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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR

1021 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2014



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LOGAN AR-POLK AR-SCOTT AR-

1021 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2014



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SCOTT...POLK AND WESTERN

LOGAN COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...



...THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR THE MENA AREA...



* AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

  SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FINALLY MOVING EAST OF THE     

  WARNED AREA...WITH PRECIPITATION ENDING. THE HEAVIEST RAIN FELL    

  FROM HARVEY TO Y CITY...ACORN...MENA AND HATFIELD. IN THESE        

  AREAS...TWO TO LOCALLY MORE THAN FOUR INCHES OF RAIN WAS           

  ESTIMATED. WHILE RAIN IS OVER...IT WILL TAKE AWHILE FOR HIGH WATER 

  TO RUNOFF.



  THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR THE MENA AREA.



  IN MENA...WHILE RAIN TAPERED OFF...AMOUNTS JUST OVER SEVEN 

  INCHES WERE MEASURED LOCALLY. FLOODING WAS STILL SERIOUS IN 

  AND AROUND TOWN. SOME ROADS WERE BARRICADED DUE TO HIGH WATER. 

  HIGHWAY 71 WAS CLOSED SOUTH OF TOWN. THERE WERE REPORTS OF 

  HIGH WATER RESCUES...AND HOMES AND BUSINESSES WERE SANDBAGGED 

  AS A PRECAUTION. WHILE THIS REMAINS A VERY DANGEROUS AND LIFE      

  THREATENING SITUATION...THERE WILL BE IMPROVEMENT IN THE NEXT

  FEW HOURS.  



* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...

  WALDRON...            MENA...               BOONEVILLE...

  WICKES...             VANDERVOORT...        SHADY...

  RATCLIFF...           QUEEN WILHELMINA STATE PARK...

  POLK COUNTY FAIRGNDS...                     OLIVER...

  MOUNTAIN FORK...      MORGAN SPRINGS...    

  MENA INTERMOUNTAIN AIRPORT...               MCCAULEY...

  MANSFIELD...          LAKE WILHELMINA...    LAKE MENA...

  LAKE HINKLE...



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 

RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. IF YOU 

ENCOUNTER WATER ACROSS A ROAD...DO THE RIGHT THING. TURN AROUND... 

DONT DROWN!



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LAT...LON 3494 9444 3497 9424 3507 9425 3511 9415

      3515 9414 3515 9404 3523 9404 3524 9393

      3533 9391 3532 9382 3542 9380 3542 9379

      3537 9374 3435 9413 3434 9425 3419 9425

      3419 9447



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