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River Flood Warning 55, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 23, 2011Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at May 23, 2011, 8:47 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas. It took effect at May 29, 2011, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2011, 8:47 AM CDT (13:47 UTC)
In effect from: May 29, 2011, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 28, 2011, 9:45 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Calhoun County, AR, Ouachita County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Ouachita River at Camden (CAMA4).

Action stage: 25.5 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 36 ft
Major stage: 40 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07362000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 23, 6:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Sharp	37 min
May 22, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Sharp	44 min
May 22, 8:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Independence and 8 more	59 hr
May 22, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone, Marion	44 min
May 22, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	30 min
May 22, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	30 min
May 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion	3 hr
May 22, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	28 min
May 22, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	29 min
May 22, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	46 min
May 22, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	26 min
May 22, 10:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton, Searcy, Stone	48 min
May 22, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Sharp, Stone	53 min
May 22, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence, Sharp, Stone	45 min
May 22, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, White, Woodruff	23 min
May 22, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Sharp, Stone	47 min
May 23, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Woodruff	23 min
May 23, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	31 min
May 23, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter, Marion	45 min
May 23, 12:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Izard, Sharp	45 min
May 23, 8:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Union	15 days
May 23, 9:40 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Randolph	36 hr
May 23, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	37 min
May 23, 12:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	33 min
May 23, 1:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard	41 min
May 23, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	30 min
May 23, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Sharp	43 min
May 23, 3:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	19 hr
May 23, 3:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	19 hr
May 23, 3:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone	4 days
May 23, 3:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence	7 days
May 23, 3:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	19 hr
May 23, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	51 min
May 23, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	42 min
May 23, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion, Newton, Searcy	15 min
May 23, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	57 min
May 23, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	47 min
May 23, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	47 min
May 23, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope	47 min
May 23, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope, Searcy	46 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.