There are a few scattered showers and thunderstorms across Arkansas. Here’s a couple of current high-res radar images. My complete forecast is coming up on my weather blog!

There are possible showers and thunderstorms that could affect Hot Springs overnight. Here’s a look at the current high-res radar, as well as a look at the 1 Hour FutureScan projection on radar. So far, there has not been any severe weather alerts issued for Arkansas, so the showers could possibly be moderate to heavy rain with some lightning and thunderstorms mixed in.

Welcome to Arkansas Severe Weather Updates! This is a weather blog by Nathan Parker, a WeatherTogether.net contributor and administrator. The blog is a companion blog to my main WeatherTogether blog. The differences between the two blogs is my main WeatherTogether blog hosts my weekly weather reports, whereas this blog hosts shorter severe weather updates I’ll post during a severe weather event.

I setup this blog as a replacement for my posting severe weather updates on social media platforms after I left social media. Moving to posting severe weather updates on a blog have the following advantages to using social media:

1. More Context: Whereas social media posts are limited in the amount of words one can post on social media, blog posts can include more words, content, and images, providing more context to severe weather updates.
2. Less Noise: Since social media is used for other news and general discussions, severe weather updates have the ability to become lost in a sea of “noise”. Moving to a blog format eliminates the “noise” and allows readers to focus solely on severe weather updates.
3. Targeted Audience: With the increase in “noise” on social media, the targeted audience who need to read the severe weather updates may not be able to easily view or read them. Moving to a blog format, complete with the ability to follow the blog via email or RSS, ensures the people who will most benefit from the severe weather updates will be able to view and read them.

The reason this blog has been setup to be separate from my main WeatherTogether blog (instead of merely using a “Severe Weather” category on my main blog) is to keep these posts separate from the main WeatherTogether.net need and not overfill the feed with multiple severe weather reports.

Coming soon, you’ll be able to follow the blog via email (or RSS if you have a feed reader) so you’ll be able to have severe weather updates from me served up directly to you.

A little about me. I served as a contributor for the WeatherBug Backyard Blog since 2005 and an administrator for the WeatherBug Community since 2008 until it was discontinued with the sale of the WeatherBug brand to GroundTruth. I also served as the President/CEO of Mallard Computer, Inc., and WeatherMallard, and an administrator of WeatherQuack.com until WeatherQuack merged under WeatherTogether. I also serve as an IT consultant for Earth Networks/AEM (WeatherBug’s former owner).

I joined WeatherTogether.net as a contributor and administrator, bringing my years of IT weather community experience to the team. I currently live in my hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas. I spent a few years covering severe weather events in the North Georgia Mountains before returning to Arkansas. I graduated with an M Div in Biblical Languages from Luther Rice College and seminary and am working toward a PhD in Systematic Theology from SWBTS. I am also a General-class HAM Radio operators under callsign N5PKR.

That wraps it up here! Nathan Parker signing off.