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Arkansas Flood Stories

2,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arkansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood$150K damage

Stone, AR · Oct 29, 2009

A large storm system in the Rockies headed through the Plains into the upper Midwest on the 29th. Rain increased ahead of the system, and became widespread in Arkansas. Meanwhile, a cold front arrived from the west.

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Flash Flood$150K damage

Poinsett, AR · May 1, 2010

An upper level disturbance slowly approached the Mid-South during the evening of April 30th, 2010 as a cold front became stationary to the west. This pattern remained in place through the evening hours of May 2nd, 2010.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Garland, AR · Jan 12, 2013

The arrival of a cold front triggered numerous showers and thunderstorms from the afternoon of the 12th through the morning of the 13th. The front stalled for awhile, causing heavy rain to develop near the front.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Pope, AR · Jan 12, 2013

The arrival of a cold front triggered numerous showers and thunderstorms from the afternoon of the 12th through the morning of the 13th. The front stalled for awhile, causing heavy rain to develop near the front.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Pope, AR · Jan 12, 2013

The arrival of a cold front triggered numerous showers and thunderstorms from the afternoon of the 12th through the morning of the 13th. The front stalled for awhile, causing heavy rain to develop near the front.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Scott, AR · Jun 1, 2013

The upper level low pressure system that brought severe weather and flash flooding to Arkansas on May 30th and 31st moved closer to the state on June 1st, producing another round of severe weather and flash flooding.

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Flood$150K damage

Searcy, AR · Apr 10, 2008

There was widespread heavy rain in northern and western Arkansas between the 9th and the 11th of the month. A weather system in Texas dragged a cold front toward the region which produced 24-hour rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches by the morning of the 10th and an additional 1…

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Flood$150K damage

Yell, AR · Apr 10, 2008

There was widespread heavy rain in northern and western Arkansas between the 9th and the 11th of the month. A weather system in Texas dragged a cold front toward the region which produced 24-hour rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches by the morning of the 10th and an additional 1…

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Flood$15K damage

Jackson, AR · Dec 21, 2013

A cold front moved into northwest Arkansas on the morning of the 20th and lingered in the state until the night of the 21st. While the front was making its way slowly across the state, an area of low pressure arrived from the southwest.

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Flash Flood$310K damage

Fulton, AR · Jan 13, 2007

A cold front moved into Arkansas from the northwest on the 12th and eventually stalled out over southeast Arkansas for several days. Meanwhile, a slow moving storm system approached the state from the west.

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Flash Flood$145K damage

Miller, AR · Dec 23, 2009

A strong upper level storm system moved its way out of the southern Great Basin and into the Southern Plains during the afternoon hours of December 23rd.

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Flood$65K damage

Lawrence, AR · Apr 24, 2011

A stationary front remained draped across Southern Missouri into Western Kentucky from April 24th, 2011 into April 25th, 2011. A very warm and unstable atmosphere was in place across the Mid-South ahead of the front.

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Flood$65K damage

Lawrence, AR · May 1, 2011

Heavy rains continued to occur across the Mid-Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley during the beginning part of May. In addition, spring snow melt across the Dakotas and Minnesota continued to create higher than normal river levels on the Mississippi River.

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Flood$600K damage

Perry, AR · Mar 19, 2008

Very heavy rain began developing late on the 17th in northern and western Arkansas, and continued on the 18th and early on the 19th as a powerful storm system approached from Texas.

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Flood$600K damage

Ouachita, AR · Mar 20, 2008

Very heavy rain began developing late on the 17th in northern and western Arkansas, and continued on the 18th and early on the 19th as a powerful storm system approached from Texas.

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Flood$600K damage

Yell, AR · Mar 19, 2008

Very heavy rain began developing late on the 17th in northern and western Arkansas, and continued on the 18th and early on the 19th as a powerful storm system approached from Texas.

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Flood$600K damage

Yell, AR · Mar 19, 2008

Very heavy rain began developing late on the 17th in northern and western Arkansas, and continued on the 18th and early on the 19th as a powerful storm system approached from Texas.

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Flash Flood$135K damage

Hempstead, AR · Dec 23, 2009

A strong upper level storm system moved its way out of the southern Great Basin and into the Southern Plains during the afternoon hours of December 23rd.

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Flash Flood$135K damage

Saline, AR · Oct 29, 2009

A large storm system in the Rockies headed through the Plains into the upper Midwest on the 29th. Rain increased ahead of the system, and became widespread in Arkansas. Meanwhile, a cold front arrived from the west.

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Flash Flood$100K damage

Sebastian, AR · May 12, 2011

A cold front moved across northwestern Arkansas during the evening of the 12th. A warm, moist, and unstable air mass existed over the region ahead of the front.

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Flash Flood$130K damage

Fulton, AR · Oct 29, 2009

A large storm system in the Rockies headed through the Plains into the upper Midwest on the 29th. Rain increased ahead of the system, and became widespread in Arkansas. Meanwhile, a cold front arrived from the west.

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Flash Flood$125K damage

Woodruff, AR · Oct 29, 2009

A large storm system in the Rockies headed through the Plains into the upper Midwest on the 29th. Rain increased ahead of the system, and became widespread in Arkansas. Meanwhile, a cold front arrived from the west.

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Flash Flood$125K damage

Sharp, AR · Oct 29, 2009

A large storm system in the Rockies headed through the Plains into the upper Midwest on the 29th. Rain increased ahead of the system, and became widespread in Arkansas. Meanwhile, a cold front arrived from the west.

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Flash Flood$125K damage

Crawford, AR · Sep 9, 2010

Shower and thunderstorm development on the northern periphery of the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine affected portions of northwest Arkansas beginning on September 7th, while the center was still over central Texas.

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