Parker said the single-digit weather made it difficult to pre-treat highways with rock salt or brine before the snow started this week. Other low temperatures this week include minus-15 at Clarksville and minus-14 at Mena, Cavanaugh said. The first snowfall of the week was accompanied by low temperatures, setting an apparent record low of minus-20 at Fayetteville's Drake Field, where weather records have been kept since 1949. Record snowfall for the month of February in North Little Rock is 15.6 inches. That was before the week's second winter storm Wednesday, when 6-8 inches of snow was forecast to fall on a large swath of Central Arkansas. Everybody's out trying to help somebody right now."Ĭavanaugh said the weather service measured 10.6 inches of snow Tuesday at its office in North Little Rock. It's hard to verify because it's hard to get a hold of somebody. "They're probably getting snowfall rates of 2 inches per hour. "It's pretty intensely ongoing right now," Cavanaugh said early Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday, Dennis Cavanaugh, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in North Little Rock, said he didn't have totals for the two snowstorms because the second one was still underway, with heavy snow falling south of Little Rock, stretching from Pine Bluff to Arkadelphia. 70, where workers had already plowed snow from the pavement, Parker said.Īfter an ice storm last week, two winter storms moved through Arkansas this week, the first Monday and the second Wednesday, blanketing the state in a foot of snow and plummeting temperatures to well below zero. Then a tractor-trailer rig stalled in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 near Galloway, so the Department of Transportation was routing all eastbound traffic off the interstate onto U.S. Parker said he didn't know if the tractor-trailer rigs had crashed or slid off the road, just that they were involved. "Then we had incidents on I-40 eastbound. Then we had a couple of smaller accidents on I-40 behind it. First, we had five or six cars collide, and there was a tractor trailer involved near Lonoke, on the westbound side. "We've had 22 accidents today, statewide," Parker said Wednesday afternoon. to 2 p.m., it was whiteout-type conditions," said Dave Parker, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Transportation.
#SNOW ON THE BLUFF TRAILER DRIVER#
Neither Lewis nor the truck driver was seriously injured. Chuck Lewis' patrol car, spinning it into a tree line on the north side of the interstate, according to a news release from state police.
#SNOW ON THE BLUFF TRAILER DRIVERS#
Heavy snowfall blinded motorists Wednesday as vehicles crashed in a slow chain reaction on an icy Interstate 40 near Lonoke.Īrkansas State Police said the accidents were spread over a 30-mile stretch, and involved a state trooper who was parked along the westbound I-40 lanes with blue lights flashing trying to warn drivers to slow down because there was a wreck ahead.Īn 18-wheeler jackknifed, hitting Sgt.
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