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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Norman, OK

June 9, 1993Caddo County, Comanche County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT for Caddo County, Comanche County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1993, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 1993-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2933 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1993-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2933 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
15.5

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay29 min
Jun 9, 12:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche25 min
Jun 9, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo51 min
Jun 9, 1:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche41 min
Jun 9, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton44 min
Jun 9, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton65 min
Jun 9, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady46 min
Jun 9, 1:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche46 min
Jun 9, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens48 min
Jun 9, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter63 min
Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma56 min
Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, McClain56 min
Jun 9, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Murray64 min
Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole64 min
Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Oklahoma64 min
Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland64 min
Jun 9, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne61 min
Jun 9, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes57 min
Jun 8, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay44 min
Jun 8, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay57 min
Jun 9, 11:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox50 min
Jun 9, 12:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWilbarger42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.