…The National Weather Service in Memphis TN has issued a Flood
Warning for the following rivers in Arkansas…Mississippi…
Mississippi River at Helena
For the Lower Mississippi River…including Helena…Minor flooding
is forecast.
* WHAT…Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE…Mississippi River at Helena.
* WHEN…From Sunday evening to Wednesday, April 23.
* IMPACTS…At 45.0 feet, In Mississippi, road to houses by the
river at Robson Towhead and the settlement by Old River Chute is
flooded. Settlement just east of Sunflower Cutoff is flooding.
Businesses on the south end of Slackwater Harbor are flooding.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…
– At 11:00 AM CDT Friday the stage was 41.4 feet.
– Forecast…The river is expected to rise above flood stage
Sunday evening to a crest of 45.0 feet early Thursday
morning. It will then begin to fall slowly.
– Flood stage is 44.0 feet.
– http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood