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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR

833 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2014



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LOGAN AR-POLK AR-SCOTT AR-

833 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 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED   

  TO SHOW SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH AREAS OF HEAVY    

  RAIN BUILDING INTO THE WARNED AREA FROM SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND     

  NORTHEAST TEXAS. TWO TO MORE THAN FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN  

  SO FAR. 



  THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR THE MENA AREA.



  IN MENA...3.57 INCHES OF RAIN WAS MEASURED BETWEEN 600 PM AND 800  

  PM CDT...WITH CLOSE TO SIX INCHES OF RAIN SINCE RAIN BEGAN. 

  ROADS IN AND AROUND TOWN WERE UNDER WATER...AND SOME               

  ROADS WERE BEING BARRICADED. HIGHWAY 71 WAS CLOSED SOUTH OF 

  TOWN. SEVERAL HIGH WATER RESCUES WERE NECESSARY. HOMES AND 

  BUSINESSES WERE BEING SANDBAGGED AS A PRECAUTION. CREEKS AND SMALL 

  STREAMS WERE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL

  AGGRAVATE AN ALREADY VERY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING

  SITUATION. 



* 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! IF YOU ARE ALONG A FLOODED CREEK OR STREAM...AND CAN GET 

TO HIGHER GROUND SAFELY...YOU SHOULD DO SO IMMEDIATELY. 



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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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