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Severe Storms on July 19-20, 2012
 
The pattern at 100 pm CDT on 07/20/2012.
After a brief break from the heat in mid-July,  temperatures were over 100 degrees in some areas by the 18th. On the 19th, a weak cold front approached Arkansas from the north.
In the picture: The pattern at 100 pm CDT on 07/20/2012. A cold front arrived from the north. Moisture was abundant (dewpoints in the 70s) ahead of the front in southern and eastern Arkansas. In western sections of the state and into the Plains, a drier air mass was in place (dewpoints in the 50s/60s) surrounding a large ridge of high pressure.

 

Ahead of the front, isolated to scattered thunderstorms fired up mainly in the northern half of the state. As storms collapsed, damaging wind gusts were produced.

 The satellite showed thunderstorms flaring up from the Ohio Valley to northern Arkansas during the afternoon and early evening of 07/19/2012.
In the picture: The satellite showed thunderstorms flaring up from the Ohio Valley to northern Arkansas during the afternoon and early evening of 07/19/2012.

 

Trees and power lines were downed around Damascus (Van Buren County), and several chicken houses sustained roof damage in the area. A tree fell and damaged a house on the south side of Harrison (Boone County). A 54 mph gust (4 mph shy of what is considered severe) was measured at the Little Rock Air Force Base (Pulaski County).

 

High temperatures on 07/20/2012. The front moved into the region on the 20th. The mercury soared to 109 degrees at Hot Springs (Garland County) and Russellville (Pope County). It was 108 degrees at Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Little Rock (Pulaski County).
In the picture: High temperatures on 07/20/2012.

 

Forty eight hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on 07/21/2012.
In the picture: Forty eight hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on 07/21/2012. Rain was spotty under high pressure in the Plains, and where moisture was limited. Away from the high, there was more moisture available, and rain was a little more widespread over the southeast United States.
 

Storms popped up again, and they were farther south this time. A tree was pushed over by winds just northwest of Okolona (Clark County). More imporantly, there was beneficial rain in a narrow swath from just northeast of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) to east of Monticello (Drew County).

 

Rainfall amounts were over two inches in some spots. Because storms were spotty, most locales got little to no rain.

 Forty eight hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on 07/21/2012.
In the picture: Forty eight hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on 07/21/2012. There were spotty amounts over an inch in northwest Arkansas on 07/19/2012, and in the southeast on 07/20/2012.

 

Storm Reports
Preliminary reports of severe weather in the Little Rock County Warning Area on July 19-20, 2012 (in red).
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There were isolated reports of severe weather in Arkansas on July 19th and 20th, 2012. For a look at some reports, click here.
 
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In the picture: Preliminary reports of severe weather in the Little Rock County Warning Area on July 19-20, 2012 (in red).
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