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River Flood Warning 67, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at Aug 15, 2016, 9:28 AM CDT for Saline County, Arkansas. It took effect at Aug 15, 2016, 10:36 AM CDT. It was in force for 38 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2016, 9:28 AM CDT (14:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 15, 2016, 10:36 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 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 14:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 19.53 ft at Aug 15, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT.
- 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 Aug 15, 6:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 6:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 5:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161000- 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 MON AUG 15 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT GOOD CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL CONTINUE TODAY...AND THERE MAY BE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO. RAIN WILL TEND TO SHIFT INTO THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF ARKANSAS TONIGHT...WITH SOME DRYING FARTHER NORTHWEST. RAINFALL THROUGH TONIGHT WILL AVERAGE A HALF INCH TO AN INCH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN COUNTIES...WITH A TENTH TO A HALF INCH IN THE NORTH AND WEST. ANY FLASH FLOODING SHOULD BE LOCALIZED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SHOWERS WILL REMAIN LIKELY IN THE UPCOMING WEEK...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE AS THE PATTERN REMAINS UNSETTLED. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE IN PLACES...AND DATA IS SUGGESTING THE BULK OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL SHIFT INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. RAIN WILL BE SPREAD OUT OVER SEVERAL DAYS...SO WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOOD ISSUES ARE NOT EXPECTED. RIVERS WILL BE ON THE RISE ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION...AND WATER LEVELS WILL LIKELY EXCEED FLOOD STAGES ON SOME TRIBUTARIES. THE ELEVEN POINT...SPRING...AND BLACK RIVERS WILL BE AFFECTED INITIALLY...BUT OTHER RIVERS SUCH AS THE LOWER WHITE AND CACHE WILL EXPERIENCE RISES AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES. A FEW STORMS WITH STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE...BUT ANY SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE ISOLATED AT MOST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 46
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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.