Heavy rains brought the Ouachita River at Camden back above flood stage for just one day.
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Heavy rains brought the Ouachita River at Camden back above flood stage for just one 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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 23, 5:25 PM CST, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 525 PM CST SAT JAN 23 2016 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. HIGH CLOUDS WILL STREAM ACROSS THE STATE. LIGHT NORTHEAST/EAST WINDS WILL BECOME SOUTHEAST AFTER SUNRISE. MAY HAVE SOME STRONGER GUSTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN SITES DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 159 PM CST SAT JAN 23 2016/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES NORTHEAST ALONG THE EAST COAST TONIGHT AN UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER THE PLAINS. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL MOVE INTO THE EASTERN U.S. BY SUNDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER UPPER TROUGH DROPS SOUTH OUT OF CANADA. WITH SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER ARKANSAS...THE SHORT TERM WILL REMAIN DRY. THE HIGH MOVES EAST OF THE STATE ON SUNDAY. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 20S. HIGHS SUNDAY WILL BE WARMER IN THE LOWER 40S TO MID 50S. LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A PROGRESSIVE...LONG WAVE TROUGH WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH THE MID SOUTH EARLY IN THIS PERIOD. SCATTERED LIGHT PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED...AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST ALL PRECIPITATION WILL BE THAT OF LIQUID PHASE. UPPER FLOW ACROSS THE U.S. IS THEN EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE ZONAL BY THE END OF THE PERIOD...WITH DRY CONDITIONS...AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES TO PREVAIL. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 650 PM CST SAT JAN 23 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-241100- BOONE-MARION-BAXTER-FULTON-SHARP-NEWTON-SEARCY-STONE-IZARD- INDEPENDENCE-JOHNSON-POPE-VAN BUREN-CLEBURNE-JACKSON-LOGAN-CONWAY- FAULKNER-WHITE-WOODRUFF-SCOTT-YELL-PERRY-POLK-MONTGOMERY-GARLAND- SALINE-PULASKI-LONOKE-PRAIRIE-MONROE-PIKE-CLARK-HOT SPRING-GRANT- JEFFERSON-ARKANSAS-DALLAS-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-DESHA-OUACHITA- CALHOUN-BRADLEY-DREW- 650 PM CST SAT JAN 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT TEMPERATURES ROSE ABOVE FREEZING THIS AFTERNOON...ALLOWING MELTING OF SNOW IN LOCATIONS WHERE WINTER PRECIPITATION WAS RECEIVED. AFTER SUNSET...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL QUICKLY BACK BELOW FREEZING...WITH ANY MOISTURE LEFT ON THE ROADWAYS REFREEZING. ROADS WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS DUE TO THE BLACK ICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL REMAIN LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 62/44/55/58
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain brought the Ouachita River at Camden above flood stage on January 24th then went below flood stage on the 25th.
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