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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 9, 2020Perry County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this river flood warning at Jan 9, 2020, 7:55 PM CST for Perry County, Arkansas. It took effect at Jan 12, 2020, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 61 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 9, 2020, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2020, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 14, 2020, 6:49 PM CST
In force: 61 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Perry County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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 Fourche LaFave River near Houston (HUSA4).

Action stage: 24.5 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 32 ft
Major stage: 35 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07263115, 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 Jan 9, 7:38 PM CST, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 7:38 PM CST, 17 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
Jan 9, 7:54 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence	25 days
Jan 9, 7:54 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	47 hr
Jan 9, 8:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	45 min
Jan 10, 11:11 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence	70 hr
Jan 10, 11:14 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Saline	31 hr
Jan 10, 11:19 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	47 hr
Jan 10, 11:19 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	21 days
Jan 10, 11:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	26 hr
Jan 10, 11:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	45 hr
Jan 10, 11:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	16 days
Jan 10, 2:25 PM CST	Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe and 2 more	21 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.