Drought, Lafayette
- When
- October 1, 12:00 AM CST to October 7, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Lafayette forecast zone
- Reported by
- Drought Monitor
- Coordinates
- 33.241, -93.607 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought in Arkansas, October 1 to 7, 2019
Severe drought (D2) conditions continued across portions of Southwest Arkansas (including Lafayette and Columbia Counties) through the first week of October, as near record heat in the mid 90s persisted across the area. The first cold front of the Fall season moved through Southwest Arkansas on the 7th, resulting in rainfall amounts of up to an inch across the drought stricken area.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
Severe drought (D2) conditions continued across portions of Southwest Arkansas (including Lafayette and Columbia Counties) through the first week of October, as near record heat in the mid 90s persisted across the area. The first cold front of the Fall season moved through Southwest Arkansas on the 7th, resulting in rainfall amounts of up to an inch across the drought stricken area. This wetting rain, along with below normal temperatures, was enough to result in a one category improvement in drought to moderate (D1) across Lafayette and Columbia Counties. The passage of a few additional cold fronts during the final three weeks of October resulted in above normal monthly rainfall amounts of five to ten inches across this area, thus ending the drought by the first week of November.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Drought, Columbia
- When
- October 1, 12:00 AM CST to October 7, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Columbia forecast zone
- Reported by
- Drought Monitor
- Coordinates
- 33.214, -93.227 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Drought
- A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in New York, October 1, 2019
- Drought in Virginia, October 1 to 22, 2019
- Drought in North Carolina, October 1 to 22, 2019
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, October 1 to 2, 2019
- Drought in West Virginia, October 1 to 22, 2019
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, October 1, 2019
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, October 1, 2019
- Flooding in Wisconsin, October 1 to 31, 2019
- Drought in Georgia, October 1 to 31, 2019
- Flooding in Michigan, October 1 to 2, 2019
- Flooding in South Dakota, October 1 to 31, 2019
- Flooding in South Dakota, October 1 to 31, 2019
More
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Sources
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 856679, 856680.