Alert archive / Arkansas / River Flood Warnings in 2016

River Flood Warning 73, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 3, 2016Jackson County, Woodruff County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at Dec 3, 2016, 9:45 PM CST for Jackson County, Woodruff County, Arkansas. It took effect at Dec 4, 2016, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 3, 2016, 9:45 PM CST (03:45 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 4, 2016, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 8, 2016, 9:18 AM CST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Jackson County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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 Cache River at Patterson (PTTA4). The gauge peaked at 9.71 ft at Dec 5, 2016, 6:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 11 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07077500, 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 3, 5:18 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 5:18 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 3, 5:00 AM CST, 16 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CST SAT DEC 3 2016

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-041100-
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 CST SAT DEC 3 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

UNSETTLED WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST HEADING INTO THE NEW WORK
WEEK. RAIN CHANCES WILL BRIEFLY DIMINISH OVER ARKANSAS LATER SUNDAY
AND SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE FIRST STORM SYSTEM DEPARTS THE AREA.

A NEW STORM SYSTEM SYSTEM WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF WET WEATHER TO
THE STATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. IT APPEARS THAT THE CHANCES OF
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN MINIMAL AS THE SURFACE LOW IS
FORECAST TO PASS SOUTH AND EAST OF ARKANSAS.

BY LATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO SWEEP
THROUGH THE STATE. SOME OF THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL FOLLOW
AS ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES INTO THE MID SOUTH.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK.

44

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2016 Every 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.