Flash Flood, Union
- When
- December 12, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, El Dorado
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.171, -92.597 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
South Jackson Road south of town was closed due to high water.
Flash Flood in Arkansas, December 12, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 12, 2:05 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 12, 2:05 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 205 PM CST WED DEC 12 2001 WARM FRONT HAS SLOWED ITS NORTHWARD MOVEMENT THIS AFTERNOON... KEEPING THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE CWA IN THE COOL SECTOR. HOWEVER MOST OF THE PRECIP HAS SHIFTED TO THE EAST AND NORTH...AND CONVECTION DEVELOPING AHEAD OF COLD FRONT IS SCATTERED AT BEST. WILL CONTINUE WITH CHANCE POPS TONIGHT AHEAD OF FRONT...AND SINCE FRONT STALLS IN EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA AFTER MIDNIGHT...THIS AREA WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS. WILL ADJUST NGM MOS NUMBERS UP SOME IN EAST ZONES ...GOING MORE IN LINE WITH MESO ETA TIMING. UPPER TROF STILL WELL TO WEST OF CWA AND IT WILL NOT CLEAR CWA UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT. FRIDAY LOOKS LIKE A DRY DAY...BUT WINDS WILL SHIFT BACK TO SOUTHERLY FRIDAY NIGHT IN ADVANCE OF NEXT SHORT WAVE...WITH RAIN SPREADING BACK INTO FORECAST AREA SATURDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS SYSTEM STRONGER THAN PREVIOUS RUNS INDICATED...DIGS DEEPER...SO LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT RAIN EVENT SHAPING UP. THIS SYSTEM SHOULD BE EAST OF AREA ON MONDAY WITH FAIR WEATHER INTO MIDWEEK. SHV 049/060 038/059 4210 MLU 056/064 040/058 6410 TXK 046/058 038/056 3210 TYR 045/055 037/059 3210 LFK 050/061 038/060 4210 .SHV...NONE. 14
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 12, 3:32 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
332 PM CST WED DEC 12 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1200 PM MANY LA FLOODING
12/12/01 SABINE MINOR STREET FLOODING.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
1200 PM COUSHATTA LA FLOODING
12/12/01 RED RIVER SEVERAL PARISH ROADS
CLOSED DUE TO WATER.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
1230 PM FARMERVILLE LA FLOODING
12/12/01 UNION SEVERAL PARISH ROADS
CLOSED. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
1230 PM ARCADIA LA FLOODING
12/12/01 BIENVILLE MINOR ROAD FLOODING
THROUGHOUT PARISH.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.Local storm report, Dec 12, 3:45 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
345 PM CST WED DEC 12 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1200 PM RUSTON LA FLOODING
12/12/01 LINCOLN SEVERAL PARISH ROADS
CLOSED. WATER IN LOW LYING
RESTAURANT NEAR I 20.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
1230 PM CLAY LA FLOODING
12/12/01 JACKSON MINOR FLOODING ON HWY 167.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
1255 PM WEST MONROE LA FLOODING
12/12/01 OUACHITA MINOR STREET FLOODING.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGER.
0115 PM STERLINGTON LA FLOODING
12/12/01 OUACHITA MINOR FLOODING ON HWY 165
NEAR HWY 2...1 MILE SOUTH
OF STERLINGTON. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.Local storm report, Dec 12, 4:50 PM CST, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
450 PM CST WED DEC 12 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
445 PM RUSTON LA FLOODING
12/12/01 LINCOLN U.S. HWY 167 CLOSED SOUTH
OF RUSTON. TRAFFIC BEING
REROUTED. REPORT FROM
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
445 PM JONESBORO LA FLOODING
12/12/01 JACKSON U.S. HWY 167 CLOSED NORTH
OF JONESBORO. TRAFFIC BEING
REROUTED. REPORT FROM
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hurricane in Guam, December 12 to 20, 2001
- Avalanche in Alaska, December 12, 2001
- Tornadoes in Texas, December 12, 2001
- Tornado in Louisiana, December 12, 2001
- Tornado in Louisiana, December 12, 2001
- Blizzard in Oregon, December 12 to 13, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 12 to 14, 2001
- Flooding in Tennessee, December 12, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, December 12 to 14, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 12 to 14, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Washington, December 12 to 13, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Louisiana, December 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, December 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5275099.