will be limited. Patchy fog should develop tonight as well. Light rain or drizzle chances will continue Friday night. With increasing moisture Saturday, expect rain chances to increase through the day. The warm up will continue Friday and Saturday. Highs by Saturday will be in the 60s. LONG TERM...Saturday Night Through Thursday The primary theme of the long term, at least through the majority of the period, will be unseasonably warm temperatures and an unsettled pattern. By late Saturday, a compact shortwave trough embedded in quasi-zonal flow aloft will rapidly kick east as surface ridging slowly migrates east as well. Marginal deep moisture should limit the potential for measurable precip, although widely scattered showers will be possible in far western AR through the weekend. As surface ridging slides farther east late weekend into early next week, southerly return flow will become well-established with sustained poleward moisture flux pumping rich Gulf moisture into the state. Temps will veritably soar by Monday afternoon with highs pushing 70 plus degrees nearly area wide. Lows will generally remain in the 40s and 50s to near 60 degrees in far southeastern AR. Another more potent shortwave trough will eject across the central and northern Plains through the day Monday, driving a frontal boundary toward the area. Model guidance still shows significant disagreement placing this feature given the upper trough will quickly lose its influence, although broad southwesterly flow aloft and the presence of a quasi-stationary frontal boundary across or at least near the area suggests rain and isolated to scattered thunder will be possible. While deep shear will be sufficient for some organized convection, marginal thermodynamic profiles suggest very low severe potential attm. Yet another upper trough will approach and eventually cross the Rockies very late in the period. The evolution of this bit of southern stream energy will depend on influence from a substantial northern stream upper trough, progged to slide out of Canada and into the northern Plains around mid-week next week. Still thinking the southern stream trough will have enough sway to push the front through, so did increase PoP late Tuesday through the end of the period in anticipation of an uptick in forcing. If the front moves through fast enough with enough CAA in its wake, some snow may be possible to end the period. && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories...NONE. && Aviation...46
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1122 PM CST Thu Jan 31 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- 1122 PM CST Thu Jan 31 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday Through Wednesday No organized or widespread 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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding continued from January on the Cache River at Patterson.
Flooding continued from heavy rain in January on the White River at Augusta. This flooding continued through the entire month.
Flooding continued from January on the White River at Georgetown through February 1.
Flooding continued from January on the White River at Clarendon through the entire month.
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, February 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: 809156, 809399, 809400, 809401.