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River Flood Warning 33, NWS Norman, OK

October 9, 2009Bryan County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this river flood warning at Oct 9, 2009, 9:17 AM CDT for Bryan County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 9, 2009, 4:26 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 9, 2009, 9:17 AM CDT (14:17 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 9, 2009, 4:26 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 10, 2009, 3:25 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Flood severity: Minor

County Bryan County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:21 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 Blue River (OK) near Blue (BLUO2). The gauge peaked at 24.09 ft at Oct 9, 2009, 6:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 26 ft
Minor stage: 28 ft
Moderate stage: 31 ft
Major stage: 43 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07332500, 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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Oct 8, 6:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 6:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	39 min
Oct 8, 8:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	17 hr
Oct 8, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc	49 min
Oct 8, 10:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Murray	3 hr
Oct 8, 11:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc, Seminole	6 hr
Oct 9, 12:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Murray	4 hr
Oct 9, 8:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	4 days
Oct 9, 2:52 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woods, Woodward	24 hr

Nearby

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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.