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EXPIRED5/3/2024 8:37:00 AM (UTC)Urgency: ImmediateSeverity: SevereCertainty: Observed
5/3/2024 8:37:00 AM until 5/3/2024 8:45:00 PM
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 845 PM CDT.
Forecast flooding changed from Minor to Moderate severity and
increased in duration for the following rivers in Oklahoma...
Clear Boggy Creek near Caney affecting Atoka County.
* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is
forecast.
* WHERE...Clear Boggy Creek near Caney.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 29.0 feet, Creek levels rise to three feet higher
than flood stage in western Atoka County and the northeastern edge
of Bryan County. High stages on small feeder streams result in
even greater depths to mainstem bottomlands near their points of
entry into Clear Boggy Creek. Croplands... pastures... and some
secondary rural roads are flooded.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:30 AM CDT Friday the stage was 29.2 feet.
- Bankfull stage is 26.0 feet.
- Forecast...The Clear Boggy Creek is cresting and is expected
to fall below flood stage late tonight and continue falling.
- Flood stage is 26.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood