Power Outage in Lawson, AR

A deep southwesterly flow aloft prevailed across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on January 30th-31st, ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system that drifted through Southern California, the Desert Southwest into Northern Mexico. Meanwhile, a strong but shallow arctic cold front shifted south through the Southern Plains on the January 29th-30th, before slowing significantly in the higher terrain of the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. Weak upper level disturbances embedded in this flow ahead of the low resulted in widespread sleet and freezing rain across much of the Southern Plains given the warm air above this shallow, freezing air mass, with areas of light freezing rain affecting portions of East Texas, extreme Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas on January 30th-February 2nd. Temperatures through the period ranged from a couple of degrees either side of the freezing mark across portions of Southwest Arkansas, with light ice accumulations ranging from a glaze up to 0.15 inches, mainly on elevated objects such as bridges and overpasses, trees and power lines. ||The following are freezing rain reports across various counties in Southwest Arkansas:||Sevier County: De Queen: 0.01 inches.|Howard County: Nashville: 0.01 inches.|Lafayette County: Lewisville: 0.10 inches.|Columbia County: Waldo: 0.15 inches.|Union County: El Dorado: 0.09 inches.

February 01, 2023

A large and amplifying upper trough dug south through the eastern two-thirds of the United States along and east of the Rockies on December 22nd, which ushered in the coldest temperatures for December in decades to much of the country leading up to the Christmas Day holiday weekend. This very cold arctic air mass moved into extreme Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and Northeast Texas during the morning hours of the 22nd, with temperatures falling sharply some 20-30+ degrees with the attendant cold frontal passage into the single digits by the morning hours of the 23rd. Very strong and gusty northwest winds of 35-45 mph were observed behind the front even through the morning of the 24th, producing a long duration of wind chill values ranging from 0 to as low as -9 degrees across South-central Arkansas from the evening of the 22nd to the morning of the 24th. While the temperatures associated with this arctic air mass were not quite record-breaking for this time of year, the long duration of subfreezing temperatures, which persisted nearly 2 days, resulted in multiple reports of freezing and bursting of water pipes, as well as sporadic power outages across these areas.||Here are the lowest wind chill values recorded across South-central Arkansas from December 22nd through the morning of the 24th:||Columbia County: Magnolia Ralph C Weiser Field Airport, -9 degrees|Union County: El Dorado Goodwin Field Airport, -8 degrees; Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, 0 degrees.

December 22, 2022

An upper low pressure system drifted north over Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas during the early morning hours of June 7th, with an upper level disturbance beneath the attendant trough enhancing an area of showers and thunderstorms over Southwest Arkansas. A moist and unstable air mass was in place, with weak steering also present which resulted in slow-moving storms producing locally heavy rainfall. Rainfall amounts of 3-5 inches fell from Southern Howard County across Northern Hempstead and Nevada Counties, which resulted in flash flooding over Northern Hempstead County where several roads were flooded and closed. ||Another complex of showers and thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours of June 7th across Northwest Texas, and shifted east-southeast across North Texas throughout the morning, ahead of another shortwave trough that ejected east beneath an upper low pressure system that had begun to lift north across Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. The air mass ahead of this complex of storms across the Ark-La-Tex warmed considerably throughout the day, resulting in moderately unstable conditions within a marginally sheared environment. Thus, the storms intensified as they entered East Texas and remained severe and they progressed east across Southern Arkansas and North Louisiana. Trees and power lines were downed throughout the path of these storms, with a tornado briefly touching down just west of Calion, AR in Northeast Union County from a storm that developed ahead of the main line of storms. These storms exited Southwest Arkansas during the late afternoon hours.

June 07, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Smackover.

April 12, 2020

A small complex of showers and thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours of June 22nd across Southwest Arkansas, along a weak surface front as a series of shortwave impulses traversed east across the southern half of Arkansas. The air mass was very moist and unstable along and just south of this surface front, with these storms having backbuilded south southwest into the more unstable air. As a result, these storms intensified and became severe, as they tracked southeast across Eastern Union County Arkansas and Northeast Union Parish Louisiana. Damaging winds downed numerous trees and snapped power poles near and just east of the Felsenthal community, with additional limbs downed in Huttig. These storms maintained their severe intensity as they moved southeast into Western Ashley County Arkansas and Morehouse Parish Louisiana.

June 22, 2018

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