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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Norman, OK

May 26, 1994Clay County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1994, 12:15 AM CDT for Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1994, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1994, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Clay County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1920 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 May 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 8 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 8 hours 50 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 252024

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
325 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

UPR SYS OVR SW U.S. MOVG/REFORMING EWD INTO XTRM WRN NM DURG NXT SRVL
HRS WITH S/WS ROTATING ARND UPR SYS. LLFLO NOT REAL STG BUT SVRL OTHER
PARAMETERS IN PLACE FOR SVRL ROUNDS OF TSTMS OVR FA NXT 24 TO 48 HRS.

MAY NEED FFWTCH FOR SRN PTN OF FA LTR. RNFL LAST NGT WAS SPOTTY AND
SINCE GRND NOT SATURATED OVR MUCH OF AREA WL WAIT TIL BNDRY BCMS BTR
ESTABLISHED. BLV SFC CDNFT ASSOCIATED WTH NRN S/W WL BCM BTR DEFINED AS
S/W MOVS INTO THE UPR MDWST LTR TDY AND SFC HI BLDS ACRS NRN PLAINS.
AS CDFNT BCMS BTR DEFINED AND MOVS INTO NRN OK TNGT AND CONVECTION ALG
OLD BNDRY TO THE S DVLPS FA MAY HAV 2 AREAS OF CONCERN FOR HVY RNFL AND
SVR WX.

UPR SYS SLO TO MOV OUT SO WL HOLD ON TO PCPN THRU MST OF THE AREA THRU
THUR NGT.

FCSTID=20
PRELIM NBRS

HBR   60  78  56  76/ 80  60  30  20
OKC   62  78  57  75/ 70  60  30  20
SPS   65  80  59  78/ 80  50  30  20
GAG   55  73  50  73/ 80  30  20  10
PNC   59  75  52  75/ 60  30  30  20
DUA   65  80  61  78/ 80  60  40  20

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 9:15 PM CDT, 3 hours before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
915 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME                 COUNTY           EVENT/LOCATION

730 PM (APPROX.)     HARDEMAN, TX     ESTIMATED 60-80 MPH WINDS CAUSING
                                      ROOF DAMAGE AND KNOCKING DOWN
                                      TREES AND POWER TRANSFORMERS IN
                                      QUANAH.

840 PM               WICHITA, TX      SOFT DIME SIZE HAIL AT SHEPPARD
                                      AFB.

915 PM               CLAY, TX         DIME SIZE HAIL IN BLUEGROVE.

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Local storm report, May 25, 9:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
915 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME                 COUNTY           EVENT/LOCATION

730 PM (APPROX.)     HARDEMAN, TX     ESTIMATED 60-80 MPH WINDS CAUSING
                                      ROOF DAMAGE AND KNOCKING DOWN
                                      TREES AND POWER TRANSFORMERS IN
                                      QUANAH.

840 PM               WICHITA, TX      SOFT DIME SIZE HAIL AT SHEPPARD
                                      AFB.

915 PM               CLAY, TX         DIME SIZE HAIL IN BLUEGROVE.

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Local storm report, May 25, 10:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1048 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

1040 PM               CLAY             NICKEL SIZED HAIL 10 S OF
                                       HENRIETTA.

CW

Local storm report, May 25, 10:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1048 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

1040 PM               CLAY             NICKEL SIZED HAIL 10 S OF
                                       HENRIETTA.

CW

Local storm report, May 25, 11:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1105 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

1042 PM               CARTER         MINOR DAMAGE TO 6 TRAILER HOUSES
                                     NEAR ARDMORE...2N OF HWY 70 BTWN
                                     ADMORE AND LONE GROVE. LIKELY DUE
                                     TO STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

CW

Local storm report, May 25, 11:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1105 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

1042 PM               CARTER         MINOR DAMAGE TO 6 .TRAILER HOUSES
                                     NEAR ARDMORE...2N OF HWY 70 BTWN
                                     ADMORE AND LONE GROVE. LIKELY DUE
                                     TO STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

CW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	49 min
May 25, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	31 min
May 25, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	54 min
May 25, 7:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hardeman	27 min
May 25, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	41 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	53 min
May 25, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	64 min
May 25, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	50 min
May 25, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Clay	30 min
May 25, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	45 min
May 26, 12:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Clay	4 hr

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.