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Heavy Rain/Severe Weather on May 13-15, 2008
 
The pattern will feature a cold front approaching Arkansas with scattered thunderstorms at 700 pm CDT on 05/13/2008. A cold front pushed into Arkansas from the Plains late on the 13th.
In the picture: The pattern will feature a cold front approaching Arkansas with scattered thunderstorms at 700 pm CDT on 05/13/2008.

 

Scattered thunderstorms popped up along and ahead of the front, with a few severe storms noted. There was nickel size hail reported at Ash Flat (Sharp County), and penny size hail at Hardy (Sharp County) and 8 miles north of Scott (Pulaski County).

 

Storms were most widespread from northern Texas into northern Louisiana and southern and western Arkansas, with heavy to excessive rain. The satellite showed scattered thunderstorms bubbling up in a very moist atmosphere (dewpoints in the 60s/70s) from northern Texas to northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas at 125 pm CDT on 05/10/2008.
In the picture: The satellite showed scattered thunderstorms bubbling up in a very moist atmosphere (dewpoints in the 60s/70s) from northern Texas to northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas at 125 pm CDT on 05/10/2008.

 

There were widespread two to four inch rainfall amounts in these areas (through 7 am CDT on the 14th), and locally more. For example, at Shreveport, LA...there was 8.70 inches of rain! Elsewhere, Texarkana (Miller County) had 2.25 inches, with 2.00 inches at Mena (Polk County), 1.79 inches at Millwood Dam (Hempstead County), 1.68 inches at Fordyce (Dallas County) and 1.58 inches at Monticello (Drew County).

 

The loop shows precipitable water values quickly increasing ahead of a storm system ("L") from 7 pm CDT on 05/12/2008 to 7 pm CDT on 05/14/2008. The front continued moving slowly into the state on the 14th before stalling. At the same time, a storm system approached from the southern Plains...and interacted with the front.
In the picture: The loop shows precipitable water (water vapor contained in a vertical column of the atmosphere) values quickly increasing ahead of a storm system ("L") from 7 pm CDT on 05/12/2008 to 7 pm CDT on 05/14/2008. Areas of rain developed around a stalled front in Arkansas.

 

 

There was a lot of moisture in place, with more showers and thunderstorms developing around the front on the 14th/15th.

 

Twenty four rainfall through 7 am CDT on the 15th included 4.60 inches at Eudora (Chicot County), 2.83 inches at Crossett (Ashley County), 2.51 inches at Felsenthal Lock and Dam (Union and Ashley Counties), 2.10 inches at Portland (Ashley County) and 1.81 inches at Kelso (Desha County). Twenty four hour rainfall amounts through 7 am CDT on 05/15/2008.
In the picture: Twenty four hour rainfall amounts through 7 am CDT on 05/15/2008.

 

A few showers lingered in southern and eastern Arkansas during the evening of the 15th before precipitation finally ended.

 

Storm Reports
Preliminary reports of severe weather in the Little Rock County Warning Area on May 13, 2008 (in red).
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There were isolated severe storms with large hail on May 13th. For a look at some reports, click here.
In the picture: Preliminary reports of severe weather in the Little Rock County Warning Area on May 13, 2008 (in red).
 

 

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