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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK

425 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR FRANKLIN...SEBASTIAN...

LE FLORE...PITTSBURG...LATIMER AND PUSHMATAHA COUNTIES UNTIL

530 AM CST...



AT 405 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WITH 

EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD 

MOVED SOUTHEAST...BUT ONGOING FLOODING PROBLEMS CONTINUE.



AT 330 AM...THE SEBASTIAN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED SEVERAL 

ROADS UNDER WATER...INCLUDING A BRIDGE ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 252 NEAR 

LAVACA. ALSO...A BRIDGE NEAR COOP PRAIRIE CREEK ROAD WAS FLOODED 

NORTH OF HARTFORD...AND SHERWOOD ROAD NORTH OF BONANZA WAS ALSO 

FLOODED. 



AT 340 AM...THE LE FLORE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING ON 

RIDGE ROAD...AND THE ROAD HAD BEEN CLOSED. 



AT 345 AM...THE PUSHMATAHA SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT DOZIER ROAD 

WAS CLOSED...AND UNDER 3 FEET OF WATER.



OFFICIALS IN PITTSBURG...FRANKLIN AND LATIMER COUNTIES HAD NO 

FLOODING REPORTED TO THEM YET.  



RADAR INDICATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER 

PORTION OF THE WARNED AREA SINCE LAST NIGHT. THE HEAVIEST RAIN 

LIKELY OCCURRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST LATIMER COUNTY...CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA 

COUNTY...AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF PITTSBURG AND LE FLORE COUNTIES.  

ANOTHER HALF INCH TO INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 530 AM 

CST.



THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...BUT FLOODING 

PROBLEMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH EARLY MORNING. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT

QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY

IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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