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Storms Help Prevent Early June Droughts in US

(June 13) -- Hurricanes, tornadoes and flash floods might be the most dramatic of weather disasters, striking with an instant and unmatched fury. However, it's often a slow and creeping weather problem that is more costly in the long-run: the drought. Droughts are more common from the summer into the fall than during the...

Arkansas Campers Had Only Seconds to Escape From Flood

OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST (June 12) -- Some people awoke to roaring floodwaters. Others were roused by panicked banging on their cabin doors. At least a few got out of bed and were plunged almost immediately into deep, churning water. Vacationing families camped in a remote Arkansas valley had only a moment or two in the...

Dozens Still Missing After Deadly Arkansas Floods

(June 12) -- A frantic search is underway in Arkansas this morning for nearly two dozen people feared dead after torrential rains turned their idyllic campsites on the Caddo and Little Missouri rivers into a flood zone. One survivor said raging waters carried away babies in a flash. At least 18 people were killed in the...

Background on arkansas flood

The June 2010 Arkansas floods were flash floods that killed at least 20 people near Langley, Arkansas, United States, in the early morning of June 11, 2010. Heavy, localized rainfall from six to eight inches (150–200 mm) flooded the Little Missouri and Caddo rivers, sweeping through campsites in the Ouachita National Forest.

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