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River Flood Warning 120, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 9, 2008Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this river flood warning at Jul 9, 2008, 2:08 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2008, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2008, 8:39 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Flood severity: Minor

County Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Arkansas River near Muskogee (MKGO2). The gauge peaked at 28.15 ft at Jul 9, 2008, 2:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 27 ft
Minor stage: 28 ft
Moderate stage: 32 ft
Major stage: 34 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07194500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jul 9, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata	47 min
Jul 8, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	43 min
Jul 9, 6:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 6 more	59 min
Jul 9, 6:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	2 hr
Jul 9, 8:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, Mayes, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	2 hr
Jul 9, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	56 min
Jul 9, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	53 min
Jul 9, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	25 min
Jul 9, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	27 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.