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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 19, 2009Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this river flood warning at Apr 19, 2009, 3:31 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 20, 2009, 3:51 PM CDT. It was in force for 52 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 2009, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 20, 2009, 3:51 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 22, 2009, 7:53 PM CDT
In force
52 hr
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Flood severity
Minor

County Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 Neosho River near Commerce (COMO2).

Action stage
14 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
18 ft
Major stage
24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07185000, 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 Apr 19, 3:09 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 3:09 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 1:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 11:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 7:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPittsburg40 min
Apr 18, 7:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAAdair119 min
Apr 18, 7:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPittsburg46 min
Apr 18, 7:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee73 min
Apr 18, 7:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkmulgee52 min
Apr 18, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee54 min
Apr 18, 8:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPittsburg47 min
Apr 18, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner55 min
Apr 18, 8:50 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningTSACherokee4 hr
Apr 18, 8:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw50 min
Apr 18, 8:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee64 min
Apr 18, 8:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPushmataha48 min
Apr 18, 9:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer48 min
Apr 18, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 1 more59 min
Apr 18, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more65 min
Apr 18, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner61 min
Apr 18, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer43 min
Apr 18, 9:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPushmataha46 min
Apr 18, 10:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore64 min
Apr 18, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner47 min
Apr 18, 10:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMcIntosh, Okmulgee43 min
Apr 18, 10:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware66 min
Apr 18, 10:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACherokee65 min
Apr 18, 10:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers61 min
Apr 18, 10:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee, Wagoner51 min
Apr 18, 11:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg68 min
Apr 19, 12:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah39 min
Apr 19, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah51 min
Apr 19, 1:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, Pittsburg40 min
Apr 19, 1:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah39 min
Apr 19, 2:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer39 min
Apr 19, 2:43 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSALatimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg2 hr
Apr 18, 10:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford50 min
Apr 19, 12:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton52 min
Apr 19, 1:39 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASebastian51 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 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.