Winter Storm — Sevier, Arkansas

2011-02-03 to 2011-02-04 · Sevier, Arkansas

Event narrative

A head on collision between 2 vehicles occurred approximately 5 miles north of Dequeen, Arkansas on a snow covered roadway. The collision resulted in one indirect fatality and one indirect injury.

Wider weather episode

A cold arctic airmass was in place across the four state region the night of February 3rd as a strong upper level storm system moved quickly out of the southern Great Basin and into the West Texas Hill Country. A large area of precipitation, mostly in the form of snow, developed across Central Texas during the late night hours of February 3rd and moved quickly northeast into Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours of February 4th. Accumulating snow was the result across much of the area with a mixture of sleet and freezing rain across portions of East Central Texas and Central Louisiana. The system exited the region late in the afternoon of February 4th. The following are snow reports across Southwest Arkansas: Little River County: 4 inches, Sevier County: 4.5 inches, Howard County: 4.5 inches, Miller County: 6.5 inches, Hempstead County: 4 inches, Lafayette County: 5 inches, Nevada County: 3 inches, Columbia County: 3 inches, Union County: 2.5 inches.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 276368. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.