Aug 15, 2017
Given all of the rain, flooding was almost non-existent locally. That changed on the 15th. The front had lifted a bit to the north by this time, and was draped across central Arkansas. Before dawn, a large cluster of thunderstorms hit areas along and north of the Arkansas River, mainly north and west of Little Rock (Pulaski County). At least two dozen reporting sites registered four inches of rain or more.||By 700 am CDT, a whopping 7.20 inches was reported at Damascus (Van Buren County)! That i
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 717567). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Pope County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.