This weather system can reach its peak intensity this afternoon into the evening. it'll solely get stronger and canopy a bigger space over consequent twelve to eighteen hours,” he said. In Arkansas, forecasters foreseen winds of up to eighty miles per hour (129 klick per hour) and potential tornadoes throughout the state on Tues night. The National Weather Service created a special unleash of weather balloons in Arkansas on Tues thanks to the threat. a robust line of storms, as well as potential tornadoes, had left quite eleven,000 customers while not power in Arkansas by Tues night. sturdy winds hewn trees and lightning strikes might have started fires in Monticello, a city of nine,500 in southeast Arkansas, per a police dispatcher. The National Weather Service reportable 2 potential tornadoes in Missouri and Arkansas, tho' neither had apparently caused any important injury. The tornado threat was the most recent development in a very turbulent weather pattern. many cities set records for heat on Monday and a number of additional record high temperatures were expected on Tues, though there have been additional clouds overhead to moderate temperature, Bunting aforesaid.