Aug 10, 2009
High pressure approached the region from the Plains, and provided hot and mostly dry weather in the few days leading up to this event. Clusters of storms tended to form to the north of Arkansas around the high. Cool outflow from one of these clusters worked southward toward the Arkansas and Missouri border during the afternoon of the 10th. Storms tapered off in the northern half of Arkansas after midnight, but precipitation became widespread in the southwest.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 185651). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Conway County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.