A levee broke on the Cache River near Pitts, Arkansas during the morning hours of January 29, 2024. Flash flooding was reported in the Pitts, Arkansas area.
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A levee broke on the Cache River near Pitts, Arkansas during the morning hours of January 29, 2024. Flash flooding was reported in the Pitts, Arkansas area.
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 29, 5:31 AM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Memphis TN 531 AM CST Mon Jan 29 2024 ...New AVIATION... .SYNOPSIS... Issued at 408 AM CST Mon Jan 29 2024 Clearing skies and warming temperatures will start the workweek. A cold front will push through Tuesday resulting in cooler temperatures for the middle of the week. Dry weather will prevail for the end of the week with temperatures returning to above normal. Rain chances return for the weekend, mainly on Sunday. && .DISCUSSION... (Today through Sunday) Issued at 408 AM CST Mon Jan 29 2024 Lingering low clouds bisect the Mid-South this morning. Patchy fog/freezing fog has developed invof bodies of water mainly across parts of north MS especially around Oxford and Sardis/Enid Lakes. Be careful if you encounter fog this morning. It could create a slick bridge deck. Temps are in the upper 20s and lower 30s where skies are clear and in the mid to upper 30s under the cloud deck that covers most of West TN and parts of NE MS. Clouds are filling back across the Memphis metro and parts of north MS this morning as northerly low level winds advect clouds south. Low clouds will gradually clear the area through the day as high pressure builds into the region with sunshine returning with highs in the 40s to lower 50s. High pressure will slide SE of the area tonight with southerly winds developing across the Delta. Colder temps tonight will be toward the TN River and NE MS where winds will still decouple. A cold front will move through the region on Tuesday. Areas south of I-40 will warm nicely with highs around 60. Cooler air moving into areas along the KY/MO border will stunt temps there with readings only in the lower 50s. Some models continue to show the possibility of a few showers across NW TN and along the TN River but these are still the outliers for now. Wednesday will be chilly under a brisk north breeze and possibly some post frontal low clouds. High pressure will prevail for the end of the week with moderating temps back to above normal. An omega block develops over the CONUS by the end of the week with upper level high pressure over the Northern Plains and upper lows near the Pacific NW and New England. The forecast problem is how the energy moving out of the SW US tracks across the southern US. Latest data indicates that the energy will be slower to eject and perhaps Saturday can be salvaged across the Mid-South. The global ensemble systems track an upper low across the Lower MS Valley by Sunday with showers across the Mid-South. Some cluster analyses indicate that the upper low could take a track a little further south which would keep northern areas of the Mid-South a little drier though in just about all solutions north MS is in for a wetting rain on Sunday. && .AVIATION... (12Z TAFS) Issued at 531 AM CST Mon Jan 29 2024 IFR/MVFR ceilings will continue to drift slowly south this morning. South of these clouds in north MS, some patchy fog/freezing fog has developed, but will remain west of the TUP terminal. Clouds will gradually clear from west to east this afternoon with generally benign wx conditions overnight. Some outlying guidance is hinting at patchy fog/cigs again tonight, but confidence is too low to mention at this time. Expected light northwest winds today becoming southwest tonight. && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. MO...None. MS...Flash Flood Watch through this afternoon for MSZ007-011-020. TN...None. && PUBLIC FORECAST...SJM AVIATION...MJ
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:56 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A levee on the Cache River near Pitts, AR failed. This caused flash flooding of the immediate surrounding area.
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