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Severe Storms/Heavy Rain on August 16-18, 2012
 
A cold front approaching from the northwest helped trigger scattered thunderstorms in northern Arkansas during the afternoon of 08/16/2012. A somewhat active pattern continued in mid-August as a northwest flow aloft brought another cold front into Arkansas.
In the picture: A cold front approaching from the northwest helped trigger scattered thunderstorms in northern Arkansas during the afternoon of 08/16/2012.

 

Temperatures on the 16th soared well into the 90s to around 100 degrees ahead of the front. Highs reached 101 degrees at Fort Smith (Sebastian County), and 99 degrees at Harrison (Boone County), Hot Springs (Garland County), Jonesboro (Craighead County) and Russellville (Pope County). Temperatures at 200 pm CDT on 08/16/2012.
In the picture: Temperatures at 200 pm CDT on 08/16/2012. It was hot and humid in Arkansas, with much cooler conditions to the northwest.

 

Scattered thunderstorms bubbled up quickly north and west of Little Rock (Pulaski County). Barns were damaged by thunderstorm winds at Vendor (Newton County), with chicken house damage near Adona (Perry County). A tree was blown onto a house at Parthenon (Newton County).

Rain was intense, with a few Flash Flood Warnings issued. Twenty four hours amounts through 700 am CDT on the 17th included 3.45 inches at St. Paul (Madison County), 3.00 inches at Marshall (Searcy County), 2.97 inches at Wye (Pulaski County), 2.42 inches at Gilbert (Searcy County), 2.34 inches at Ozone (Johnson County) and 2.27 inches at Cotter (Baxter County).

 

The WSR-88D (Doppler Weather Radar) showed a large area of rain with embedded thunderstorms in southern Arkansas during the morning of 08/18/2012.
The front continued pushing through the state on the 17th before stalling in northern Louisiana. Behind the front, the high temperature was only 75 degrees at Newport (Jackson County), with 79 degrees at Harrison (Boone County) and Mountain Home (Baxter County).
In the picture: The WSR-88D (Doppler Weather Radar) showed a large area of rain with embedded thunderstorms in southern Arkansas during the morning of 08/18/2012. The precipitation was north of a stalled front in northern Louisiana.

 

Farther south, isolated severe storms produced quarter size hail at Burtsell (Clark County) and Sulphur Springs (Jefferson County). Areas of rain with embedded thunderstorms continued across the southern/western counties into the overnight hours and early on the 18th.

 

Twenty four hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on the 18th included 2.30 inches at Sheridan (Grant County), 1.74 inches at Big Fork (Polk County), 1.63 inches at Malvern (Hot Spring County), 1.50 inches at Washita (Montgomery County) and 1.40 inches at Malvern (Hot Spring County). Seventy two hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on 08/19/2012.
In the picture: Seventy two hour rainfall through 700 am CDT on 08/19/2012.

 

After 700 am CDT, more than an inch of rain was measured in parts of southern Arkansas. Felsenthal Lock and Dam (Union County) got 1.49 inches, with 1.37 inches at Camden (Ouachita County), 1.20 inches at DeGray Dam (Clark County), 1.12 inches at Kelso (Desha County) and 1.10 inches at Sparkman (Dallas County). Temperatures maxed out in the mid 70s to mid 80s on the 18th.

 

Storm Reports
Preliminary reports of severe weather in the Little Rock County Warning Area on August 16-17, 2012 (in red).
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There were a few reports of severe weather  in northern and central Arkansas during the afternoon of August 16th, 2012...and in the south on the 17th. 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 August 16-17, 2012 (in red).
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