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River Flood Warning 71, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 20, 2016Clark County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas

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.

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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 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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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.

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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.