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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Norman, OK

August 4, 1994Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1994, 5:20 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1994, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pushmataha County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 1994-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 646 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 1994-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 4, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FOR TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
305 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1994

TSTMS DVLPG THIS AFTN ALG FNTL BNDRY WHICH SHOWS UP NICELY ON MESONET
FROM ARND PERRY TO KINGFISHER TO SOUTH OF ERICK. EXPECT FNT TO CONT TO
PROGRESS SWD DURG THE NIGHT AND PUSH S OF THE FA BY FRI MORNING. WILL
CONT WITH POPS ALG AND SOUTH OF THE FNTL BNDRY FOR TONIGHT AND MAYBE
HOLD ONTO SOME LO POPS FOR THE SE EARLY FRI MORNING. WITH BNDRY S OF THE
AREA DURG THE DAY FRI NOT MUCH EXPECTED. HOWEVER...NGM SHOWS S/W COMING
OVR THE TOP OF  THE UPPER RDG FRI AFTN AND FRIDAY NIGHT. LEE TROF DVLPS
WITH THE APCH OF THE S/W WITH LO LVL FLO BCMG MORE SE TO SLY AND
INCRSS FRIDAY NIGHT. WITH POSBLTY OF MCS DVLPG TO OUR NORTH THEN MOVING
S OR SEWD INTO NRN PARTS OF THE FA WILL INCLUDE POPS FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
FOR AT LEAST NRN ZONES AND PSBLY ALSO CNTRL SECS. SOME COOLG FOR FRIDAY
WITH TMPS WARMING SAT AS SLY FLO RETURNS TO THE FA.

FCSTID=02
HBR   67  89  66  93 / 30  10  10  10
OKC   68  86  66  90 / 30  10  20  20
SPS   70  90  68  95 / 30  10  10  10
GAG   60  87  64  92 / 10  10  30  20
PNC   68  85  65  90 / 10  10  30  20
DUA   70  8.8  65  90 / 40  20  10  10

.OKC...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha43 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.