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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Norman, OK

September 2, 1992Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 1992, 3:28 AM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 2, 1992, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 1992, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Garfield County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 611 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 1, 9:07 PM CDT, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 9:07 PM CDT, 6 hours 21 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
905 PM CDT TUE SEP 1 1992

ISOLD SVR TSTMS HAV DVLPD IN NW OK IN ADVNCE OF WK S/W XTNG FM NERN CO
SWD INTO TX PNHNDL. STMS ALSO AIDED BY STG H8 WAA ACRS ERN TX PNHNDL/WRN
OK. TSTMS LKLY TO PERSIST AT LEAST A FEW MOR HOURS GIVEN PREVIOUS
FACTORS...THUS CURNT FCST OF HI CHC CAT POPS MOST SECS APPEARS RSNBL. WL
BOOST POPS IN N-CNTRL OK SLGTLY TNGHT. HAVE NOT HAD ENUF TIME TO LUK AT
LATER PDS.

WSO SPS...BASED ON CONVCTN ACRS TX SOUTH PLAINS MOVG GENLY TWDS NWRN TX
ATTM...DO NOT PLAN TO CHG YOUR FCST. IF YOUR THOUGHTS DIFFER...PLS
CALL.
                                             ...15...
.OK...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 1, 9:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
945 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992

TIME(CDT)               COUNTY          REPORT

932 PM                  WOODS           DIME-SIZED HAIL 2 MI SOUTH OF
                                        LOOKOUT.

Local storm report, Sep 1, 10:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1005 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992

TIME(CDT)               COUNTY          REPORT

1000 PM                 WOODWARD        DIME-SIZE HAIL 5.5 MI NORTHEAST
                                        OF MOORELAND.

1006 PM                 WOODWARD        NICKEL-SIZE HAIL IN MOORELAND.

Local storm report, Sep 1, 11:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1125 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992

TIME(CDT)               COUNTY          REPORT

1120 PM                 WOODS           1-INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN FREEDOM.

Local storm report, Sep 1, 11:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1150 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992

TIME(CDT)               COUNTY          REPORT

1145 PM                 GARFIELD        NICKEL-SIZE HAIL AT ENID POLICE
                                        DEPARTMENT.

Local storm report, Sep 2, 1:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
0145 AM CDT WED SEP 02 1992

TIME(CDT)               COUNTY          REPORT

103 AM                  GARFIELD        DIME SIZED HAIL IN WEST ENID
143 AM                  GARFIELD        GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IN ENID

Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:11 AM CDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 1, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	46 min
Sep 1, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woodward	49 min
Sep 1, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	48 min
Sep 1, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	46 min
Sep 1, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	49 min
Sep 1, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	46 min
Sep 1, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	46 min
Sep 1, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	50 min
Sep 1, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	49 min
Sep 2, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	31 min
Sep 2, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	46 min
Sep 2, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	48 min
Sep 2, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	27 min
Sep 2, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	49 min
Sep 2, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	45 min
Sep 2, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kay	25 min
Sep 2, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble	43 min
Sep 2, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	46 min
Sep 2, 9:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	25 min
Sep 2, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	26 min
Sep 2, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw, Pushmataha	67 min
Sep 2, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	45 min
Sep 2, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	19 min
Sep 2, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	21 min
Sep 2, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	47 min
Sep 2, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	22 min
Sep 2, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	McClain	33 min
Sep 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie	45 min
Sep 2, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Pontotoc	43 min
Sep 2, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain	47 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.