Flooding continued from February into the first part of March 2019.
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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.
Flooding continued from February into the first part of March 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 Feb 28, 5:43 PM CST, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Little Rock AR 543 PM CST Thu Feb 28 2019 .UPDATE... Updated to include the 00Z aviation discussion. && .AVIATION... Low clouds are tracking through the state tonight and patchy fog will develop. Ceilings and visibilities will be at IFR and MVFR levels. Clouds will lift and fog will begin dissipating tomorrow morning and clouds will scatter out by tomorrow afternoon. && .PREV DISCUSSION...(ISSUED 246 PM CST Thu Feb 28 2019) SHORT TERM...Tonight Through Saturday Zonal flow will continue through the period with only a couple of disruptions in the flow through the nations mid section. The cold front that passed through the state is into Mississippi and Louisiana and should make it to the Gulf of Mexico tonight and stall. North and northwest low level winds have set up over Arkansas. Cold air advection and cloud cover kept the temperatures struggling to warm today. Patchy fog remains in some areas this afternoon and where it has dissipated, it will reform tonight. With a strong inversion over the area, low clouds will continue through the night. Surface high pressure will be over Arkansas tonight. However, another cold front in the Plains will drop southeast Friday and Friday night reaching northwest Arkansas by late Friday night. As the front in the Gulf inches back to the north, moisture will return and rain chances will return to south Arkansas Friday. Rain chances will spread northward and better chances are expected for Saturday. Lows tonight will be in the mid 20s north to upper 30s south, and highs Friday will be in the upper 40s to mid 50s. LONG TERM...Saturday Night Through Thursday Fortunately, for those interested in the long term portion of the forecast, not many changes were made this afternoon. The main weather story remains the Arctic blast of air set to spill into the state Saturday night into Sunday and linger through the middle of next week. Saturday night into Sunday, a stalled front will be in place across southern Arkansas with an area of low pressure developing over central TX. Through Sunday morning, the low will track across southern Arkansas/northern Louisiana and should be east of the state by mid-day. Simultaneously, the arctic cold front will be making rapid progress south with much colder air spilling across the region. Increased lift over the area will allow for widespread rainfall as well as some isolated TS activity, but given the latest track of the surface low, the warm sector will remain south of the area. Given this, surface based instability will be virtually non-existent with only some elevated CAPE expected to spread north to around the I-40 corridor. Precip will persist through much of the day on Sunday and as the cold air moves in from the north, a transition is expected to take place across northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. A mix of -FZRA and sleet will be possible around 12z Sunday with a gradual shift to snowfall as the cold air deepens. As with so many other systems this Winter, it will again be a race between sufficiently cold air and departing precipitation which has led to more than a few gray hairs this season for many forecasters. At this time, some light snowfall is in the forecast across roughly the northern 2-3 rows of counties. Beyond the threat of winter weather, cold air will be in place with single digit lows possible Monday morning across the north. Given N- NW winds aoa 10mph, wind chill values could go below zero in some spots Monday morning as well. For the rest of the period, dry conditions and below normal temperatures are expected. && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories...NONE. && Aviation...SHELTON
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 1115 PM CST Thu Feb 28 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- 1115 PM CST Thu Feb 28 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Overnight Patchy fog and drizzle will be noted overnight, primarily across central and southern Arkansas. Motorists should use extra caution if reduced visibilities are encountered. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday Through Wednesday River flooding will continue in the coming days along the Black, Cache, lower White, and Ouachita Rivers. It will turn much colder this weekend. A light wintry mix is in the forecast late Saturday night into Sunday, especially across northern sections of the state. Data suggests some light freezing rain initially, becoming sleet and light snow as the event comes to a close. Advisory criteria accumulations are possible. Refer to the latest forecasts in the coming days for updated information. A reinforcing shot of arctic air will settle into the region early next week. Blustery conditions are expected by Monday morning, with wind chill indices in the single digits and teens over much of the area. Parts of north Arkansas could even see sub zero wind chill readings early Monday morning. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation will not be needed. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. 44
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ouachita River at Camden continued to be flooded from rainfall in February.
The Black River at Black Rock continued to be flooded from rainfall in February.
Flooding continued on the Black River at Pocahontas from rainfall in February.
Flooding continued on the Cache River at Patterson from rainfall in February.
Flooding continued through March on the White River at Augusta, from rainfall in February.
Flooding continued through March on the White River at Georgetown, from rainfall in February.
Flooding continued most of March on the White River at Des Arc, from rainfall in February.
Flooding continued through March on the White River at Clarendon, from rainfall in February.
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, March 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: 814277, 814278, 814279, 814281, 814297, 814298, 814299, 814300.