Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:58 AM CDT for Washita County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1995, 4:58 AM CDT (09:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Washita County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 Aug 3, 4:03 AM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 4:03 AM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Blaine | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Tillman | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 10:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Harmon | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 10:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Carter | 20 min |
| Aug 3, 12:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.