Trick-or-treaters should enjoy a Halloween that’s as dry as a bone after rain moves out of the county Friday afternoon, Jim Burns, director of the Clark County Office of Emergency Management, said.
Though forecasters Thursday predicted flash floods and heavy thunderstorms for the area, Clark County received “much, much less than what was predicted,” Burns said. “We came out good.” He said the front that swept across the state “stalled out” just east of Clark County. The southeast and eastern parts of the county, near Dalark and Vaden, received most of Thursday night’s rain, he said, while Dallas County east to Arkansas County “got the heaviest brunt of the rain” in the state. “We barely got two inches, except for the east side of the county.”
The Ouachita River should not pose a threat for Arkadelphia or its surrounding communities, Burns said, as there was a lack of rainfall in the river’s water shed to the west of the county.
There was no weather-related damage reported in the county.
Saturday is expected to be sunny, with temperatures in the 60s. No rain is forecasted for next week.

Tornadoes reported in Arkansas

Storms that passed through Arkansas on Thursday brought heavy rainfall and at least two tornadoes, but there were no reports of injuries.
The National Weather Service said flash flooding was likely as a major storm dumps more rain on areas already soaked by weeks of record-setting precipitation. Forecasters say 5 to 7 inches of rain is expected in parts of central and southern Arkansas through late Friday, with the heaviest rain on a line from Salem to Little Rock to Camden. Areas east and west of that boundary should see 3 to 5 inches of rain.
Thursday afternoon, the weather service issued tornado warnings for Miller, Lafayette, Union, Calhoun, Ouachita, Grant, Cleveland, Jefferson and Dallas counties in south Arkansas and for Pulaski and Lonoke counties in the state’s central section. Shortly before 4 p.m., the weather service said a tornado was reported in East Camden, with several trees blown down. Damage was reported to buildings at the Arkansas Fire Academy in East Camden.
Also, the Ouachita County sheriff’s office told Little Rock television station KATV that at least one tornado had struck in southern parts of the county, in the Louann-Frenchport area.
Meanwhile, the main line of storms entered the state from Oklahoma during the early evening hours and passed across western and central Arkansas. The severity of the storms appeared to diminish through the evening, though heavy rain fell in many areas.
The weather service reported that trees were felled by wind at Y City and Waldron in Scott County, and Mena city streets were flooded in Polk County. City streets were flooded and trees and power lines downed at Clarksville, the agency said, and Arkansas 10 was covered with water between Booneville and Magazine in Logan County.
In central Arkansas, flooding was reported at Jacksonville, and the Cabot Fire Department helped residents of two flooded subdivisions get out of their homes, the Weather Service said.
At Magnolia in Columbia County, 3.1 inches of rain fell between noon and 4 p.m., according to Mike McNeill, editor of the Banner-News daily newspaper. He said that brought the total for October so far to 26.49 inches.
Elsewhere, water was reported covering parts of Arkansas 229 and Arkansas 8 in southeast Dallas County.
Entergy Arkansas said about 1,000 of its customers were without power in the Fordyce-Smackover area.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)