Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1992, 8:14 AM CDT for Comanche County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1992, 8:14 AM CDT (13:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1992, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOKC 281315 FFWOKC OKC031-281715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 814 AM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OKLAHOMA CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING OKLAHOMA LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF COMANCHE COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 3.5 INCHES SINCE MIDNIGHT HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN WESTERN SECTIONS OF LAWTON. COMPUTERIZED RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT MORE THAN 4 INCHES MAY HAVE FALLEN IN WESTERN PORTIONS OF COMANCHE COUNTY NEAR CACHE SINCE MIDNIGHT. THE HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES AND ANOTHER INCH OR SO OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF COMANCHE COUNTY. AS A RESULT FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNING AREA...ESPECIALLY ALONG WEST CACHE CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY . MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 4:14 AM CDT, 4 hours before
TXZ019-020-281015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 415 AM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION EAST OF WICHITA FALLS... EARLY MORNING RAIN...RAINSHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN A 75 MILE WIDE AREA ACROSS POSTIONS OF CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. JUST AFTER 4AM CDT...THE LEADING EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION SHIELD WAS LOCATED ALONG OR WEST OF A SHAWNEE...ARDMORE...GAINVILLE... DECATUR LINE. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED WEST TO ELECTRA AND SEYMOUR. A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WAS NOTED FROM THE DUNCAN OKLAHOMA VICINITY...CROSSING THE RED RIVER BETWEEN WICHITA FALLS AND BOWIE AND EXTENDING SOUTH TO JACKSBORO AND GRAHAM. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MPH. RAINFALL AT THE WICHITA FALLS AIRPORT HAS AMOUNTED TO .60 HUNDREDS OF AN INCH WITH LIGHT RAINSHOWERS STILL IN PROGRESS. PERSONS AC>ROSS CLAY...MONTAGUE..JACK AND YOUNG COUNTIES WILL RECEIVE SIMILAR TOTALS BEFORE SUNRISE.
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ019-020-281130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 530 AM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...PRECIPITATION CONTINUES EAST AND NORTH OF WICHITA FALLS... JUST BEFORE SUNRISE...THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION IN THE FORM OF RAINSHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OCCURRING SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER SOUTHEAST OF A HENRIETTA...OLNEY LINE. NORTH OF THE RED RIVER...THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RAINS WERE NOTED FROM THE LAWTON VICINITY...WEST TO BETWEEN ALTUS AND HOBART. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE...PRECIPITATION INTENSITIES WERE TAPERING OFF IN THE WICHITA FALLS AREA AND POINTS WEST. THE RAINFALL TOTAL JUST BEFORE 530 AM WAS .7 TENTHS AT THE AIRPORT WITH AN OVERNIGHT LOW SO FAR OF 56 DEGREES. CLOUDY SKIES WITH PERIODS OF LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE IS EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF THURSDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ARE FORECAST LATTER TODAY INTO TONIGHT ACROSS THIS SECTION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. V
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
TXZ019-020-281305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 705 AM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...RAINY MORNING IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY... JUST AFTER SUNRISE...A LARGE PRECIPITATION SHIELD IN THE FORM OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUED TO AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND THIS SECTION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE RAIN WAS INDICATED GENERALLY ALONG OR EAST OF A MINERAL WELLS... GRAHAM...SEYMOUR...QUANAH LINE. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED EAST INTO THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...SHERMAN...TO JUST WEST OF MCALLESTER OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED BETWEEN BOWIE AND DALLAS/FORT WORTH AND FROM LAWTON TO ALTUS OKLAHOMA. BY 7AM CDT...THE WICHITA FALLS AIRPORT MEASURED .73 HUNDREDS OF AN INCH OF RAIN AND THE OVERNIGHT LOW WAS 55 DEGREES. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING...ONLY LIGHT SPORATIC RAIN OR DRIZZLE IS EXPECTED THE THE LOCAL AREA.
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.