To the south, Tropical Storm Cristobal ventured from the Yucatan Peninsula on the 5th to the Louisiana coast on the 7th. The system made landfall between the mouth of the Mississippi River and Grand Isle, LA at 410 pm CST on the 7th with maximum sustained winds around 50 mph.
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The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
To the south, Tropical Storm Cristobal ventured from the Yucatan Peninsula on the 5th to the Louisiana coast on the 7th. The system made landfall between the mouth of the Mississippi River and Grand Isle, LA at 410 pm CST on the 7th with maximum sustained winds around 50 mph. The remnants of Cristobal continued northward into Arkansas on the 8th, and brought widespread downpours and northeast winds gusting from 30 to 40 mph in places.
Overall, this did not turn into a huge event (impacts were minimal). Twenty hour hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on the 9th was mostly from one to three inches. Some locations received three to four inches including Cane Creek State Park (Lincoln County), DeGray Lake State Park (Clark/Hot Spring Counties), Marche (Pulaski County), Mammoth Spring (Fulton County), just north of Mountain Home (Baxter County), Mountain View (Stone County), and Sheridan (Grant County).
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 Jun 8, 2:20 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Little Rock AR 320 PM CDT Mon Jun 8 2020 .SHORT TERM...Today Through Wednesday As of 19Z, surface observations and 1 minute visible satellite imagery from GOES-16 place the center of Cristobal near the boundary of Bradley, Union, and Ashley counties. To the north and west of the center, a broad rain shield with some embedded heavier banding was dropping rainfall at approximately 1 to 1.5 inches per hour. Although widespread flooding was not occurring at the time of this discussion, the slow movement of Cristobal combined with the likelihood of this rain shield persisting over Arkansas as it moves north, think that the flash flood threat is great enough to keep the Flash Flood Watch in effect through 12Z Tuesday morning. Comparing rain gauges to radar estimated precipitation indicated that the radar was underestimating precipitation by 0.25 to 0.50 inches or by a ratio of approximately 1.2 to 1 (e.g. multiply total rainfall by 1.2 to get actual rainfall). Infrared satellite imagery and radar data indicated that warm rain processes/ collision and coalescence were dominating with relatively warm cloud tops despite bands of 40+ dBZ on radar. In general this supports the threat for continued heavy rainfall and flooding out ahead/north of and west of Cristobal as it moves slowly north for the remainder of this afternoon and into the overnight hours. The widespread rainfall and associated cloud cover over the state has prevented the lower atmosphere from heating up much today, and this is probably why we haven't seen much in the way of isolated cells posing a tornado threat in any of the bands of Cristobal thus far today. The cloud cover isn't going to change, and the loss of daytime heating won't make the ground warmer, so anticipate that the tornado threat will remain low, non-zero, but low, across eastern Arkansas this evening into the early overnight hours. Throughout the day on Tuesday, the remnants of Cristobal will merge with a strong upper level trough, actually making the remnants of Cristobal a bit stronger, but completely changing its dynamics as it moves northeast away from Arkansas. Cristobal will essentially become a shot of moisture fueling widespread showers and thunderstorms across the upper Midwest as Tuesday progresses. The strong upper level trough however will send a strong (for June anyways) cold front across Arkansas from late Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday night. The combined lift associated with the front and the upper level trough may be enough to support a line of showers and isolated thunderstorms along the front as it moves east across Arkansas. Kept some 20-30 POPs in the forecast for precipitation along the front Tuesday night through Wednesday morning. As soon as the front moves east of a location in Arkansas, precipitation will end almost immediately as it will be significantly drier behind the cold front. Before the cold front arrives late on Tuesday, dry air and subsidence aloft in the wake of Cristobal will allow for typical hot and humid day across Arkansas. Highs will top out in the lower to mid 90s with afternoon heat index values topping out just over 100 degrees. Behind the front on Wednesday, it should be a beautiful day outdoors with highs in the lower 80s and humidity falling to about 40 percent during the peak heating hours of the day. Cavanaugh && .LONG TERM...Wednesday Night Through Monday Fairly benign weather expected for the long term, as high pressure at the surface and aloft builds into the region. Temperatures will moderate through the period, but for most of it, readings should be within a few degrees of averages as surface flow maintains an easterly or northeasterly component. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Batesville AR 73 91 63 80 / 100 30 20 0 Camden AR 72 95 63 87 / 70 10 30 0 Harrison AR 70 89 58 76 / 100 20 10 0 Hot Springs AR 71 93 62 83 / 80 10 20 0 Little Rock AR 73 93 63 82 / 100 10 30 0 Monticello AR 73 93 67 84 / 100 10 40 0 Mount Ida AR 70 93 60 82 / 70 10 20 0 Mountain Home AR 70 90 60 76 / 100 30 20 0 Newport AR 74 89 66 79 / 100 30 30 0 Pine Bluff AR 73 93 66 83 / 100 10 30 0 Russellville AR 71 93 61 81 / 100 10 20 0 Searcy AR 73 93 63 82 / 100 10 20 0 Stuttgart AR 75 92 66 82 / 100 10 30 0 && .LZK Watches/Warnings/Advisories... Flash Flood Watch through Tuesday morning FOR Arkansas-Baxter- Boone-Bradley-Calhoun-Clark-Cleburne-Cleveland-Conway-Dallas- Desha-Drew-Faulkner-Fulton-Garland-Grant-Hot Spring-Independence- Izard-Jackson-Jefferson-Johnson-Lawrence-Lincoln-Logan-Lonoke- Marion-Monroe-Montgomery-Newton-Ouachita-Perry-Pike-Pope-Prairie- Pulaski-Randolph-Saline-Searcy-Sharp-Stone-Van Buren-White- Woodruff-Yell. Wind Advisory until 7 PM CDT Tuesday FOR Arkansas-Desha-Drew- Independence-Jackson-Jefferson-Lawrence-Lincoln-Lonoke-Monroe- Prairie-Pulaski-Randolph-Sharp-White-Woodruff. && Short Term...CAVANAUGH / Long Term...57
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Little Rock AR 415 AM CDT Mon Jun 8 2020 ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091000- 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- 415 AM CDT Mon Jun 8 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight The remnants of Cristobal will move into state today from southeast to northwest, overspreading the entire state by tonight. Widespread heavy rain, totaling two to four inches with locally higher amounts, is possible. Given these potential rainfall amounts in a relatively short amount of time, flash flooding will be a concern. Winds are expected to be elevated today and tonight with sustained winds of 15-30 mph likely along with gusts approaching 45 mph, especially across the Delta region of eastern Arkansas. With recent soil moisture rather high and winds out of the east, trees will be more susceptible to toppling over. Power outages will also be possible. Lastly, with any landing falling tropical systems, isolated tornadoes are possible. Any tornadoes that form should be short lived. The greatest risk area would be across the eastern half of Arkansas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday Through Sunday The remnants of Cristobal will linger into Tuesday morning bringing continued chances of heavy rainfall to portions of northern Arkansas. Gusty winds of 15-30 mph will be possible on Tuesday as the remnants of Cristobal move away from the region. Beyond Tuesday, no hazardous weather is expected. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter Activation May Be Needed Monday. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. 44/230
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:27 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several reports were received of high water in the county due to heavy rain.
Water was over Highway 46 northeast of Sheridan.
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