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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 4, 2025Sequoyah County, Oklahoma; Crawford County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this river flood warning at Apr 4, 2025, 8:04 PM CDT for Sequoyah County, Oklahoma; Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2025, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2025, 2:55 AM CDT
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Major

Counties Crawford County, AR, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Lee Creek near Van Buren LCR (VBRA4). The gauge peaked at 25.48 ft at Apr 5, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 399 ft
Minor stage: 401 ft
Moderate stage: 404 ft
Major stage: 405 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07250085, 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 4, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 5:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
509 PM CDT Fri Apr 4 2025

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-051045-
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-
509 PM CDT Fri Apr 4 2025

...SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES THIS EVENING...

This Outlook is for Northwest and West Central Arkansas as well as
much of Eastern Oklahoma.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.
TORNADO.
RISK...Elevated.
AREA...LeFlore county in Oklahoma; Sebastian and Franklin counties in Arkansas.
ONSET...Ongoing...ending by around 7 PM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
RISK...Critical.
AREA...Far Eastern Oklahoma into Western Arkansas.
ONSET...Ongoing...ending around 7 PM.

AREA AT GREATEST RISK...LeFlore county in Oklahoma; Sebastian and Franklin counties in Arkansas.

FLASH FLOOD.
RISK...Elevated.
AREA...Southeast Oklahoma into West-central and Northwest Arkansas.
ONSET...Ongoing.

DISCUSSION...

Numerous strong to severe storms draped across far southeast
Oklahoma into west-central and northwest Arkansas along and close
to a frontal boundary will pose a high severe risk for the
remainder of the afternoon, with the threat gradually shifting
east out of the area into the evening. The greatest tornado
threat exists over southeastern LeFlore county in Oklahoma, with
lesser threat as far north as Sebastian and Franklin counties in
Arkansas. Large hail and locally damaging wind are the primary
threats.

Swaths of heavy rainfall from multiple rounds of heavy rain
producing thunderstorms thru Saturday morning will pose an
elevated and dangerous flash flood threat, mainly across southeast
Oklahoma into west-central and northwest Arkansas. Three to eight
inches of rain, with some localized totals to around 10 inches
are expected. Main-stem river flooding is also expected, and will
likely linger into early next week.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
Activation of the Regional Spotter Network Expected.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.
SATURDAY...Thunderstorm...High Wind...Heavy Rain Potential.
SUNDAY...Winter Weather...High Wind Potential.
MONDAY and TUESDAY...No Hazards.
WEDNESDAY...High Wind Potential.
THURSDAY...No Hazards.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...

Widespread rain and thunderstorms are expected to spread northeast
across the region Saturday morning, with a limited severe weather
risk mainly confined to areas near the Red River in far southeast
Oklahoma. Hail and wind are the main threats.

Rain may mix with or change to snow across parts of northeast
Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas before ending late Saturday night
into early Sunday. A dusting of accumulation may occur on grassy
or elevated surfaces, but travel impacts are not expected.

Main-stem river flooding will likely linger into early next week.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT...
Severe weather and flooding impacts are likely to impact parts of
eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas now through the weekend.
Multiple periods of response may be required.

weather.gov/tulsa contains additional information.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 7:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
703 PM CDT Fri Apr 4 2025

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

0620 PM     Hail             2 S Rogers              36.30N 94.11W
04/04/2025  E0.75 Inch       Benton             AR   Public

            Report from mPING: Dime (0.75 in.).

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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 4, 8:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	6 hr
Apr 4, 8:49 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	11 hr
Apr 4, 8:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 4, 9:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	6 hr
Apr 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	26 min
Apr 4, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	10 min
Apr 5, 4:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	28 min
Apr 5, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	35 min
Apr 5, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee and 4 more	37 min
Apr 5, 5:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	26 min
Apr 5, 6:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	112 min
Apr 5, 6:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pushmataha	30 min
Apr 5, 7:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	LeFlore	3 hr
Apr 5, 7:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	3 hr
Apr 5, 8:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	2 hr
Apr 5, 9:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	LeFlore	3 hr
Apr 5, 9:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	90 min
Apr 5, 10:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	107 min
Apr 5, 11:08 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh and 11 more	6 hr
Apr 5, 2:11 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	12 hr
Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha and 1 more	24 hr
Apr 4, 9:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	37 min
Apr 4, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	35 min
Apr 4, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	26 min
Apr 4, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	39 min
Apr 4, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	28 min
Apr 4, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	34 min
Apr 5, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	42 min
Apr 5, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	51 min
Apr 5, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	47 min
Apr 5, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	43 min
Apr 5, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Franklin, Madison	29 min
Apr 5, 8:40 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	18 hr
Apr 5, 10:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton, Crawford, Washington	3 hr
Apr 5, 12:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	4 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.