Alert archive / Arkansas / River Flood Warnings in 2009
River Flood Warning 27, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this river flood warning at May 13, 2009, 9:02 PM CDT for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It took effect at May 14, 2009, 8:31 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2009, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 14, 2009, 8:31 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 17, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 at Van Buren (VBUA4).
- Action stage
- 22 ft
- Minor stage
- 22 ft
- Moderate stage
- 26 ft
- Major stage
- 31 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07250500, 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, 8:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 8:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 5:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 511 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2009 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-141000- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 511 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2009 ...SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN... THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT. TORNADO RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...EARLY EVENING. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...SIGNIFICANT. AREA...ALL EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...EARLY EVENING. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...ALL EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. FLASH FLOOD. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA.... ONSET...EARLY EVENING. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...ALL EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. HEAVY RAIN. RISK...SIGNIFICANT. AREA...ALL EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...EARLY EVENING. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...ALL EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SIGNIFICANT WINDS. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO FAVOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE REGION ALONG AND AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT EARLY THIS EVENING. A CAPPING INVERSION HAS ALLOWED STRONG INSTABILITY TO BUILD SOUTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. HOWEVER... THE CAP HAS SUFFICIENTLY WEAKENED AS EXPECTED... ALLOWING STORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT. THE INITIAL STAGES OF CONVECTION WILL FAVOR SUPERCELLS WITH TORNADIC POTENTIAL AND VERY LARGE HAIL. THE STRONGEST WIND FIELDS WILL REMAIN WELL NORTH OF THE REGION WHICH IS LIKELY TO LEAD TO STORMS ORGANIZING ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND PUSHING SOUTHWARD AS THEIR COMBINED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY STRENGTHENS. THIS SCENARIO WILL LIMIT THE TORNADIC POTENTIAL WITH TIME. ALTHOUGH THE STRONG INSTABILITY WILL MAINTAIN THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT HAIL AND OUTFLOW WINDS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STORM INITIATION WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND EXPECTED TO STALL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL PROVIDE A ZONE FOR REPEATED STORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE REGION... WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT... WITH A FLOOD WATCH FOR SEVERAL RIVERS ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS. MONDAY...NO HAZARDS. TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND... WITH YET ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE LATE FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. SHOULD THIS HEAVY RAIN DEVELOP... THEN BOTH FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING WILL BE A CONCERN OVER THE WEEKEND. THE WEATHER PATTERN LOOKS TO CHANGE BY EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH POTENTIAL FOR A DRY PERIOD ACROSS THE AREA. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 13, 8:16 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
816 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2009
OKZ056-057-140200-
CRAIG OK-NOWATA OK-
816 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2009
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHWESTERN CRAIG AND NOWATA
AT 816 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES
EAST OF LENAPAH...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...NOWATA...DELAWARE...LENAPAH...
CENTRALIA...HOLLOW...PYRAMID CORNERS AND CENTRAILIA.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3699 9508 3669 9515 3668 9579 3700 9558
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 268DEG 29KT 3686 9552The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 53 min |
| May 13, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 57 min |
| May 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 64 min |
| May 13, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 44 min |
| May 13, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 66 min |
| May 13, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 81 min |
| May 13, 9:10 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Muskogee | 3 hr |
| May 13, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 52 min |
| May 13, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 45 min |
| May 13, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 44 min |
| May 13, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Tulsa, Wagoner | 55 min |
| May 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Rogers, Tulsa | 30 min |
| May 13, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 24 min |
| May 13, 10:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 54 min |
| May 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 53 min |
| May 13, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers and 1 more | 61 min |
| May 13, 10:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 112 min |
| May 13, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 49 min |
| May 13, 10:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 2 hr |
| May 13, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 58 min |
| May 13, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 67 min |
| May 13, 11:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Creek, Tulsa, Wagoner | 2 hr |
| May 13, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee and 2 more | 59 min |
| May 14, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 56 min |
| May 14, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 1 more | 81 min |
| May 14, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 62 min |
| May 14, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 71 min |
| May 14, 1:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 92 min |
| May 14, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 75 min |
| May 14, 8:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 29 min |
| May 13, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 35 min |
| May 13, 10:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 23 min |
| May 13, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 55 min |
| May 13, 11:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton, Carroll | 113 min |
| May 13, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison, Washington | 63 min |
| May 14, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 30 min |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2009Every 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.