2,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arkansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rain brought flooding to rivers in northeast Arkansas in mid November. ||In the twenty four hour period ending at 700 pm CST on the 7th, 2.95 inches of liquid fell at Harrison (Boone County), with 2.86 inches at Mountain Home (Baxter County), 2.43 inches at Mount Ida…
Read the full account →Other than a couple large hail reports from Dec 29 across Drew and Bradley Counties, there wasn't much severe weather reported across Arkansas near the end of the year, widespread rain and thunderstorms were noted on Dec 29 and again on Dec 31.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →A strong storm system and associated cold front moved around the periphery of a high pressure system situated over the Gulf of Mexico. The boundary triggered scattered severe thunderstorms in northern Arkansas during the night-time hours bringing to large hail, damaging winds,…
Read the full account →A strong storm system and associated cold front moved around the periphery of a high pressure system situated over the Gulf of Mexico. The boundary triggered scattered severe thunderstorms in northern Arkansas during the night-time hours bringing to large hail, damaging winds,…
Read the full account →A strong storm system and associated cold front moved around the periphery of a high pressure system situated over the Gulf of Mexico. The boundary triggered scattered severe thunderstorms in northern Arkansas during the night-time hours bringing to large hail, damaging winds,…
Read the full account →A strong storm system and associated cold front moved around the periphery of a high pressure system situated over the Gulf of Mexico. The boundary triggered scattered severe thunderstorms in northern Arkansas during the night-time hours bringing to large hail, damaging winds,…
Read the full account →Broad northwest flow aloft brought repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms to Arkansas. A stagnant weather pattern promoted water levels to rise above flood state across portion of Arkansas.
Read the full account →Broad northwest flow aloft brought repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms to Arkansas. A stagnant weather pattern promoted water levels to rise above flood state across portion of Arkansas.
Read the full account →Broad northwest flow aloft brought repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms to Arkansas. A stagnant weather pattern promoted water levels to rise above flood state across portion of Arkansas.
Read the full account →Broad northwest flow aloft brought repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms to Arkansas. A stagnant weather pattern promoted water levels to rise above flood state across portion of Arkansas.
Read the full account →Broad northwest flow aloft brought repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms to Arkansas. A stagnant weather pattern promoted water levels to rise above flood state across portion of Arkansas.
Read the full account →Broad northwest flow aloft brought repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms to Arkansas. A stagnant weather pattern promoted water levels to rise above flood state across portion of Arkansas.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary front near the Arkansas and Louisiana border lifted to the north, allowing warm/humid air to filter into the region from the Gulf Coast. Meanwhile, a new cold front approached from the Plains, and moved into a destabilizing atmosphere.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine passed to the west and north of Arkansas. As a result, tropical moisture was pulled up into Arkansas. A stationary front concentrated the heaviest rain across northern Arkansas.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine passed to the west and north of Arkansas. As a result, tropical moisture was pulled up into Arkansas. A stationary front concentrated the heaviest rain across northern Arkansas.
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 →Above normal rainfall across Southern Missouri and Northeast Arkansas brought the Black River to record-setting levels from mid-March to the end of March. The record setting levels put pressure on many levees in the area causing a few breaks.
Read the full account →Widespread showers and thunderstorms, in association with an upper level low pressure system, resulted in excessive heavy rainfall across much of the region on October 13th. Widespread 2 to 4 inches were reported with isolated amounts in excess of 8 inches were reported.
Read the full account →A strong cold front embedded with a weak short wave of low pressure aloft moved into northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas. Storms developed along this boundary and shear was excessive enough such that a weak tornado developed along the boundary.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over northwestern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma during the evening of the 18th. These storms moved northeast and affected portions of northwestern Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 19th.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over northwestern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma during the evening of the 18th. These storms moved northeast and affected portions of northwestern Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 19th.
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