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Flash Flood — Little River, AR

Aug 12, 2020

An upper level trough shifted southeast across Eastern Oklahoma and much of Arkansas during the early morning hours of August 12th, which helped to ignite scattered showers and thunderstorms over these areas. A weak inverted surface trough had developed along the Red River Valley of Southeast Oklahoma and extreme Northeast Texas, with a 25-30 kt southwesterly low level jet feeding near and atop this boundary along the base of the upper trough. As a result, a complex of showers and thunderstorms

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 906891). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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