Alert archive / Arkansas / River Flood Warnings in 2016
River Flood Warning 71, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at Aug 20, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT for Clark County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It took effect at Aug 21, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 21, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2016, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Clark County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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 Ouachita River at Arkadelphia (AKDA4).
- Action stage
- 16 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 24 ft
- Major stage
- 27 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07360000, 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 20, 9:09 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 9:09 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 20, 10:15 AM CDT, 11 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1015 AM CDT SAT AUG 20 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211000- 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- 1015 AM CDT SAT AUG 20 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RAIN, SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT AS AN UPPER SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT MOVE INTO AND THROUGH THE STATE. THE MAIN AREA OF RAIN AND STORMS WILL BE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN LOW...BUT AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM MAY BE SEEN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW AN INCH FOR MOST AREAS...BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OF 1 TO 2 INCHES AND VERY ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS COULD BE SEEN WITH THE STRONG STORMS AND IF THEY SLOW IN THE FORWARD SPEED. THIS WOULD BRING THE THREAT OF FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING TO PARTS OF THE STATE. TONIGHT THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE MUCH OF THE RAIN TO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. SOME RIVER FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED AS A RESULT OF RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL. THE WHITE RIVER AT AUGUSTA AND CACHE RIVER AT PATTERSON WILL CONTINUE TO SEE FLOODING...WITH CRESTS AT AUGUSTA EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE MINOR FLOOD CATEGORY. THE CACHE RIVER MAY RISE TO THE MODERATE FLOOD CATEGORY BY SUNDAY. THE OUACHITA RIVER IS FORECAST TO REACH FLOOD STAGE AT THATCHER LOCK AND DAM THIS WEEKEND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY RAIN WILL STILL BE SEEN OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS IN THE MORNING, THEN DRIER WEATHER WILL GRADUALLY TAKE OVER ON SUNDAY AND INTO MONDAY AS DRIER AIR MOVES INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT. HOWEVER...RAIN CHANCES WILL RETURN TO THE FORECAST BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN LOW THROUGH THE REST OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED...BUT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING ARE REQUESTED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 62/59
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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.