Dierks News

Law Enforcement in Sevier County, Arkansas is reporting hail the size of golf balls along the Saline River along the border of Sevier and Howard Counties around 3 AM Thursday Morning.

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 132 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL HEMPSTEAD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES ...

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 613 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL RED RIVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS... CENTRAL MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN ...

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Five Arkansas Air National Guard Airmen restored clean water to the Dierks community April 21 following an April 9 tornado that destroyed the town's water treatment plant April 9. The Airmen from the 188th Fighter Wing's Civil Engineer Squadron helped the small Southwest Arkansas town by using two water treatment units, known as reverse osmosis ...

Technical Sgt. William Kendrick turns on the main valve to begin moving water through a water purification unit the Arkansas Air National Guard deployed to the small Southwest Arkansas community of Dierks on Tuesday.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is to visit Arkansas to announce government grants to cover repairs from tornadoes, floods and severe storms that cut through the state last year.

What a week it has been for the city of Dierks. The population is about 1,200. City officials have come up with different ways to provide water to residents, but they must conserve and it will be at least two to three months before things are completely back to normal.

A team of five Arkansas Air National Guard airmen from the 188th Civil Engineering Squadron restored clean water yesterday to this small southwestern Arkansas community following an April 9 tornado that destroyed the town's water treatment plant.

The City of Dierks, Ark., is living the proverb 'You don't miss the water till the well runs dry.' Residents have rearranged their habits to get by with the limited water flow into Dierks after a Thursday tornado knocked out the water treatment plant 4 miles west of town.

Severe weather that pounded the state last week also spawned a tornado near Dierks, knocking out the town's water treatment plant.

Dierks, Ark., is still without a water system after Thursday's tornado activity.

Schools in Dierks, AR will be closed today. A possible tornado has damaged the city's water plant and there is no water at the school.

Howard County is one of three Arkansas counties declared disaster areas by Governor Beebe on Friday.

A tornado hit Mena as a line of severe storms pushed through the state. AT 8:11 p.m., local law enforcement authorities in Polk County reported a tornado doing damage in the city of Mena, according to the National Weather Service in Little Rock.

As the weather gets warmer, more people are tending to their lawns, while others are taking trips to visit historic community gardens in their hometowns.

Nashville, Ark., is the fourth Southwest Arkansas town to implement a city ordinance banning pit bulldogs.

Icy roads played a role in an early Tuesday morning fatality in Sevier County. Arkansas State Police say 23-year-old Brian Stapp of Dierks was on Highway 71 just south of Lockesburg when his pickup hit an ...

An icy bridge contributed to a one-vehicle rollover that killed a Dierks, Ark., man early Tuesday morning on U.S. Highway 71 south of Lockesburg, Ark.

Arkansas State Police report two deaths in this morning's string of accidents on icy roadways.