Flash Flood, Miller
- When
- December 15, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Miller County, Texarkana
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 33.312, -93.892 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Numerous roads closed and flooded throughout town.
Flash Flood in Arkansas, December 15, 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 15, 1:35 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 1:35 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 135 PM CST SAT DEC 15 2001 QUITE A WET SHORT TERM ALREADY INTO PLAY. MOISTURE IN ABUNDANCE IN THE LOWER AND MID LEVELS WILL KEEP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA FOR TONIGHT AND THROUGH SUN NT. WARM FRONT SHOULD PUSH NWD TONIGHT. MIN TEMPERATURES FOR THE MOST PART WILL BE IN THE EVENING WITH NEARLY STEADY TO SLOWLY RISING TEMPERATURES DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WILL GO WITH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES FOR TONIGHT AND SUN AS CONTINUING RAIN EVENT WILL ANTAGONIZE AN ALREADY SOGGY SITUATION. MANY RIVERS IN CWFA ALREADY HAVE FLOOD WARNINGS FOR THEM. WILL BE MONITORING AREA CLOSELY AS RAIN TOTALS CONTINUE TO RISE. FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH FROM NW TO SE DURING SUN NT. LOOKS LIKE SOME OVERRUNNING CLOUDS MON MORNING THEN CLEARING BY AFTERNOON. EXTENDED LOOKS DRY FOR TUE-THU. ON THU...CLOUDS BEGIN TO FILTER BACK INTO THE REGION. FRI AND SAT LOOKS FOR RAIN CHANCES TO REENTER THE FORECAST AS ANOTHER SYSTEM DRAWS NEAR. 20 PRELIMS... SHV 056/069 049/057 037 ++70 MLU 057/072 051/059 037 7+71 TXK 050/062 045/055 038 ++61 TYR 054/065 044/056 038 ++60 LFK 062/073 046/058 036 ++60 .SHV...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES TONIGHT AND SUNDAY.
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
- High Wind in Washington, December 15 to 16, 2001
- High Wind in California, December 15, 2001
- Flooding in Indiana, December 15 to 23, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 15 to 17, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Washington, December 15 to 17, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, December 15 to 16, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 15 to 17, 2001
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, December 15 to 16, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 15 to 17, 2001
- High Wind in Montana, December 15, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 15, 2001
- High Wind in Nevada, December 15, 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: 5275106.