Severe Weather Alert - Tulsa NWS

I use an add on for Mozilla Firefox called Forecastfox. It puts some tiny icons down at the bottom of the window, displaying a simplified weather radar, the current conditions, and a brief forecast for tomorrow. But it also includes a severe weather alert function, a small red icon that pops up whenever the National Weather Service issues an alert for this area. Very handy during tornado season.

It popped up today with this:

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
157 PM CDT MON SEP 1 2008

...HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH GUSTAV WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL
FOR FLOODING TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING...

.GUSTAV WILL MOVE INTO EAST TEXAS TUESDAY...THEN SLOW TO A
CRAWL AND DRIFT NORTHEAST WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THIS SLOW
MOVEMENT MEANS A PROLONGED PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN FOR AREAS
NORTH AND EAST OF THE STORM TRACK. EASTERN OKLAHOMA...PARTICULARLY
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
WILL BE IN THE HEAVY RAIN AREA.

AT THIS TIME...IT LOOKS AS THOUGH 4 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN WILL
FALL FROM SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS. THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS ARE MOST LIKELY TO THE SOUTH
AND EAST. LOCAL AMOUNTS MAY REACH 12 INCHES SHOULD THE STORM
STALL OR MAINTAIN A BANDED PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE WITH
EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS.

FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE IN HEAVY RAIN BANDS WITH HIGH
RATES OF PRECIPITATION. THE PROLONGED NATURE OF THIS EVENT
ALSO MAKES WIDESPREAD AREAL AND RIVER FLOODING A POSSIBILITY.

THE EXACT TRACK AND SPEED OF THIS STORM WILL DETERMINE WHERE
AND HOW MUCH RAIN WILL FALL. THUS...THE FORECAST RAIN AMOUNTS
AND EXACTLY WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL OCCUR WILL BE
CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED DURING THE COURSE OF THE EVENT.

THIS MAY BECOME A MAJOR FLOOD EVENT.

We had major flooding here back in the spring and I'm not looking forward to more. Our house is on a high spot, so unless it's a flood of biblical proportions we're safe. But it seems that even a heavy dew can cause Bird Creek to overflow it's banks. That's a PITA for me, because I have to go the long way around in order to get to work. But for the people upstream in Skiatook and Sperry, it's a nightmare. Many houses are on the flood plain.

Yes, I'm such a whiner. Other people are worried that they may lose their houses, and here I am whining about having to drive to work instead of riding my bike.