May 3, 2009
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.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 159500). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Ouachita County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.