Heavy rainfall resulted in moderate flooding along the Deep Fork River near Beggs.
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Heavy rainfall resulted in moderate flooding along the Deep Fork River near Beggs.
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 18, 5:14 PM CST, 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 614 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 .AVIATION... CONCERNING TAF SITES KTUL/KRVS/KMLC/KXNA/KFYV/KFSM. FOR THE 0Z TAFS... VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL AT ALL TAF SITES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE FORECAST PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 351 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010/ DISCUSSION... TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON CLOSE TO YESTERDAYS READINGS. EXTRA MOISTURE/SURFACE DEWPOINT FROM EARLY WEEK RAIN FOOTPRINT HAVE HELD TEMPS BELOW MOS LEVEL LAST COUPLE DAYS. LEFLORE / SEBASTIAN COUNTIES WHERE LESS RAIN OCCURRED...ARE SEVERAL DEGREES HOTTER. PACIFIC NORTHWEST H500 MB LOW SYSTEM WILL BOTTOM OUT IN OREGON...THEN TURN NORTHEAST AND HEAD FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA. THIS LEAVES OUR PORTION OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...HIGH...HOT AND DRY. GREEN COUNTRY SHOULD BECOME SLIGHTLY LESS GREEN DURING THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS AND SURFACE DEWPOINTS WILL.. FINALLY START TO RECEDE. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL PUSH 105 DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FOR THE FORT SMITH AREA...AND METRO TULSA. SOME UNCERTAINTY IN FORECAST SURFACE DEWPOINT... THINKING IT WILL BE SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN TODAY... PRECLUDES A HEAT ADVISORY AT THIS TIME. GW && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && AVIATION...06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 449 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-191000- 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- 449 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING THROUGH MID EVENING. SIGNIFICANT WINDS. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING THROUGH MID EVENING. DISCUSSION... HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE EVENING...LEADING TO MAXIMUM HEAT INDICES IN THE 100 TO 103 RANGE. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL ALSO CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...WITH MAXIMUM GUSTS TO 25 MPH. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. THURSDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THE HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO NEXT WEEK...AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE AREA. AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES IN THE TRIPLE DIGITS WILL BE COMMON...ALONG WITH WARM OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES. HEAT STRESS IMPACTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND DISCUSSIONS AS HEAT INDICES WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REACH TO HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA INTO NEXT WEEK. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Deep Fork River near Beggs rose above its flood stage of 18 feet at 6:30 pm CDT on June 18th. The river crested at 23.61 feet at 6:30 pm CDT on June 20th, resulting in moderate flooding. The river fell below flood stage at 7:00 pm CDT on June 23rd.
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