Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1994, 8:53 PM CDT for Custer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1994, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Custer County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
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 Jun 6, 4:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 4:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA 331 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 CNVCTN FIRG ALG DRYLN IN W TX AND EXPC WL SPRD AS FAR E AS WRN ZNS THIS EVE BFR DCRG/DSIPTG BFR REACHG CNTRL SECS. CD BE REPEAT AGAIN FOR TUE AFTN AND EVE FOR DRYLN CNVCTN IF CAP DOEST INCR. EXPC DRYLN WL BE A LTL FRTHR E AND WD ALW CNVCTN TO PSBLY REACH CNTRL SECS TUE NGT BFT DCRG. LTL UPR DYNMICS WL BE AVBL THIS AREA TO AID CNVCTN AS STG UPR LO TO PUSH SLOLY EWD ACRS CNTRL/NRN PLNS. SFC RDG BLDG BHD UPR SYS WL SUPRT CDFNT TO PUSH SEWD INTO NW OK LT WED AND THRU ALL BUT EXTRM SE ON THU. FNT TO CONT TO SAG SEWD AND SHD BE S OF AREA BY SAT. FCSTID=06 HBR 70 95 70 97 / 20 20 30 30 OKC 70 90 71 93 / 10 10 20 30 SPS 72 95 72 98 / 10 10 10 20 GAG 68 95 65 93 / 20 20 30 40 PNC 70 92 71 94 / 10 10 20 40 DUA 70 91 71 94 / 10 10 10 10 .OKC...NONE. .TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 6, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
715 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994
TIME COUNTY EVENT/LOCATION
...DELAYED FROM THE EVENING OF THE 5TH AND THE EARLY MORNING OF THE
6TH...
830 PM /5TH ALFALFA QUARTER SIZE HAIL 4.5 MILES NORTH AND
6.5 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON.
900 PM /5TH WOODWARD DIME SIZE HAIL 11 MILES NORTH OF
MOORELAND.
920 PM /5TH ALFALFA DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES NORTH 7 MILES
EAST OF AMORITA.
1000 PM /5TH GRANT STRONG WINDS BLEW DOWN 3 INCH DIAMETER
TREE LIMBS 3 MILES EAST OF RENFROW.
100 AM /6TH OKLAHOMA LIGHTING STARTED A WAREHOUSE FIRE ON
NORTH SANTE FE IN OKLAHOMA CITY.
DAMAGE WAS MINOR.
110 AM /6TH GARFIELD LIGHTNING STARTED AN OIL TANK BATTERY
FIRE NEAR ENID.
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709 PM /6TH CUSTER 2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 4 MILES NORTHWEST
t OF WEATHERFORD.
MTE/FABLocal storm report, Jun 6, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
715 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994
TIME COUNTY EVENT/LOCATION
...DELAYED FROM THE EVENING OF THE 5TH AND THE EARLY MORNING OF THE
6TH...
830 PM /5TH ALFALFA QUARTER SIZE HAIL 4.5 MILES NORTH AND
6.5 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON.
900 PM /5TH WOODWARD DIME SIZE HAIL 11 MILES NORTH OF
MOORELAND.
920 PM /5TH ALFALFA DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES NORTH 7 MILES
EAST OF AMORITA.
1000 PM /5TH GRANT STRONG WINDS BLEW DOWN 3 INCH DIAMETER
TREE LIMBS 3 MILES EAST OF RENFROW.
100 AM /6TH OKLAHOMA LIGHTING STARTED A WAREHOUSE FIRE ON
NORTH SANTE FE IN OKLAHOMA CITY.
DAMAGE WAS MINOR.
110 AM /6TH GARFIELD LIGHTNING STARTED AN OIL TANK BATTERY
FIRE NEAR ENID.
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709 PM /6TH CUSTER 2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 4 MILES NORTHWEST
OF WEATHERFORD.
MTE/FABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Washita | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Washita | 24 min |
| Jun 6, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Washita | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 52 min |
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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.