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9/30/2025 9:43:00 AM (UTC)Urgency: ImmediateSeverity: SevereCertainty: Observed
9/30/2025 9:43:00 AM until 10/1/2025 9:45:00 AM
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
River forecasts are based on current conditions and rainfall
forecasted to occur over the next 24 hours. During periods of
flooding...Evening forecasts are reissued with updated rainfall
forecasts.
Observed and forecasted stage data plots are available on our
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service web page at...
www.weather.gov/lzk
Under the Current Conditions section...Select River and Lakes AHPS.
The next statement will be issued Wednesday morning at 945 AM CDT.
The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in
Arkansas...
Cache River Near Patterson affecting Woodruff and Jackson
Counties.
For the Cache River...including Patterson...Minor flooding is
forecast.
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Cache River near Patterson.
* WHEN...From Wednesday afternoon to Friday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 9.0 feet, Low swampy timberland along the river
begins to flood. Flood gates should be closed and equipment moved
out of the low grounds along the river and tributaries.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 9:15 AM CDT Tuesday the stage was 7.7 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 9.0
feet early Wednesday afternoon. It will then fall below flood
stage on Thursday.
- Flood stage is 9.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood