| Flood Impacts |
| 38.0 | FEMA 500 YEAR FLOODPLAIN AT NEWPORT DETERMINED TO BE AT 37.8 FEET. |
| 36.0 | FEMA 100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN DETERMINED TO BE 36.6 FEET AT NEWPORT. STAGE OF 35.9 FEET EXPERIENCED APRIL 1945, PRIOR TO THE COMPLETION OF FLOOD CONTROL RESERVOIRS UPSTREAM. |
| 35.0 | HWY 367 WEST OF NEWPORT FLOODS. |
| 34.0 | AREAS INUNDATED WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE DECEMBER 1982 FLOOD WHEN A CREST OF 34.4 FEET OCCURRED. RAILROAD BRIDGE DOWNSTREAM OF NEWPORT OVERTOPPED. SERIOUS FLOODING IN JACKSONPORT AND NEWPORT. HOMES ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 14 ARE FLOODED. VILLAGE CREEK MAY BE BACKING WATER INTO PORTIONS OF NEWPORT. THE DECEMBER 1982 FLOOD WAS THE HIGHEST SINCE COMPLETION OF BULL SHOALS DAM IN 1951. STATE HIGHWAYS 14 37 69 122 367 AND 384 MAY ALL BE AFFECTED. |
| 31.0 | PATROLLING OF NEWPORT...JACKSONPORT...AND VILLAGE CREEK LEVEES BEGINS. HOMES AND BUSINESSES INSIDE LEVEE AT NEWPORT FLOODED. STATE HIGHWAYS 14 37 69 367 AND 384 MAY ALL BE IMPACTED BY FLOODING WITH THE LOWER LYING HIGHWAYS CLOSED. LAST TIME THE RIVER STAGE WAS NEAR THIS LEVEL WAS WHEN THE STAGE CRESTED AT 30.4 FEET IN FEBRUARY 1989. THE LAST TIME THE RIVER EXCEEDED THIS STAGE WAS IN DECEMBER 1982 WHEN THE CREST WAS 34.4 FEET. |
| 30.0 | SERIOUS FLOOD PROBLEMS IN JACKSON AND INDEPENDENCE COUNTIES. FLOODING EXTENDS ACROSS ENTIRE WHITE RIVER VALLEY DOWNSTREAM OF NEWPORT. STATE HIGHWAYS 14 37 69 AND 384 IN THE VICINITY OF NEWPORT MAY ALL BE AFFECTED BY FLOODING. VILLAGE CREEK MAY BE BACKING INTO PORTIONS OF NEWPORT. HOMES AND BUSINESSES WITHIN THE NEWPORT FLOODWALL COULD BE FLOODED WITH WATER NEAR THE BASE OF THE FLOODWALL. THE RIVER WAS LAST ABOVE 30 FEET WHEN THE CREST OF 30.4 FEET OCCURRED IN FEBRUARY 1989 |
| 28.0 | BATEMAN LEVEE IS CLOSE TO BEING OVERTOPPED. HWY 14 EAST OF NEWPORT AT VILLAGE CREEK COULD BE FLOODED BY BACKWATER. HIGHWAY 14 WEST OF NEWPORT IS FLOODED. STATE HIGHWAY 69 IN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY MAY BE FLOODED. FLOODING UP VILLAGE CREEK EXTENDS TO EASTERN PORTION OF NEWPORT. EXTENSIVE FLOODING OF CROPLAND IN JACKSON AND INDEPENDENCE COUNTY ALONG THE WHITE AND LOWER BLACK RIVERS. RIVER CRESTED SLIGHTLY ABOVE 28 FEET IN DECEMBER 2001 AND MARCH 2002. |
| 27.0 | HWY 14 BETWEEN NEWPORT AND OIL TROUGH AND HWY 122 TO NEWARK AFFECTED. POSSIBLE STRUCTURAL FLOODING ALONG HWY 14 IN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. BATEMAN LEVEE PATROLLING BEGINS. |
| 26.0 | MANY THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF CROPLAND ARE INUNDATED. WATER IS NEAR STATE HIGHWAY 14. MANY PRIVATE LEVEES ARE OVERTOPPED ALLOWING THE RIVER TO FLOOD CROPLAND. WATER IN PORTIONS OF JACKSONPORT STATE PARK THAT ARE ON RIVER SIDE OF LEVEE. |
| 21.0 | CORPS REGULATION STAGE DURING THE WINTER MONTHS FOR BULL SHOALS AND NORFORK RESERVOIR RELEASES. |
