2,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arkansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Several rounds of very heavy rainfall during the latter half of April caused many rivers across Arkansas to rise above flood stage. Rainfall amounts of 5 inches to well over 10 inches were seen, with much of that rain falling in a period of less than a week.
Read the full account →Widespread heavy rainfall during late April and into the first part of May caused many rivers across the state to rise above flood stage. Many of the rivers rose above flood stage in late April, and the flooding persisted through much of May.
Read the full account →Two rounds of thunderstorms affected Arkansas on the 13th. The first began in southwest Arkansas during the afternoon and then spread across central and eastern sections.
Read the full account →A cold front pushed south into the area during the day on June 3rd, producing scattered to numerous thunderstorms as an abundance moisture and instability was available. Several storms became severe during the afternoon, producing damaging winds and hail.
Read the full account →During the morning of the 30th, a large cluster of thunderstorms known as a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) moved into Arkansas from the southwest. The MCS weakened, leaving behind a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) or small area of circulation aloft.
Read the full account →A slow-moving cluster of thunderstorms developed across portions of west central Arkansas during the morning of the 8th, as an upper level disturbance approached the area from the northwest.
Read the full account →A cold front moved into Arkansas from the north on the 5th, triggering scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms became severe and produced locally heavy rain.
Read the full account →A strongly baroclinic, southwest-northeast oriented front pulled up stationary over eastern Oklahoma on Jan. 4-5. A series of upper level disturbances in southwest flow aloft caused heavy rains to break out across the region. Rainfall totals of three to six inches were common.
Read the full account →Summary of events for May 17 1999:A large bow echo, a radar signature associated with high winds, moved out of eastern Oklahoma and across northwest Arkansas early on the morning of May 17.
Read the full account →Summary of events for June 30 1999:Major flash flooding resulted across northwest Arkansas when a line of thunderstorms, containing torrential rainfall and associated with a nocturnal MCS, moved slowly southeastward across northwest Arkansas on the morning of June 30.
Read the full account →Summary of events for May 17 1999:A large bow echo, a radar signature associated with high winds, moved out of eastern Oklahoma and across northwest Arkansas early on the morning of May 17.
Read the full account →Very moist and unstable air spread into northwestern Arkansas ahead of a strong upper level storm system and associated cold front. This moist and unstable air combined with strong wind shear that was present in the atmosphere resulted in long-lived and organized thunderstorm…
Read the full account →Tropical Depression Gustav entered the southwest corner of Arkansas on the evening of the 2nd and lingered in the southwest part of the state for nearly 24 hours. By mid-evening on the 3rd, Gustav was about 75 miles west of Little Rock.
Read the full account →Tropical Depression Gustav entered the southwest corner of Arkansas on the evening of the 2nd and lingered in the southwest part of the state for nearly 24 hours. By mid-evening on the 3rd, Gustav was about 75 miles west of Little Rock.
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