Cache River Flows, Stream Forecast, Patterson AR Gauge PTTA4

Flood Impacts
16.0	WATER IN LOCATIONS NOT IMAGINED ALL OVER CRAIGHEAD...JACKSON...AND WOODRUFF COUNTIES. EXTENSIVE SANDBAGGING AND EVACUATIONS REQUIRED. MANY HWYS AND COUNTY ROADS CLOSED. NEARLY SOLID SHEET OF WATER FROM THE WHITE RIVER LEVEES ACROSS TO HIGH GROUND NEAR HWY 49. VILLAGE CREEK...CACHE RIVER...BAYOU DEVIEW APPEAR AS ONE RIVER. HISTORIC CREST OF APRIL 1927
13.0	LEVEE PROTECTING MANY ACRES OF CROPLANDS AND A FEW HOMES MAY BE OVERTOPPED NEAR THE REMMEL COMMUNITY SOUTH OF HWY 14. HWY 37 NEAR GRUBBS OVERTOPPED AS ADJACENT LEVEES ARE OVERTOPPED. HOMES IN PATTERSON MAY BE FLOODED. WATER MAY BE ON HWYS 260 NEAR GRAYS...STATE HWY 33 BETWEEN GREGORY AND LITTLE DIXIE...AND STATE HWY 38 BETWEEN DIXIE AND COTTON PLANT.
12.5	MAJOR PROBLEMS IN GRUBBS...PATTERSON...DIXIE...AND AMAGON IN JACKSON AND WOODRUFF COUNTIES. LEVEES MAY BE BREACHED IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS. WOODRUFF COUNTY ROAD 775 FLOODED. HWYS 18...37...33...AND 38 AFFECTED IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN WOODRUFF AND JACKSON COUNTIES. HIGHEST STAGE IN OVER 60 YEARS OCCURRED IN DECEMBER 2001 WITH A CREST OF 12.7 FEET. RIVER REACHED 12.5 FEET IN JANUARY 1991.
12.0	WATER UP TO THE FOUNDATIONS OF HOMES ON SW PINE STREET IN PATTERSON. CABINS AND CAMPS ALONG STATE HWY 14...18...AND 33 FLOODED. HWY 37 NEAR GRUBBS MAY BE PARTIALLY FLOODED. WATER MAY BE ON HWY 33 BETWEEN GREGORY AND LITTLE DIXIE. MOST UNPROTECTED FARMLANDS FLOODED AND SOME LEVEES OVERTOPPED.
11.0	WATER NEAR THE FOUNDATIONS OF HOMES ON SW PINE STREET IN PATTERSON. WATER DEEP OVER WOODRUFF COUNTY ROAD 775. WATER AROUND CAMPS ALONG HWYS 14 AND 18 IN JACKSON COUNTY. MANY ACRES OF CROPLAND...PASTURES...AND TIMBERLAND FLOODED IN CRAIGHEAD...JACKSON...AND WOODRUFF COUNTIES.
10.5	WATER DEEP OVER WOODRUFF COUNTY ROAD 775 NORTH OF HWY 260. WATER IS ENCROACHING ON YARDS OF HOMES ON SW PINE STREET IN PATTERSON. MANY ACRES OF CROPLAND...PASTURES...AND TIMBER FLOODED IN JACKSON AND WOODRUFF COUNTIES.
10.0	PASTURELAND AND CROPLAND NOT PROTECTED BY LEVEES IN JACKSON AND WOODRUFF COUNTIES AFFECTED. WATER IS DEEP ALONG THE SHOULDERS OF HWY 18 NEAR GRUBBS. WATER OVER PORTIONS OF WOODRUFF COUNTY ROAD 775 NORTH OF STATE HWY 260. WATER IS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO YARDS OF A COUPLE OF HOMES ON PINE STREET IN PATTERSON.
8.0	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 ITS TRIBUTARIES.