[PBARC] Special Weather Statement

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
950 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-240500-
ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-
CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-
INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-
MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-
PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-
WOODRUFF-YELL-
950 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

..HEAVY RAINFALL REPORTED FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH
FRIDAY MORNING...

HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS GREATER THAN 6 INCHES...HAS
FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF ARKANSAS THROUGH THE 48 HOUR PERIOD ENDING
AT 7 AM FRIDAY MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH AND GREATER...
HAVE FALLEN BASICALLY NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER.

MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS OCCURED WEDNESDAY...WITH
AMOUNTS AVERAGING 1 TO 4 INCHES IN THE VICINITY OF THE ARKANSAS
RIVER. THIS SOUTHERN EXTENT IS ALONG A LINE FROM MENA...TO PINE
BLUFF...TO STUTTGART. BOTH CABOT IN LONOKE COUNTY...AND MORRILTON IN
CONWAY COUNTY...REPORTED 4.44 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN 24 HOURS. THIS
AREA...HOWEVER...DID NOT RECEIVE MUCH RAINFALL THURSDAY.

NORTHERN ARKANSAS SAW MUCH OF THEIR RAINFALL THURSDAY. THIS AREA
INCLUDES LOCATIONS NORTH OF A LINE FROM CLARKSVILLE...TO CLINTON...TO
NEWPORT. RAINFALL REPORTS AVERAGED 4 TO 5 INCHES. THE LARGEST
AMOUNT RECEIVED WAS 6.22 INCHES IN ST. PAUL IN MADISON COUNTY.
NUMEROUS FLASH FLOODING REPORTS WERE RECEIVED FROM JASPER IN NEWTON
COUNTY AND MARSHALL IN SEARCY COUNTY...AS WELL AS SEVERAL COUNTY
ROADS FLOODED IN MARION COUNTY.

AGAIN...THESE REPORTS WERE FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY
MORNING. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE RAINFALL RECEIVED IN NORTH ARKANSAS
THIS EVENING. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODED
ROADWAYS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN BATESVILLE IN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY...
AND ALSO IN SWIFTON IN JACKSON COUNTY. DUE TO THE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF
RAINFALL THAT HAVE FALLEN IN THE LAST 60 HOURS...GROUND CONDITIONS
ARE VERY MOIST. ANY MORE RAINFALL RECEIVED WILL EXASPERATE THE
SITUATION...WITH MORE FLOODING EXPECTED. MUCH OF NORTHERN AND NORTH
CENTRAL ARKANSAS IS UNDER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT
HOURS FOR THE RAINFALL EXPECTED TONIGHT. ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY
NIGHT...AND MORE FLOODING MAY OCCUR.

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73,
Glenn