2,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arkansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →On the 1st, several inches of rain dumped from Mena (Polk County) and Waldron (Scott County) to Russellville (Pope County), and Mountain View (Stone County).||The ground was already saturated in parts of the west after more than a foot of precipitation in August.
Read the full account →While it appeared the big storms were over, there was one more round from west central into central sections of the state on the 29th. Clouds and downpours yielded high temperatures of only 77 degrees at Conway (Faulkner County) and North Little Rock (Pulaski County), 78…
Read the full account →A big gullywasher came on the 28th as the system in the Plains neared. Rain came down in buckets over the northern half of the state, with four to more than five inch amounts at several locations. This included Des Arc (Prairie County) and Harrison (Boone County).
Read the full account →A big gullywasher came on the 28th as the system in the Plains neared. Rain came down in buckets over the northern half of the state, with four to more than five inch amounts at several locations. This included Des Arc (Prairie County) and Harrison (Boone County).
Read the full account →A big gullywasher came on the 28th as the system in the Plains neared. Rain came down in buckets over the northern half of the state, with four to more than five inch amounts at several locations. This included Des Arc (Prairie County) and Harrison (Boone County).
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →By the 20th/21st, thunder was back again as a large storm system wobbled from the western United States into the middle of the country. The more active of the two days (including some severe weather) was the 21st. The focus was over southern and western sections of the state.
Read the full account →By the 20th/21st, thunder was back again as a large storm system wobbled from the western United States into the middle of the country. The more active of the two days (including some severe weather) was the 21st. The focus was over southern and western sections of the state.
Read the full account →By the 20th/21st, thunder was back again as a large storm system wobbled from the western United States into the middle of the country. The more active of the two days (including some severe weather) was the 21st. The focus was over southern and western sections of the state.
Read the full account →By the 20th/21st, thunder was back again as a large storm system wobbled from the western United States into the middle of the country. The more active of the two days (including some severe weather) was the 21st. The focus was over southern and western sections of the state.
Read the full account →While it appeared the big storms were over, there was one more round from west central into central sections of the state on the 29th. Clouds and downpours yielded high temperatures of only 77 degrees at Conway (Faulkner County) and North Little Rock (Pulaski County), 78…
Read the full account →While it appeared the big storms were over, there was one more round from west central into central sections of the state on the 29th. Clouds and downpours yielded high temperatures of only 77 degrees at Conway (Faulkner County) and North Little Rock (Pulaski County), 78…
Read the full account →An upper ridge was west of Arkansas and not directly over the state allowing thunderstorms to develop around its eastern periphery. On the 3rd, scattered storms popped up during the heat of the afternoon, with spotty severe weather in the north.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) from a decayed area of showers and thunderstorms over Southeast Oklahoma drifted east into the northern sections of Southwest Arkansas during the afternoon and evening hours of June 21st, along a weak shortwave trough that drifted east across…
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) from a decayed area of showers and thunderstorms over Southeast Oklahoma drifted east into the northern sections of Southwest Arkansas during the afternoon and evening hours of June 21st, along a weak shortwave trough that drifted east across…
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