Kansas Floods Moving Into Truman-Oologah Lakes

Needless to say- there shouldn't be ANY recreational boating on at least two regional flood-control lakes on July 4.

Truman Lake's dam at Warsaw-MO is holding back the record floodwaters from the Big Creek- Marais des Cygnes and Little Osage rivers- as well as major floods on the South Grand and Marmaton rivers.

Here's the present Truman Lake level:

Next is a map of Truman Lake.The light blue is the lake at normal "conservation pool" or level. I have filled- in darker blue- the additional land set aside for flood control that would be flooded if the lake reaches it's maximum flood-control pool of 639 feet.



Northeast of Tulsa-OK- the Army Corps of Engineer's Oologah Lake is catching the record floodwaters (and the spilled 42000-gallons of Coffeyville oil) from the Verdigris River.

The Verdigris crested at 3 pm yesterday at Lanapah-OK- the last river gage before the lake- at 42.89 feet.

The chart below is a 3-day comparison of the lake level- the flood inflow into (huge) and floodgate discharges (small) out of the lake.

This lake is rising at about .2 of a foot per hour - or a foot every 5 hours and is less than 4 feet from the listed top of Oologah's maximum flood storage capacity.

Oologah Lake
Flood Control Pool: Bottom = 638.00, Top = 661.00

ELEVATION STORAGE INFLOW RELEASE
FEET ACFT CFS CFS
(CDT)
06/30 10:00 647.39 891175 47373 0
07/01 10:00 649.76 990014 48356 0
07/02 10:00 652.10 1093401 101203 21010
07/03 09:00 656.84 1325256 156647 25309
07/03 10:00 657.04 1335662 ---- ----



There are some indications a cool front moving southward into the Kansas City MetroRegion tomorrow (July 4) could slow down or hang up for a day or two south of us- which could be the focus for additional rains.

This will be monitored closely and reported here.

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