Subject: Significant Weather Event (posted 6-6-08)

05 Jun 08

1500 hrs - 2400 hrs: Rain starts 1500 hrs. Storms off and on until 2400 hrs. Some really heavy downpours. Wind tops at 33 mph. Precip total at 2400 hrs 2.31". Lot's of lightning and thunder. No hail.

06 Jun 08

0001 hrs - 0700 hrs: .09" rain. 0700 hrs, lot's of dark clouds but no rain. Little Rock Lake up an inch or so. Local creeks little raise at this time. It takes a few hours for the run off from the fields to reach this location. I suspect creeks will raise some. We have a lot of sand soil. Most of the water here soaks in as fast as it comes down.

CORRECTION:

0830 06 JUN 08 - Zuleger creek (gets runoff from the northern part of Benton County) is at the top of its bank. Up about two feet. Sorry I did not make a visual before I wrote the event.

Jim Hovda

Rice Weather Reporter.

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Reporting period 0700 - 0700 hrs. 1.61" rainfall.

11 Jun:

0900 hrs - Lt rain starts then gets heavy. By 1200 hrs .77" had fallen. More storms rolled thru the area and by 1500 hrs another .45" had fallen. Rain slackened and at 2400 hrs only another .38" had fallen for a total rainfall on 11 Jun of 1.60" 1700 hrs Zuleger Creek had risen only slightly. Top wind gust was 24 mph. No hail.

12 Jun: 0001 - 0700 hrs.

Only mist. Precip totalled only .01". Total rainfall for my reporting period totalled 1.61". Zuleger Creek now about one foot below the top of its bank and brown with runoff. There is standing water in some yards.

The larger of our two creeks at the north end of Little Rock Lake, Little Rock Creek is more difficult to visually measure.

Precipitation for the month stands at 4.69".

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