2,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arkansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
After a brief respite from severe thunderstorms during the predawn hours on April 29th, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed from the late morning hours through much of the afternoon and evening on April 29th, and lingered through the early morning hours on April…
Read the full account →After a brief respite from severe thunderstorms during the predawn hours on April 29th, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed from the late morning hours through much of the afternoon and evening on April 29th, and lingered through the early morning hours on April…
Read the full account →A classic heavy rain pattern set up over the Mid-South during the period of March 9th, 2016 to March 13th, 2016. A cold front stretched from Nebraska to Texas on the morning of March 8th.
Read the full account →A classic heavy rain pattern set up over the Mid-South during the period of March 9th, 2016 to March 13th, 2016. A cold front stretched from Nebraska to Texas on the morning of March 8th.
Read the full account →After a brief respite from severe thunderstorms during the predawn hours on April 29th, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed from the late morning hours through much of the afternoon and evening on April 29th, and lingered through the early morning hours on April…
Read the full account →After a brief respite from severe thunderstorms during the predawn hours on April 29th, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed from the late morning hours through much of the afternoon and evening on April 29th, and lingered through the early morning hours on April…
Read the full account →After a brief respite from severe thunderstorms during the predawn hours on April 29th, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed from the late morning hours through much of the afternoon and evening on April 29th, and lingered through the early morning hours on April…
Read the full account →After a brief respite from severe thunderstorms during the predawn hours on April 29th, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed from the late morning hours through much of the afternoon and evening on April 29th, and lingered through the early morning hours on April…
Read the full account →After a brief respite from severe thunderstorms during the predawn hours on April 29th, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed from the late morning hours through much of the afternoon and evening on April 29th, and lingered through the early morning hours on April…
Read the full account →A hot, humid, and unstable air mass was in place across much of the Ark-La-Tex region on August 25th, which sat on the western periphery of an upper level ridge of high pressure that was anchored over the Tennessee Valley.
Read the full account →Upper level ridging was centered across Central Texas during the afternoon of August 6th but there was just enough of a weakness aloft across Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas for showers and thunderstorms to form with the aid of afternoon heating.
Read the full account →A weak upper level trough of low pressure remained stationary from Central Texas northeast across Eastern Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas, and into Southern Missouri on August 16th.
Read the full account →A weak upper level trough of low pressure remained stationary from Central Texas northeast across Eastern Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas, and into Southern Missouri on August 16th.
Read the full account →A weak upper level trough of low pressure remained stationary from Central Texas northeast across Eastern Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas, and into Southern Missouri on August 16th.
Read the full account →A strong upper level low pressure system moved from the desert southwest into the Southern Plains in late December. Unseasonably moist air was in place across the region ahead of this approaching system as Pacific moisture in the mid and upper levels combined with very moist air…
Read the full account →A strong upper level low pressure system moved from the desert southwest into the Southern Plains in late December. Unseasonably moist air was in place across the region ahead of this approaching system as Pacific moisture in the mid and upper levels combined with very moist air…
Read the full account →A strong upper level low pressure system moved from the desert southwest into the Southern Plains in late December. Unseasonably moist air was in place across the region ahead of this approaching system as Pacific moisture in the mid and upper levels combined with very moist air…
Read the full account →A classic heavy rain pattern set up over the Mid-South during the period of March 9th, 2016 to March 13th, 2016. A cold front stretched from Nebraska to Texas on the morning of March 8th.
Read the full account →The approach of a weak cold front triggered thunderstorms with large amounts of lightning, along with isolated instances of severe weather and flash flooding on the 15th.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall late in the month brought flooding to to portions of the state. Ninety-six hour (four day) rainfall amounts through 600 am CST on the 30th included 4.67 inches at Harrison (Boone County), 4.12 inches at Mountain Home (Baxter County), 2.91 inches at Pine Bluff…
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall late in the month brought flooding to to portions of the state. Ninety-six hour (four day) rainfall amounts through 600 am CST on the 30th included 4.67 inches at Harrison (Boone County), 4.12 inches at Mountain Home (Baxter County), 2.91 inches at Pine Bluff…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across northeast Oklahoma and far northwest Arkansas during the late evening of the 25th, and continued across the region into the early morning hours of the 26th.
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 →On the 26th, a large upper level storm system moved towards Arkansas from the southwest causing a stalled front in the Plains to move northeast across Arkansas. Thunderstorms along the front surged into Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 27th.
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