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Flash Flood Warning 119, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1995, 12:35 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1995, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 876 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 3, 10:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 10:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1155 AM CDT THU AUG 03 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1120 AM E & W OF MEDFORD OK ST HWY 11 CLOSED DUE 8/3/95 GRANT TO HIGH WATER 1117 AM JET OK US HWY 64 CLOSED DUE 8/3/95 ALFALFA TO HIGH WATER FM
Local storm report, Aug 3, 11:55 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1155 AM CDT THU AUG 03 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1120 AM E & W OF MEDFORD OK ST HWY 11 CLOSED DUE 8/3/95 GRANT TO HIGH WATER 1117 AM JET OK US HWY 64 CLOSED DUE 8/3/95 ALFALFA TO HIGH WATER FM
The office that day
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, 4:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Washita | 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 |
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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.