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River Flood Warning 49, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 20, 2013Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at Dec 20, 2013, 2:57 PM CST for Yell County, Arkansas. It took effect at Dec 21, 2013, 11:50 AM CST. It was in force for 56 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 20, 2013, 2:57 PM CST (20:57 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 21, 2013, 11:50 AM CST
Expired
Dec 23, 2013, 7:45 PM CST
In force
56 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Flood severity
Minor

County Yell County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Petit Jean River at Danville (DANA4). The gauge peaked at 21.57 ft at Dec 22, 2013, 9:00 PM CST.

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Action stage
20 ft
Minor stage
20 ft
Moderate stage
24 ft
Major stage
26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07260500, 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 Dec 20, 11:41 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 20, 11:41 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 20, 11:30 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1130 AM CST FRI DEC 20 2013

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211100-
ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-
CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-
INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-
MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-
PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-
WOODRUFF-YELL-
1130 AM CST FRI DEC 20 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE STATE...BECOMING NEARLY
STATIONARY OVER WEST CENTRAL TO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS BY MORNING. WITH
AMPLE MOISTURE IN PLACE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. BY TONIGHT...A STRONGER
UPPER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER ARKANSAS ALONG THE STALLED FRONT
AND DEVELOP MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAIN IS
EXPECTED TONIGHT AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT STARTING AT
MIDNIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST TWO THIRDS OF THE AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
FROM TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING WILL BE RANGE FROM A HALF INCH TO
WELL OVER ONE INCH. SOME SPOTS COULD SEE UPWARDS OF 2 INCHES BY
AROUND SUNRISE ON SATURDAY.

ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS EVENING
INTO TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...WHILE
AN ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT CAN NOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE OVER ARKANSAS ON SATURDAY AND
AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ALONG IT...NUMEROUS
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...RESULTING IN AREAS OF HEAVY
RAINFALL.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE
STORM SYSTEM EXITS THE REGION LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY
MORNING. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL BE ACROSS THE
NORTHWEST TWO THIRDS OF THE STATE...OR ALONG AND IN VICINITY OF A
LINE FROM MENA...TO HOT SPRINGS...TO CONWAY...TO BATESVILLE. SOME
LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS AROUND 5 INCHES COULD BE SEEN IN THIS
REGION. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL CONTINUE FOR THE
NORTHWEST TWO THIRDS OF THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. LESSER
RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE
AREA...BUT 1 TO AS MUCH AS 3 INCHES COULD STILL BE SEEN.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO
THE EVENING HOURS. THE BEST CHANCES OF SEEING SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE
ALONG AND SOUTH OF A TEXARKANA TO SHERIDAN TO NEWPORT LINE WHERE A
MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER LIES. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
WEATHER EXTENDS ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A FORT SMITH TO ASH FLAT LINE. THE
PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...BUT THERE WILL
ALSO BE A THREAT FOR TORNADOES.

THIS SYSTEM WILL EXIT THE REGION LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO
SUNDAY...WITH MOST PRECIPITATION ENDING BY SUNDAY MORNING. AT
THIS TIME...IT APPEARS SUBFREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN TO THE
NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA AND LITTLE IF ANY WINTER PRECIPITATION
IS EXPECTED. IF ANY WINTRY PRECIPITATION WERE TO OCCUR...THIS WILL
BE PRIMARILY OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS ON SUNDAY. LITTLE OR NO
ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...AND AGAIN ON
SATURDAY.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND
CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 20, 9:36 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLZKRandolph16 days
Dec 20, 9:36 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, Lawrence5 days
Dec 20, 9:49 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLZKWhite, Woodruff6 days
Dec 20, 2:36 PM CSTLake Wind AdvisoryLZKArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 17 more25 hr
Dec 20, 2:59 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningLZKPerry30 hr
Dec 20, 5:31 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGrant29 min

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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.