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Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast and Northern Plains; Critical Fire Weather in the West

Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging wind gusts and hail are forecast across the Northeast U.S. and North Dakota today. Heavy to excessive rainfall is possible over eastern New Mexico into western Texas and over the western Florida peninsula today. Critical fire weather conditions will persist today over parts of the interior Northwest and Great Basin. Read More >

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Year 2009

  • Fort Smith: The 2009 annual temperature was the same as the 2008 annual temperature.
  • River flooding occurred in 8 of the 12 months in 2009 and a total of 43 river floods occurred this year in eastern Oklahoma and northwest/west central Arkansas.
  • 2009 rainfall totals ranged from around 35 inches from eastern Kay/Osage/Pawnee Counties to around 70 inches in far southeast Oklahoma, with a large portion of eastern Oklahoma and northwest/west central Arkansas receiving between 40 and 60 inches.
  • According to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, for 2009, northeast OK was the 22nd wettest, east central OK was the 18th wettest, and southeast OK was the 8th wettest year on record (since 1921).
  • 13 tornadoes occurred across eastern Oklahoma and northwest/west central Arkansas in 2009.