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Flash Flood — Perry, AR

Aug 10, 2019

On the 7th, a front pushed into the region. Temperatures were in the 90s, and it was the hottest day of the year so far at some locations. At Little Rock (Pulaski County), for example, the mercury reached 99 degrees. It was also humid, and this created heat index values over 110 degrees in spots.||Relief came to parts of the state when hit and miss thunderstorms popped up in the afternoon. The storms gradually worked southward with the front, and unleashed more wind. ||A lone storm in western Ar

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 846387). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Perry, AR

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