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FLWOUN
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
306 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2025
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN OK HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN OKLAHOMA...
CHIKASKIA RIVER NEAR BLACKWELL AFFECTING KAY AND GRANT COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV.
OKC053-071-182015-
/O.NEW.KOUN.FL.W.0069.250618T1851Z-250620T0542Z/
/BLKO2.3.ER.250618T1851Z.250619T0600Z.250619T2341Z.NO/
306 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2025
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO EARLY FRIDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...MAJOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...CHIKASKIA RIVER NEAR BLACKWELL.
* WHEN...FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS...AT 32.0 FEET, SEVERAL CITY BLOCKS IN NORTHEAST BLACKWELL
ARE AFFECTED. SOME RESIDENCES WILL BE SURROUNDED BY DEPTHS
APPROACHING 3 FEET IN STREETS. HIGHWAY 177 NORTH OF BLACKWELL...
AND HUBBARD ROAD SOUTHEAST OF BLACKWELL ARE CLOSED. BLACKWELL
AVENUE IS OVERTOPPED. RURAL LANDS ARE COVERED BY FLOODWATERS
RANGING UP TO 4 FEET IN DEPTH IN EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GRANT AND
KAY COUNTIES.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 2:30 AM CDT WEDNESDAY THE STAGE WAS 19.5 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 28.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE CHIKASKIA RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE
FLOOD STAGE THIS AFTERNOON TO A CREST OF 32.0 FEET JUST AFTER
MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. IT WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE
TOMORROW EVENING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 29.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
32.0 FEET ON 04/30/1995.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 3700 9750 3700 9743 3682 9722 3666 9721
3668 9729 3681 9730
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