Flash Flood in Arkansas, December 16, 2001

Name: Flash Flood in Arkansas, December 16, 2001
Start: 2001-12-16T22:55
End: 2001-12-16T22:55
Location: Arkansas

December 16, 2001 · NWS SHV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 16, 9:30 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 9:30 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
930 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

FINALLY...LIGHT AT THE END OF THE DAY...AS CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE
CURRENTLY TRACKING ACROSS CWA...CENTERED JUST NORTH OF SHREVEPORT.
FRONT EXTENDS FROM LOW TO AROUND LUFKIN AND ON TO THE TEXAS COAST
NEAR GALVESTON. STILL A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS AS THE LINE
TRACKS ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...BUT
SHOULD BE EAST OF AREA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME FLASH FLOODING
ALSO POSSIBLE...AS SOME STORMS PRODUCING UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR.
WILL NOT MAKE ANY BIG CHANGES TO ZONES...BUT WILL LIKELY DROP ALL
MENTION OF SEVERE WEATHER IN TEXAS ZONES. ALLOWING FLOOD WATCH TO
STAND IN COUNTIES IT WAS ISSUED FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AS FLOODING
IS ONGOING. UPDATE WILL BE OUT SHORTLY BEFORE 10 PM.

.SHV...FLOOD WATCH...NORTHWEST OF A MAGNOLIA AR...RUSK TX LINE
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>072-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-
149-150

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 16, 5:00 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 PM CDT SUN DEC 16 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    JUDSON                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
12/16/01   GREGG                          TREES DOWN AND ROOF
                                          DAMAGE. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

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Local storm report, Dec 16, 7:40 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
740 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0605 PM    QUITMAN                   TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   WOOD                           WATER COVERS HWY 37 IN QUITMAN
                                          MANY FM ROADS UNDERWATER
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0615 PM    MOUNT VERNON              TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   FRANKLIN                       2 FEET OF WATER STANDING ON
                                          HWY 37 S NEAR MOUNT VERNON
                                          ROAD IMPASSABLE
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0620 PM    BOGOTA                    TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   RED RIVER                      HWYS 909, 1487 CLOSED NEAR
                                          BOGOTA DUE TO HIGH WATER
                                          HWY 410 NEAR KANAWHA ALSO FLOODED
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0625 PM    IDABEL                    OK   FLOODING
12/16/01   MCCURTAIN                      HWY 37 WEST OF IDABEL IS FLOODED
                                          MANY FM ROADS STILL UNDERWATER
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0705 PM    1 S ASHDOWN               AR   FLOODING
12/16/01   LITTLE RIVER                   HWY 71 SOUTH OF ASHDOWN HAS
                                          1-1.5 FEET OF WATER STANDING OVER
                                          ROADWAY MANY COUNTY ROADS FLOODED
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0725 PM    LONGVIEW                  TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   GREGG                          INTERSECTION OF HARLEY RIDGE AND
                                          PINE TREE RD IS FLOODED
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

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Local storm report, Dec 16, 9:50 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
950 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    TEXARKANA                 TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   BOWIE                          INTERSECTION OF 40TH AND
                                          POTOMAC IS FLOODED HIGH
                                          WATER COVERS 4200 BLOCK OF
                                          NEW BOSTON ROAD CARS
                                          STALLED ON HIGHWAY 67 5 W
                                          OF TEXARKANA NEAR THE DUCK
                                          HAVEN MOBILE HOME PARK
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0910 PM    TEXARKANA                 AR   FLOODING
12/16/01   MILLER                         INTERSECTIONS OF JEFFERSON
                                          AND ARKANSAS BLVD, HAYES
                                          AND JACKSON, AND 9TH AND
                                          BROAD ARE FLOODED CARS
                                          HAVE STALLED ACROSS MUCH OF THE
                                          CITY DUE TO HIGH WATER
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0910 PM    LEWISVILLE                AR   FLOODING
12/16/01   LAFAYETTE                      US 29 IN LEWISVILLE IS
                                          FLOODED US 82 NEAR BUCKNER
                                          ALSO FLOODED
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0915 PM    MOUNT PLEASANT            TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   TITUS                          FM 127 NEAR MOUNT PLEASANT IS
                                          CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER COUNTY
                                          ROADS SE 15, SE 9, NE 8, AND 4540
                                          ARE FLOODED AS WELL
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0935 PM    CARTHAGE                  TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   PANOLA                         HWY 79, 315, AND 149 NEAR
                                          CARTHAGE ARE FLOODED
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

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The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Columbia

When: December 16, 10:55 PM CST
Where: Columbia County, 3 mi W of Waldo
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.214, -93.227 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Numerous roads were flooded and closed to traffic.

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

Every storm in Arkansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5275102.