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Heavy Rain/Severe Weather on March 17-19, 2008 (Pg2) |
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Tornado/Damaging Winds |
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As moisture increased and before the flooding, there was some severe weather in
western Arkansas during the evening of the 17th. |
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picture: The pattern at 5 pm CDT on 03/17/2008...with warmth
and moisture surging to the north with a warm front from the
Gulf Coast region, and a stationary front in southern Missouri.
Heavy rain is expected to develop between the two fronts. |
| One storm produced penny size hail at Vandervoort (Polk
County), and then tore a roof from an addition to a home about 4 miles
east of Cherry Hill (Polk County). A weak tornado was spawned at
the latter location. |
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| In the picture:
The WSR-88D (Doppler Weather Radar) showed tight rotation within a storm
in eastern Polk County around 819 pm CDT on 03/17/2008. |
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During the late morning of the 18th, a bow echo
(backwards "C" shaped line of storms) produced damaging winds
from Hon (Scott County) to Caulksville (Logan County) to 7 miles
east-northeast of Clarksville (Johnson County). |
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picture: The WSR-88D (Doppler Weather Radar) showed a bow echo moving
quickly northeast through western Arkansas during the late morning of
03/18/2008. |
| Widespread flash flood occurred in much of
the northern half of Arkansas on March 18th and into the
19th. Some
isolated severe weather occurred in the western counties
on the 17th/18th, with a weak tornado spawned. For a look at some reports,
click here. |
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| In the picture:
Preliminary reports of severe weather and flash flooding in the Little
Rock County Warning Area on March 17-19, 2008 (in red). |
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