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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 20, 2018Clark County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at Feb 20, 2018, 9:31 AM CST for Clark County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 21, 2018, 5:12 PM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 20, 2018, 9:31 AM CST (15:31 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 21, 2018, 5:12 PM CST
Expired: Feb 26, 2018, 4:23 AM CST
In force: 4 days
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 15:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Feb 20, 5:48 AM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 5:48 AM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 20, 9:31 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	28 days
Feb 20, 9:31 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Union	71 days
Feb 20, 9:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Nevada, Ouachita	6 days
Feb 20, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Saline	5 days
Feb 20, 9:46 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Perry	15 days
Feb 20, 11:27 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LZK	White, Woodruff	36 hr
Feb 20, 5:53 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	37 min

Nearby

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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.