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  • Flood Watch Issued by NWS Tulsa (Eastern Oklahoma)

    Event: Flood Watch
    Alert:
    ...HERMINE WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN TO PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA...

    .THE REMNANTS OF HERMINE WILL MOVE FROM NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS
    MORNING TO SOUTHEAST KANSAS BY LATE THURSDAY MORNING.

    ...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...

    THE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR

    * PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND
    SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...IN EAST
    CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...MUSKOGEE AND OKFUSKEE. IN NORTHEAST
    OKLAHOMA...CRAIG...CREEK...MAYES...NOWATA...OKMULG EE...OSAGE...
    OTTAWA...PAWNEE...ROGERS...TULSA...WAGONER AND WASHINGTON. IN
    SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...MCINTOSH AND PITTSBURG.

    * THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING

    * TWO TO FIVE INCHES OF RAINFALL WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS APPROACHING
    TEN INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS
    AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE THURSDAY MORNING. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS
    ARE EXPECTED NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MCALESTER...TO
    MUSKOGEE...TO JAY.

    * THE COMBINATION OF HIGH RAINFALL AMOUNTS...ALONG WITH SPORADIC
    PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES AN
    HOUR...WILL CAUSE POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN AREAS TO FLOOD. THE
    TOTAL RAINFALL MAY ALSO BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE CREEKS AND RIVERS TO
    OVERFLOW.
    Instructions: A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON CURRENT FORECASTS. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A FLOOD PRONE AREA...MONITOR LOCAL CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION.
    Target Area:
    Adair
    Atoka
    Benton
    Chautauqua
    Cherokee
    Coal
    Cowley
    Craig
    Creek
    Delaware
    Haskell
    Hughes
    Kay
    Labette
    Latimer
    Lincoln
    Mayes
    McDonald
    McIntosh
    Montgomery
    Muskogee
    Newton
    Noble
    Nowata
    Okfuskee
    Okmulgee
    Osage
    Ottawa
    Pawnee
    Payne
    Pittsburg
    Pottawatomie
    Pushmataha
    Rogers
    Seminole
    Sequoyah
    Tulsa
    Wagoner
    Washington

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