FLASH FLOOD WATCH
Warning Issue Date: 321 PM CST WED DEC 23 2009
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS...EASTERN
ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...
SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND WESTERN ARKANSAS...INCLUDING THE
FOLLOWING AREAS...IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS...CONWAY...FAULKNER...
GARLAND...GRANT...LONOKE...PERRY...POPE...PRAIRIE...PULASKI...
SALINE...WHITE AND YELL. IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...JACKSON...
MONROE AND WOODRUFF. IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...BAXTER...
BOONE...CLEBURNE...FULTON...INDEPENDENCE...IZARD...MARION...
NEWTON...SEARCY...SHARP...STONE AND VAN BUREN. IN SOUTHEAST
ARKANSAS...ARKANSAS...BRADLEY...CLEVELAND...DESHA...DREW...
JEFFERSON AND LINCOLN. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...CALHOUN...
CLARK...DALLAS...HOT SPRING...OUACHITA AND PIKE. IN WESTERN
ARKANSAS...JOHNSON...LOGAN...MONTGOMERY...POLK AND SCOTT.
* FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING
* RAIN WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES...MAINLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND
THURSDAY MORNING. WIDESPREAD TWO TO THREE INCH AMOUNTS ARE
EXPECTED...WITH LOCALLY MORE. THIS MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN
SOME AREAS.
* VEGETATION HAS BECOME MOSTLY DORMANT...AND WILL NOT USE NEARLY
AS MUCH WATER AS DURING THE GROWING SEASON. GIVEN THIS... RAIN
WILL NOT GO INTO THE SOIL AS READILY...WITH HIGH WATER PROBLEMS
BECOMING MORE OF A CONCERN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO
TAKE ACTION IF FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.
$$
46
|
|
|
