Winter Weather — Howard, Arkansas

2024-01-21 to 2024-01-22 · Howard, Arkansas

Wider weather episode

A shortwave trough moving through southwest flow aloft arrived across the Middle River Valley late on January 21st into the 22nd, tapping into a moist tongue of eastern Pacific moisture atop a much colder air mass at the surface with ambient temperatures near the freezing mark. As the trough continued to eject northeast across Texas on the morning of January 22nd, it encountered this colder air with rain from earlier in the evening quickly transitioning to freezing rain as temperatures dropped during the overnight and early morning hours. This precipitation produced some ice accumulations from a light glaze to as much as a tenth of an inch across parts of extreme Southwest Arkansas, most notably on elevated surfaces like bridges and overpasses which resulted in some minor travel impacts.

The following are freezing rain/ice reports from a few locations in extreme Southwest Arkansas:

Howard County: Dierks: 0.1 inches.

Sevier County: De Queen: 0.1 inches.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1159033. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.