Flash Flood Warning in Little Rock - 11/21/11
Channel: SevereWeatherLiker3
Date: 2011-11-21

WXJ55 Little Rock, AR
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
215 PM CST MON NOV 21 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOT SPRING COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 210 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE       
  CONTINUING TO MONITOR RELEASES FROM REMMEL DAM...DUE TO THE        
  HEAVY RAINFALL THAT FELL ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. 

* THIS IS A ROUTINE HIGH WATER EVENT WHICH WILL RESULT IN LOWLAND    
  FLOODING ALONG THE OUACHITA RIVER IN HOT SPRING COUNTY. THE        
  CURRENT FLOW RATE FROM REMMEL DAM AT 2 PM IS 45 THOUSAND CUBIC    
  FEET PER SECOND. INITIAL IMPACTS FROM REMMEL DAM RELEASES WILL     
  REACH THE BRIDGE ON INTERSTATE 30 NEAR MALVERN WITHIN 1 TO 2       
  HOURS...WITH MAXIMUM IMPACTS OCCURRING WITHIN THE NEXT 2 TO 3      
  HOURS. INITIAL IMPACTS WILL REACH DONALDSON WITHIN THE NEXT 3 TO 6 
  HOURS...WITH THE MAXIMUM IMPACTS OCCURRING WITHIN THE NEXT 6 TO 8  
  HOURS. IMPACTS WILL REACH FRIENDSHIP IN ABOUT 10 TO 12 HOURS.      
  LIVESTOCK AND PROPERTY SHOULD BE MOVED OUT OF THE FLOODPLAIN.      
  FLOODED ROADWAYS SHOULD BE AVOIDED. 


* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO AREAS      
  ALONG THE OUACHITA RIVER NEAR OAK GROVE...MIDWAY...FRIENDSHIP AND  
  JONES MILL.