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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
904 PM CST Sat Feb 15 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 1115 PM CST.

* At 904 PM CST, Dam operators reported the floodgates on the Remmel
  Dam had been opened resulting in flash flooding downstream on the
  Ouachita River.

  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...

Prairie Bayou, Blakely Creek, Stone Quarry Creek, Cove Creek,
DeLisle Creek, Tupelo Creek, Ouachita River, Tenmile Creek and
Chatman Creek.
A release of 31 thousand cubic feet per second from the dam will
continue.

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.

Turn around, don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

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

FLASH FLOOD...OBSERVED

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