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…The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Arkansas… White River At Georgetown affecting Prairie, White and Woodruff Counties. White River At Des Arc affecting Prairie County. White River At Clarendon affecting Monroe and Arkansas Counties. White River At Augusta affecting Woodruff and White Counties. Cache River Near Patterson affecting Jackson and Woodruff Counties. For the Lower White River…including Newport, Augusta, Georgetown, Des Arc, Clarendon…Minor flooding is forecast. For the Cache River…including Patterson…Minor flooding is forecast. * WHAT…Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast. * WHERE…White River at Augusta. * WHEN…Until further notice. * IMPACTS…At 30.0 feet, Thousands of acres of farm ground flooded. County roads on both

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At 1122 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles northwest of Codman, or 11 miles northeast of Pampa, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD…Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE…Radar indicated. IMPACT…Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Locations impacted include… Codman, Lora, and Miami.

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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At 1108 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8 miles north of Pampa, moving east at 20 mph. HAZARD…Penny size hail. SOURCE…Radar indicated. IMPACT…Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include… Codman, Lora, and Miami.

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