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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR

115 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM FOR A LARGE 

PART OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES 

OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS UNTIL 400 AM... MONROE...ARKANSAS...JEFFERSON 

...LINCOLN...DALLAS...DESHA...CLEVELAND...OUACHITA...CALHOUN...DREW 

AND BRADLEY.



AT 115 AM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND 

THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED FROM 

BRINKLEY TO CAMDEN AND POINTS SOUTH. HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE 

SAME AREA FOR THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS AND HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY TO 

PERSIST. THE RAIN AREA IS NEARLY STATIONARY AND DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS 

AS MUCH AS 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER NORTHERN BRADLEY AND 

SOUTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTIES. AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 

ELSEWHERE WITH SEVERAL MORE INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE TONIGHT.



MANY REPORTS OF WATER COVERING ROADS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS 

HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THIS PROBLEM WILL ONLY WORSEN AS THE RAIN 

CONTINUES TO FALL. EVEN AFTER THE RAIN HAS ENDED...FLASH FLOODING 

WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE AS WATER DRAINS AND STREAMS AND CREEKS RISE IN 

RESPONSE. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF YOU ENCOUNTER WATER ACROSS THE ROAD...TURN 

AROUND AND GO THE OTHER WAY. DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER 

COVERS THE ROAD THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TO GREAT FOR SAFE PASSAGE. 

IT ONLY TAKES ABOUT TWO FEET OF MOVING WATER TO CARRY A CAR 

DOWNSTREAM.



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