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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.

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Clark, AR · May 16, 2020

On the 15th, the focus was mainly to the west of Arkansas. Showers and thunderstorms became widespread across the southern Plains surrounding a storm system wobbling this way from the southwest.

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Scott, AR · May 16, 2020

On the 15th, the focus was mainly to the west of Arkansas. Showers and thunderstorms became widespread across the southern Plains surrounding a storm system wobbling this way from the southwest.

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Montgomery, AR · May 17, 2020

On the 15th, the focus was mainly to the west of Arkansas. Showers and thunderstorms became widespread across the southern Plains surrounding a storm system wobbling this way from the southwest.

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Montgomery, AR · May 17, 2020

On the 15th, the focus was mainly to the west of Arkansas. Showers and thunderstorms became widespread across the southern Plains surrounding a storm system wobbling this way from the southwest.

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Little River, AR · May 16, 2020

A slow moving upper level low pressure system drifted east across Central and Eastern Texas during the daytime hours of May 16th. Meanwhile, the attendant surface low pressure system over East Central Texas drifted east into Northeast Texas during the afternoon, with a southerly…

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Scott, AR · May 15, 2020

On the 15th, the focus was mainly to the west of Arkansas. Showers and thunderstorms became widespread across the southern Plains surrounding a storm system wobbling this way from the southwest.

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Faulkner, AR · May 16, 2020

On the 15th, the focus was mainly to the west of Arkansas. Showers and thunderstorms became widespread across the southern Plains surrounding a storm system wobbling this way from the southwest.

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Sebastian, AR · May 22, 2020

Thunderstorms developed over western Kansas during the evening of the 21st, to the north of a low pressure system centered over the Oklahoma Panhandle.

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Lafayette, AR · Feb 12, 2020

Areas of showers remained persistent across much of the Ark-La-Tex through much of the day on February 11th, along the subtropical jet stream that extended over much of Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system just off the…

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Lafayette, AR · Feb 12, 2020

Areas of showers remained persistent across much of the Ark-La-Tex through much of the day on February 11th, along the subtropical jet stream that extended over much of Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system just off the…

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Lafayette, AR · Feb 12, 2020

Areas of showers remained persistent across much of the Ark-La-Tex through much of the day on February 11th, along the subtropical jet stream that extended over much of Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system just off the…

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Hot Spring, AR · Feb 18, 2020

It warmed up by the 18th, with 50s across the northern counties, and 60s/70s farther south. It was 72 degrees at Monticello (Drew County). Yet another cold front from Canada was on the horizon.||As the front neared, rain and scattered thunderstorms developed during the morning…

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Saline, AR · Feb 18, 2020

It warmed up by the 18th, with 50s across the northern counties, and 60s/70s farther south. It was 72 degrees at Monticello (Drew County). Yet another cold front from Canada was on the horizon.||As the front neared, rain and scattered thunderstorms developed during the morning…

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Grant, AR · Feb 18, 2020

It warmed up by the 18th, with 50s across the northern counties, and 60s/70s farther south. It was 72 degrees at Monticello (Drew County). Yet another cold front from Canada was on the horizon.||As the front neared, rain and scattered thunderstorms developed during the morning…

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Pulaski, AR · Jul 9, 2020

On the 9th, storms were in the forecast locally. The event got kickstarted during the wee hours from Nebraska into Kansas, and a lot of wind damage was reported. However, there was a loss of intensity by the time the fireworks reached northwest Arkansas before lunchtime.

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Grant, AR · Jul 2, 2020

While it was hot on the 1st, with heat index values from 100 to 105 degrees in central and southern sections of the state, it was more oppressive on the 2nd and it affected much of the region.

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Grant, AR · Jul 2, 2020

While it was hot on the 1st, with heat index values from 100 to 105 degrees in central and southern sections of the state, it was more oppressive on the 2nd and it affected much of the region.

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Pulaski, AR · Jul 9, 2020

On the 9th, storms were in the forecast locally. The event got kickstarted during the wee hours from Nebraska into Kansas, and a lot of wind damage was reported. However, there was a loss of intensity by the time the fireworks reached northwest Arkansas before lunchtime.

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Miller, AR · Jul 6, 2020

Showers and thunderstorms were numerous throughout the morning and afternoon hours on July 6th across portions of East Texas and Southwest Arkansas, ahead of a nearly stationary weak upper level low that lingered over extreme Northeast Texas.

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Miller, AR · Jul 6, 2020

Showers and thunderstorms were numerous throughout the morning and afternoon hours on July 6th across portions of East Texas and Southwest Arkansas, ahead of a nearly stationary weak upper level low that lingered over extreme Northeast Texas.

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Columbia, AR · Jul 6, 2020

Showers and thunderstorms were numerous throughout the morning and afternoon hours on July 6th across portions of East Texas and Southwest Arkansas, ahead of a nearly stationary weak upper level low that lingered over extreme Northeast Texas.

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Lawrence, AR · Aug 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Laura moved ashore from the Gulf of Mexico near Cameron, LA, around 1200 AM CST on August 27, 2020 with 150 mph sustained winds! This part of the state had never experienced such a powerful (Category 4) hurricane.

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Lawrence, AR · Aug 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Laura moved ashore from the Gulf of Mexico near Cameron, LA, around 1200 AM CST on August 27, 2020 with 150 mph sustained winds! This part of the state had never experienced such a powerful (Category 4) hurricane.

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Polk, AR · Aug 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Laura moved ashore from the Gulf of Mexico near Cameron, LA, around 1200 AM CST on August 27, 2020 with 150 mph sustained winds! This part of the state had never experienced such a powerful (Category 4) hurricane.

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