Widespread heavy rain caused flash flooding across a significant part of northeast Oklahoma.
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The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
Widespread heavy rain caused flash flooding across a significant part of northeast Oklahoma.
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 Jun 23, 5:47 AM CST, 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 647 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 .AVIATION... NEXT FEW HOURS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY ONGOING CONVECTION. TRIED TO TIME THE CONVECTION OUT OF THE TUL AND RVS AREAS AND BRING MORE IN ABOUT MID MORNING. ALSO TIMED CONVECTION TOWARD XNA AND FYV. EXPECT BOUNDARIES FROM KS CONVECTION TO DROP SOUTH AND HELP FOCUS CONVECTION LATER TODAY. OTHERWISE...INSTABILITY...NO CAP...AND AFTERNOON HEATING SHOULD PRODUCE MORE STORMS LATER TODAY. && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && AVIATION...02
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 726 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-241000- 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- 721 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING BUT MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. FLASH FLOOD. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. HEAVY RAIN. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... WEAK TROUGH WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH DEEP MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO PROVIDE A GOOD ENVIRONMENT FOR CONTINUED CONVECTION WITH HEAVY RAIN THROUGH TONIGHT. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL PROVIDE IMPETUS FOR MUCH OF THE STRONGER CONVECTION...BUT NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL LIKELY PROVIDE SOME LIFT AND FOCUS ALSO. WIND FIELDS WILL NOT SUPPORT SUPER CELLS...BUT THERE WILL BE A LIMITED RISK OF ISOLATED PULSE SEVERE STORMS...MAINLY IN THE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR FLASH FLOOD PROBLEMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES WITH TROUGHING OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THAT WILL COMBINE WITH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO KEEP THE WEATHER UNSETTLED THROUGH THE WEEK. A SURGE OF GULF MOISTURE MOVES NORTHWARD BY MID WEEK WHILE A COLD FRONT DROPS SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA AROUND WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY. THIS WILL ALSO ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION. $$
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:46 UTC.
9 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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Heavy rains caused high water which required a few streets in the town to be closed. Water also flowed into a few homes and into a nursing home. Residents at the nursing home had to moved.
Heavy rains caused flooding which required Highway 28 west of Adair to be closed. Numerous secondary roads in and around Adair were flooded.
Heavy rains caused flooding in and around Wagoner. Water entered the Civc Center and also a few homes within the city. Streets within the city and secondary roads around the city were also flooded.
Heavy rains caused flooding of secondary roads in and around Pharoah.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, June 2007
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