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The National Weather Service's office in Shreveport, Louisiana, issued a flash flood emergency for the cities of Stamps and Buckner, as well as the "extreme northeast" parts of Lafayette County ...
YELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Flash flooding in Arkansas led to evacuations and water rescues Wednesday after a new wave of severe storms that have pummeled a vast swath of the U.S. and Canada, officials said. High winds, tornadoes and flooding have caused damage or deaths this week from the Plains to New England amid baking heat.
Buses and ambulances evacuated 86 people from a nursing home in Yellville, Arkansas, where water rose to about 4 feet (1.2 meters) during flash flooding, Marion County Sheriff Gregg Alexander said.
Another pocket of heavy rain is forecast to develop mostly in response to a nearby non-tropical storm over portions of Arkansas and Missouri, where localized flash flooding can also occur this ...
The first round of rainfall on May 18 produced widespread totals of 0.5–1 in (13–25 mm) across eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, raising the Arkansas River into flood stage. [5]: 23 With the threat of flood and a tornado outbreak looming, many events scheduled for the evening of May 20 were cancelled or rescheduled.
The May 2016 United States storm complex was a storm system that triggered a flood in the United States on May 31, 2016, affecting the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. The inundation set precipitation records in Texas [1] and Oklahoma. [2]
The flooding was the worst in Rhode Island history, as the Pawtuxet River crested over 69 feet—12 feet above flood stage, shattering the previous record by several feet. The rainstorm, which occurred during the cool, dry season, added 8.79" to an already rainy March.
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