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Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Issued: 5:10 PM Apr. 30, 2025 – National Weather Service
The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Eastern Pushmataha County in southeastern Oklahoma...
South central Le Flore County in southeastern Oklahoma...

* Until 100 PM CDT.

* At 1209 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Clayton to 6 miles southeast of Nashoba to 8
miles north of Manchester, moving northeast at 40 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations in or near the path include...
Octavia...                        Clayton Lake State Park...
Nashoba...                        Kiamichi...
Albion...                         Tuskahoma...
Honobia...                        Muse...
Clayton...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 500 PM CDT for southeastern
Oklahoma.

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TORNADO...POSSIBLE;
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED;
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN;
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED;
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Issued: 5:09 PM Apr. 30, 2025 – National Weather Service
The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Haskell County in southeastern Oklahoma...
Northeastern McIntosh County in southeastern Oklahoma...
Southwestern Sequoyah County in east central Oklahoma...
Latimer County in southeastern Oklahoma...
Western Le Flore County in southeastern Oklahoma...
Southeastern Muskogee County in east central Oklahoma...

* Until 100 PM CDT.

* At 1209 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 3 miles northwest of Checotah to 4 miles north of
Lequire to 5 miles north of Kiamichi, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations in or near the path include...
Kanima...                         Talimena State Park...
Greenleaf State Park...           Panola...
Whitefield...                     Mccurtain...
Webbers Falls...                  Kinta...
Cowlington...                     Mc Curtain...
Porum...                          Warner...
Stigler...                        Shady Point...
Panama...                         Checotah...
Whitesboro...                     Gore...
Talihina...                       Keefeton...

This includes Interstate 40 in Oklahoma between mile markers 258 and
295.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 500 PM CDT for southeastern
and east central Oklahoma.

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TORNADO...POSSIBLE;
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED;
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN;
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED;
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

Tornado Watch
Issued: 4:17 PM Apr. 30, 2025 – National Weather Service
TORNADO WATCH 197 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR
THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

SEBASTIAN

IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

CHOCTAW               HASKELL               LATIMER
LE FLORE              PITTSBURG             PUSHMATAHA

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ANTLERS, CLAYTON, FORT SMITH, HUGO,
MCALESTER, POTEAU, STIGLER, AND WILBURTON.

River Flood Warning
Issued: 2:27 PM Apr. 30, 2025 – National Weather Service
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY EVENING TO FRIDAY
MORNING...

* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.

* WHERE...Poteau River near Panama.

* WHEN...From Thursday evening to Friday morning.

* IMPACTS...At 29.0 feet, minor agricultural flooding occurs.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 8:30 AM CDT Wednesday the stage was 16.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
tomorrow evening to a crest of 29.2 feet tomorrow evening. It
will then fall below flood stage early Friday morning.
- Flood stage is 29.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

&&



Flood Watch
Issued: 7:49 AM Apr. 30, 2025 – National Weather Service
...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.

* WHERE...Portions of Arkansas, including the following counties,
Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and
Washington AR and Oklahoma, including the following counties,
Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell,
Latimer, Le Flore, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Okfuskee,
Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha, Rogers,
Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington OK.

* WHEN...Through late tonight.

* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Multiple rounds of showers and storms are expected through
this evening. Widespread 2 to 5 inch rains are forecast, with
locally heavier totals up to 7 inches.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

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