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Flood — Lonoke, AR

Mar 1, 2018

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 March 1st included 4.53 inches at Little Rock (Pulaski County), 4.10 inches at Mount Ida (Montgomery County), 3.42 inches at Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), and 3.02 inches at Hot Springs (Garland County).

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 744592). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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