2,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arkansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rainfall in April and May kept some rivers across the state above flood stage from late April through part of June. The White River at Augusta remained above flood stage from the last week of April through early July.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in April and May kept some rivers across the state above flood stage from late April through part of June. The White River at Augusta remained above flood stage from the last week of April through early July.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms developed into west central Arkansas during the morning through early afternoon of the 8th. High water content in the air across the region promoted locally heavy rainfall from the strongest activity, which subsequently resulted in some flash…
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms developed into west central Arkansas during the morning through early afternoon of the 8th. High water content in the air across the region promoted locally heavy rainfall from the strongest activity, which subsequently resulted in some flash…
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms developed into west central Arkansas during the morning through early afternoon of the 8th. High water content in the air across the region promoted locally heavy rainfall from the strongest activity, which subsequently resulted in some flash…
Read the full account →Periodic heavy rainfall in September caused a number of river forecast points in the Little Rock Hydrologic Service Area to exceed flood stage.
Read the full account →On the morning and afternoon of the 30th, a cold front interacted with a moist and unstable airmass. The rich air mass caused some locally heavy rains across southeast Arkansas. There were closures of roads due to flooded conditions over portions of Ashley and Chicot counties.
Read the full account →A warm, moist, unstable air mass was over Arkansas at the beginning of May. Areas of low pressure aloft moving across the state triggered scattered thunderstorms.||At North Little Rock and Morrilton, the rain contributed to making it the wettest May ever recorded in those cities.
Read the full account →An upper low continued to meander across the region on June 9, 2021. Weak upper-level disturbances rotated around the upper low and interacted with a very moist air mass across the Mid-South to produce several rounds of heavy rain across East-Central Arkansas and North…
Read the full account →An upper low continued to meander across the region on June 9, 2021. Weak upper-level disturbances rotated around the upper low and interacted with a very moist air mass across the Mid-South to produce several rounds of heavy rain across East-Central Arkansas and North…
Read the full account →Rain and isolated thunderstorms arrived during the afternoon and evening of February 27, and continued through much of February 28. Two to more than four inches of rain was common in central and southern sections of the state.||Forty eight hour rainfall through 600 am CST on…
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 →A warm front had begun to lift north across Deep East Texas and Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of May 3rd, in response to a developing area of surface low pressure over Westcentral Texas along a cold front that extended northeast into Central Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A warm front had begun to lift north across Deep East Texas and Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of May 3rd, in response to a developing area of surface low pressure over Westcentral Texas along a cold front that extended northeast into Central Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A warm front had begun to lift north across Deep East Texas and Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of May 3rd, in response to a developing area of surface low pressure over Westcentral Texas along a cold front that extended northeast into Central Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A warm front had begun to lift north across Deep East Texas and Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of May 3rd, in response to a developing area of surface low pressure over Westcentral Texas along a cold front that extended northeast into Central Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A warm front had begun to lift north across Deep East Texas and Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of May 3rd, in response to a developing area of surface low pressure over Westcentral Texas along a cold front that extended northeast into Central Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A warm front had begun to lift north across Deep East Texas and Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of May 3rd, in response to a developing area of surface low pressure over Westcentral Texas along a cold front that extended northeast into Central Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A slow-moving, strong upper level storm system moved from the Central Rockies into the Central Plains on the 18th and 19th. A dry line sharpened ahead of this system across western Oklahoma by early afternoon on the 18th, as a frontal boundary over northern Oklahoma shifted…
Read the full account →A cold front stalled northwest of the Four-State Region over Western Arkansas, Southeast Oklahoma, and North Texas, while a moist and unstable air mass developed ahead of the front during the afternoon and evening of April 10th.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms brought damaging winds and flooding.||The rain intensified and was widespread south and east of Little Rock (Pulaski County) during the wee hours of the 23rd. This is when Cindy crossed the region.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms brought damaging winds and flooding.||The rain intensified and was widespread south and east of Little Rock (Pulaski County) during the wee hours of the 23rd. This is when Cindy crossed the region.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms brought damaging winds and flooding.||The rain intensified and was widespread south and east of Little Rock (Pulaski County) during the wee hours of the 23rd. This is when Cindy crossed the region.
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