Flood, Ottawa
- When
- January 29, 7:00 PM CST to January 30, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ottawa forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 36.836, -94.810 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Oklahoma, January 29 to 30, 2001
The Neosho River near Commerce rose above its flood stage of 15 feet at 7 pm on January 29. 7 feet at 4 am on January 30 before falling below its flood stage at 3 pm the same day.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
The Neosho River near Commerce rose above its flood stage of 15 feet at 7 pm on January 29. The river crested at 15.7 feet at 4 am on January 30 before falling below its flood stage at 3 pm the same day.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 29, 3:15 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 3:15 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 315 PM CST MON JAN 29 2001 CLOUDS OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA HAVE BROKEN UP...LEAVING THESE AREAS MOSTLY SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON. LOW CLOUDS REMAIN OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND NOT EXPECTING ANY CLEARING THIS EVENING. CLOSED UPPER LOW ACROSS KANSAS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SHORTWAVES ROTATING AROUND THE LOW MAY KEEP CLOUDS AROUND IN THE NORTHERN ZONES THROUGH TUESDAY. CLOUDS AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE THE MAIN CHALLENGE OF THIS FORECAST. AVN/ETA IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THROUGH 24 HOURS...AND BOTH MODELS GENERATE SOME SORT OF LIGHT PRECIPITATION OVER OUR NORTHERN ZONES. UPON REVIEWING SOME SOUNDING AND THICKNESS PROFILES...AS WELL AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES...BELIEVE THAT PRECIPITATION WOULD BE LIQUID RATHER THAN FLURRIES. CHANCES ARE TOO SMALL TO MENTION IN ZONES...AND WILL NOT SEE ACCUMULATIONS EVEN IF SPRINKLES DO DEVELOP. LOW LAYERS WARM THROUGH TIME...SO EVEN THOUGH AIR ALOFT WITH THE UPPER LOW IS QUITE COLD...WARMER AIR NEAR SURFACE WILL MELT ANY FROZEN PRECIPITATION. WILL CONTINUE WITH CLOUDY OR MOSTLY CLOUDY WORDING ACROSS NORTHERN ZONES THROUGH TUESDAY...WITH LESS CLOUDS EXPECTED SOUTH. TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOME SUN MADE IT INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 50S IN THE SOUTH...AND IT WILL BE AT LEAST THAT WARM TOMORROW. TEMPERATURES IN THE NORTH WILL BE ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON AMOUNT OF CLOUD COVER. CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED WITH THE CYCLONIC FLOW AND MOISTURE...SO WILL KEEP NORTHERN ZONES COOL. BY WEDNESDAY...ANOTHER SHORTWAVE APPROACHES THE AREA...AND BRINGS ANOTHER SHOT OF COLD AIR. AVN/MRF SHOW LIGHT QPF BUT ETA DOES NOT...AND CHANCES ARE AGAIN TOO SMALL TO MENTION IN ZONES AT THIS POINT. THERE WILL BE A WIND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST AND COOLER TEMPERATURES. BEST CHANCE FOR CLOUDS WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BE IN THE NORTHEAST. IN THE EXTENDED...NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL MEAN GENERALLY COOL TEMPERATURES THIS WEEK. THEN TEMPERATURES WILL WARM BY THE WEEKEND AS ANOTHER UPPER LOW DEVELOPS IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES. TEMPERATURES COULD GET QUITE WARM THIS WEEKEND...BEFORE ANOTHER COLD FRONT AFFECTS THE AREA SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. FCSTID = 6 TUL 35 50 31 44 / 10 10 10 10 FSM 35 52 32 47 / 10 10 10 10 MLC 35 54 30 45 / 10 10 10 10 BVO 33 45 26 42 / 10 10 10 10 FYV 36 45 30 42 / 10 10 10 10 BYV 36 45 30 42 / 10 10 10 10 MIO 34 43 30 42 / 10 10 10 10 MKO 35 50 31 44 / 10 10 10 10 F10 35 50 31 44 / 10 10 10 10 HHW 36 58 34 49 / 10 10 10 10 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. TAYLOR
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Washington, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, January 29, 2001
- Ice Storm in Iowa, January 29, 2001
- Blizzard in South Dakota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, January 29, 2001
- Winter Storm and High Wind in Nebraska, January 29 to 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, January 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5228874.