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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 13, 2009Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this river flood warning at May 13, 2009, 2:38 PM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 14, 2009, 6:32 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2009, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
In effect from: May 14, 2009, 6:32 AM CDT
Expired: May 14, 2009, 2:34 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Flood severity: Minor

County Creek County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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 Polecat Creek near Sapulpa (SPCO2).

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 21 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07165508, 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 May 13, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 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
May 13, 1:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	36 min
May 13, 1:59 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more	13 hr
May 13, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	114 min
May 13, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	51 min
May 13, 9:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	TSA	Creek	5 hr
May 13, 9:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	TSA	Adair	23 hr
May 13, 9:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	TSA	Muskogee	5 hr
May 13, 9:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	TSA	LeFlore	4 days
May 13, 9:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	TSA	Pushmataha	29 hr
May 13, 10:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more	21 hr
May 13, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee	12 hr
May 13, 9:57 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	11 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.