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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Norman, OK

November 11, 1992Hughes County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 11, 1992, 7:59 AM CST for Hughes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 1992, 7:59 AM CST (13:59 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 1992, 11:00 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hughes County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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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 Nov 11, 3:31 AM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 3:31 AM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 11, 2:36 AM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 10, 7:49 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNTillman3 hr
Nov 10, 8:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNCleveland3 hr
Nov 10, 9:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman28 min
Nov 10, 9:56 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNCotton, Stephens3 hr
Nov 10, 9:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens61 min
Nov 10, 10:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman59 min
Nov 10, 10:52 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNTillman3 hr
Nov 10, 11:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche31 min
Nov 11, 12:42 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNCotton, Stephens3 hr
Nov 11, 1:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNGrady4 hr
Nov 11, 1:53 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNCleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie6 hr
Nov 11, 1:53 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNSeminole6 hr
Nov 11, 2:00 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNTillman3 hr
Nov 11, 7:59 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole3 hr
Nov 11, 1:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Payne40 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.