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Severe Weather on July 12-13, 2007 (Pg1) |
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Well above normal rainfall was noted to start July, 2007.
Through the first 11 days of the month, portions of central and southern
Arkansas received over 600 percent of normal precipitation! That trend
continued into the 12th...with a large cluster of showers and
thunderstorms, or MCS (Mesoscale Convective System), arriving from
Oklahoma. |
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Percent of normal rainfall in July, 2007 (through the 11th). |
| Rainfall
in July, 2007 (through the 11th) |
| Eudora (SE AR) |
10.28 |
1.20 |
857 |
| North Little Rock (C
AR) |
6.63 |
1.05 |
631 |
| Morrilton (C AR) |
6.18 |
1.08 |
572 |
| Hope (SW AR) |
5.95 |
1.35 |
441 |
| DeQueen (SW AR) |
5.85 |
1.49 |
393 |
| Camden (SC AR) |
5.84 |
1.42 |
411 |
| Texarkana (SW AR) |
5.53 |
1.41 |
392 |
| Warren (SC AR) |
4.99 |
1.40 |
356 |
| Mena (WC AR) |
4.75 |
1.79 |
265 |
| Marianna (EC AR) |
4.58 |
1.35 |
339 |
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| In the picture: An
MCS (Mesoscale Convective System or large cluster of
thunderstorms) approached western Arkansas at 1130 am CDT on
07/12/2007. |
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| In the picture: By
230 pm CDT, the MCS interacted with a stationary front across
southern Arkansas...with the front becoming active. |
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| The MCS moved into Arkansas during the
afternoon hours, and interacted with a front draped across southern
Arkansas. The front became active, with scattered thunderstorms bubbling
up and isolated severe weather (mainly damaging winds) and flash
flooding reported. In Arkadelphia (Clark County), one storm downed
trees on at least eight homes on the north side of town. |
| Along and just north of the front, a bow echo formed near
Waldron (Scott County) in western Arkansas and moved quickly to the east
toward Perryville (Perry County) and Little Rock (Pulaski County). A bow
echo (backwards "C" shaped line of storms) is notorious for
producing strong to damaging winds. In this case, there were several reports of trees and power lines downed. Farther north, widespread rain
with embedded thunderstorms occurred in the northern counties. |
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| In the picture:
The WSR-88D (Doppler Weather Radar) showed widespread
precipitation across the southwest half of Arkansas during the afternoon
of 07/12/2007. |
| Widespread one half to one and a half inch rainfall
amounts were reported in about the southwest half of Arkansas...with
locally over two inches. Twenty four hour rainfall through 7 am CDT on
the 13th included 2.71 inches at Eudora (Chicot County), 2.61 inches at
Helena (Phillips County), 2.15 inches at Arkansas City (Desha County),
2.15 inches at Monticello (Drew County), 2.09 inches at Portland (Ashley
County) and 2.09 inches at Booneville (Logan County). |
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| There is more concerning the storms of
July 12th-13th. To check out the rest of the
story, click here. |
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