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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
907 PM CST Thu Jan 30 2025

The National Weather Service in Little Rock has extended the

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  A Dam Floodgate Release in...
  Eastern Hot Spring County in southwestern Arkansas...

* Until 100 AM CST.

* At 907 PM CST, dam operators reported the floodgates on the Remmel
  Dam were opened causing flash flooding downstream on the Ouachita
  River. The flow rate has been reduced to 38,000 cubic feet per
  second.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding from a dam floodgate release.

  SOURCE...Dam operator.

  IMPACT...Flooding of areas along the river immediately
           downstream of the dam.

* The nearest downstream town is Jones Mill, Friendship, Midway, and
  Oak Grove.

  This is a routine high water event which will result in lowland
  flooding along the Ouachita River in Hot Spring County.

  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.

This includes the following streams and drainages...
  Stone Quarry Creek, Chatman Creek, Tenmile Creek, Cove Creek,
  DeLisle Creek, Ouachita River, Blakely Creek, Tupelo Creek and
  Prairie Bayou.
Flooding is occurring along the Ouachita River.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If you are in low lying areas below the Remmel Dam you should move
to higher ground immediately.

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LAT...LON 3423 9293 3420 9298 3422 9300 3430 9293
      3435 9291 3439 9285 3442 9287 3443 9287
      3443 9289 3444 9289 3444 9285 3438 9282
      3433 9285

FLASH FLOOD...OBSERVED

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