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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
600 AM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025

...Today's Topic for Flood Safety Awareness Week is National
Weather Service Water Resources...

The National Weather Service, in cooperation with the Arkansas 
Division of Emergency Management, has proclaimed the week of 
March 23rd through 29th as Flood Safety Awareness Week in Arkansas. 
Each day during the week will feature information about a 
different flood related topic.

...National Weather Service Water Resources...

The NWS homepage (www.weather.gov) provides up to date weather and 
water advisory, watch, and warning information for the U.S. and 
its territories. However, the NWS provides many additional resources
to help emergency managers, public officials, and private citizens 
make water decisions.

National Water Prediction Service (NWPS)
---------------------------------------------

The NWS has developed a new web interface for dissemination of its 
water prediction information. The new gateway, NWPS, is designed to 
make it easier for our partners and the public to access expanded 
river forecast information, observed water and precipitation data, 
and other resources, including flood inundation maps. An Application 
Programming Interface (API) capability is added to allow improved 
user access to core data sets. NWPS includes new tools such as 
dynamic real-time flood inundation mapping, greatly expanding the 
amount of information for making critical neighborhood scale water
decisions.

water.noaa.gov/wfo/LZK

Flood Inundation Mapping
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The FIM services provided by the NWS include three distinct products
provided in near-real-time, representing the analysis of the latest 
inundation extent and forecasts of maximum inundation over the 
subsequent five-day period. The National Water Model (NWM) will 
provide the discharge information from which the inundation extent 
will be derived for the analysis FIM and for one of the forecast FIM 
products. The NWS River Forecast Center (RFC) models will provide the 
discharge information for the other forecast FIM product. Inundation
extent is determined for each river or stream reach defined in the 
NWM river network, which is derived from the National Hydrography 
Dataset Plus (NHDPlus) for river and stream topology.

https://viewer.weather.noaa.gov/water

Weather Prediction Center (WPC) Precipitation Forecasts 
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WPC provides precipitation forecasts for the entire U.S. and issues 
excessive rainfall forecasts, short range discussions on heavy 
rainfall events, and snowfall and freezing rain probabilities. 

www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov

The Office of Water Prediction (OWP)
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The Office of Water Prediction (OWP) collaboratively researches, 
develops, and delivers state-of-the-science national hydrologic 
analyses, forecast information, data, decision-support services and 
guidance to support and inform essential emergency services and water
management decisions. In partnership with NWS national, regional, 
and local offices, the OWP coordinates, integrates and supports 
consistent water prediction activities from global to local levels.

https://www.weather.gov/owp

NWS River Forecast Centers (RFCs)
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The NWS has a network of thirteen River Forecast Centers (RFC) 
across the United States. These RFCs collect, process, and provide 
water resource and river forecasts and information for major river 
basins. 

https://water.noaa.gov/about/rfc
 
There are two RFCs that service Arkansas. These are the Lower 
Mississippi River Forecast Center and the Arkansas-Red Basin River 
Forecast Center. 

LMRFC covers the Lower Mississippi, White, Black, and Ouachita 
River Basins.

www.weather.gov/lmrfc/
  
ABRFC covers the lower Arkansas River and its tributaries.

www.weather.gov/abrfc/

&&

On this page, you will find information on what to do before, 
during, and after a flood. www.weather.gov/safety/flood

Staying aware of an evolving weather situation can help you prepare 
when flooding or other weather hazards impact your area. Be a Force 
of Nature! www.weather.gov/wrn/

To contact us, email Senior Service Hydrologist Tabitha Clarke at 
the National Weather Service in Little Rock. Her address is
tabitha.clarke@noaa.gov. 

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