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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 30, 2016Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at Mar 30, 2016, 9:43 AM CDT for Saline County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 31, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 40 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2016, 9:43 AM CDT (14:43 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 31, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 1, 2016, 11:17 PM CDT
In force
40 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 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 Saline River at Benton (BTNA4). The gauge peaked at 12.28 ft at Mar 31, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
17 ft
Minor stage
18 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 07363000, 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 Mar 30, 5:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 5:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 5:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-311015-
BOONE-MARION-BAXTER-FULTON-SHARP-NEWTON-SEARCY-STONE-IZARD-
INDEPENDENCE-JOHNSON-POPE-VAN BUREN-CLEBURNE-JACKSON-LOGAN-CONWAY-
FAULKNER-WHITE-WOODRUFF-SCOTT-YELL-PERRY-POLK-MONTGOMERY-GARLAND-
SALINE-PULASKI-LONOKE-PRAIRIE-MONROE-PIKE-CLARK-HOT SPRING-GRANT-
JEFFERSON-ARKANSAS-DALLAS-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-DESHA-OUACHITA-CALHOUN-
BRADLEY-DREW-
500 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT
BRINGING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE STATE.
PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP OVER WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS
MORNING AND OVERSPREAD THE STATE BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT BEFORE PRECIPITATION
MOVES EAST OF THE STATE THURSDAY MORNING.

WIDESPREAD RAIN AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS SYSTEM WITH THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS OVER THE SOUTH. SLOW MOVING
THUNDERSTORMS COULD DROP HEAVY RAIN IN THIS AREA AND LOCALIZED FIVE
INCH RAIN AMOUNTS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN
EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTHERN ARKANSAS.

IN ADDITION TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. WHILE ANY PART OF THE STATE COULD
SEE SEVERE WEATHER...ONCE AGAIN THE SOUTH APPEARS TO HAVE THE BEST
CHANCE OF SEEING THE STRONGEST STORMS. ALL OF ARKANSAS IS IN A
SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER BUT AREAS SOUTH OF A MENA TO HOT
SPRINGS TO STUTTGART LINE WILL SEE AN ENHANCED THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AND
A TORNADO RISK ALSO EXISTS. WHILE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE
ANYWHERE ACROSS THE STATE TODAY...THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE EXPECTED
THIS EVENING AND DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS IN THE ENHANCED RISK
AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS EXIST IN THIS PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

&&

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
Mar 30, 9:42 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring69 hr
Mar 30, 9:42 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Ouachita6 days
Mar 30, 9:46 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, Lawrence9 days
Mar 30, 10:42 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKWhite50 hr
Mar 30, 10:52 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff17 days
Mar 30, 11:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJohnson42 min
Mar 30, 11:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLogan48 min
Mar 30, 11:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKStone39 min
Mar 30, 12:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDallas50 min
Mar 30, 12:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPulaski48 min
Mar 30, 12:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKHot Spring40 min
Mar 30, 12:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPulaski48 min
Mar 30, 1:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKConway45 min
Mar 30, 1:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleburne49 min
Mar 30, 2:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPulaski, Saline3 hr
Mar 30, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLonoke, White48 min
Mar 30, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott13 min
Mar 30, 3:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski3 hr
Mar 30, 4:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Stone, Van Buren3 hr
Mar 30, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDallas, Ouachita46 min
Mar 30, 5:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline3 hr
Mar 30, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline40 min
Mar 30, 5:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike6 hr
Mar 30, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita29 min
Mar 30, 5:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski, Saline3 hr
Mar 30, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring26 min
Mar 30, 5:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lonoke and 4 more3 hr
Mar 30, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski, Saline12 min
Mar 30, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKDallas, Grant36 min
Mar 30, 6:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJackson48 min
Mar 30, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleveland, Jefferson42 min
Mar 30, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline49 min
Mar 30, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, Prairie, White, Woodruff6 hr
Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDrew37 min
Mar 30, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson49 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2016Every river flood warning in 2016

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.