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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 1, 2019LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this river flood warning at May 1, 2019, 2:51 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 1, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 2019, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
In effect from: May 1, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 2, 2019, 1:57 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 Poteau River near Poteau (PTAO2).

Action stage: 24 ft
Minor stage: 24 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07249000, 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 1, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 1, 1:53 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
153 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0215 PM     TORNADO          3 WNW SKIATOOK          36.38N 96.05W
04/30/2019                   OSAGE              OK   PUBLIC

            MULTIPLE VIDEOS OF A TORNADO WEST OF SKIATOOK AND NORTH
            OF HIGHWAY 20 SEEN VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. TIME AND LOCATION
            ESTIMATED VIA RADAR.

0920 AM     TSTM WND DMG     MIAMI                   36.87N 94.88W
05/01/2019                   OTTAWA             OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED IN
            MIAMI DUE TO FLOODING. THERE WERE SEVERAL WATER RESCUES
            AS WELL. THERE WAS TREE DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.

1020 AM     TSTM WND DMG     HUNTINGTON              35.08N 94.26W
05/01/2019                   SEBASTIAN          AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED TREE DAMAGE IN THE
            HUNTINGTON AREA WITH ONE TREE FALLING ON A ROOF AND
            CAUSING STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO A HOUSE. NO INJURIES.

1030 AM     FLOOD            JAY                     36.42N 94.80W
05/01/2019                   DELAWARE           OK   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            STATE HIGHWAY 127 IS CLOSED ALMOST A MILE WEST OF US-59
            DUE TO A DAMAGED DRAINAGE STRUCTURE FROM HEAVY RAINS.

1030 AM     FLOOD            BENTONVILLE             36.37N 94.21W
05/01/2019                   BENTON             AR   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            NUMEROUS CLOSED ROADS IN BENTON COUNTY FROM FLOODING.

1030 AM     FLOOD            MIAMI                   36.87N 94.88W
05/01/2019                   OTTAWA             OK   PUBLIC

            CAR UNDER WATER NEAR ELM STREET AND CENTRAL STREET NEAR
            NEO COLLEGE IN MIAMI.

1105 AM     TSTM WND DMG     HAILEYVILLE             34.85N 95.58W
05/01/2019                   PITTSBURG          OK   BROADCAST MEDIA

            AUTO BODY BUSINESS HEAVILY DAMAGED IN HAILEYVILLE WITH
            SOME CUSTOMERS CARS DESTROYED. PICTURES RECEIVED VIA
            SOCIAL MEDIA.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 7:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	3 hr
Apr 30, 7:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers and 3 more	6 hr
Apr 30, 8:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	6 hr
Apr 30, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	48 min
Apr 30, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee	29 min
Apr 30, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	31 min
Apr 30, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee	28 min
Apr 30, 9:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	21 hr
Apr 30, 9:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	41 min
Apr 30, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	51 min
Apr 30, 10:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	23 min
Apr 30, 10:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	24 min
Apr 30, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	48 min
Apr 30, 10:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	43 min
Apr 30, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah	42 min
Apr 30, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	39 min
Apr 30, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	46 min
Apr 30, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	43 min
Apr 30, 11:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	24 min
May 1, 12:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	18 hr
May 1, 12:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	61 hr
May 1, 1:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pittsburg	3 hr
May 1, 1:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	18 hr
May 1, 1:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Hughes	42 min
May 1, 1:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
May 1, 2:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	24 min
May 1, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	41 min
May 1, 2:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	17 hr
May 1, 3:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	3 hr
May 1, 3:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	43 min
May 1, 3:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	6 hr
May 1, 3:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	6 hr
May 1, 4:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	26 min
May 1, 4:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	25 min
May 1, 4:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer, Pushmataha	42 min
May 1, 4:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	52 min
May 1, 5:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
May 1, 7:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 3 more	9 hr
May 1, 8:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	30 hr
May 1, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 1 more	13 hr
May 1, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	38 min
Apr 30, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	49 min
Apr 30, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	48 min
Apr 30, 10:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton, Washington	3 hr
Apr 30, 10:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll, Madison, Washington	50 min
Apr 30, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	37 min
May 1, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	31 min
May 1, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	16 min
May 1, 1:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	3 hr
May 1, 1:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton, Washington	3 hr
May 1, 11:49 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	3 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.