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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Norman, OK

May 25, 1995Bryan County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1995, 7:29 PM CDT for Bryan County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bryan County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
605 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, 2:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 1:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
145 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1995

TIME(CDT)   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE        ....COUNTY LOCATION....

125 PM      HENRIETTA               TX     0.88 INCH HAIL ON THE EAST
5/25/95     CLAY                           SIDE OF HENRIETTA

SN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton, Tillman52 min
May 26, 5:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCanadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma3 hr
May 26, 5:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCaddo3 hr
May 26, 7:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole3 hr
May 26, 7:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNLincoln3 hr
May 26, 8:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCleveland, McClain, Oklahoma3 hr
May 26, 8:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCaddo, Canadian, Grady3 hr
May 26, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Washita64 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWashita31 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster41 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox44 min
May 26, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Wilbarger55 min
May 26, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox62 min
May 26, 6:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBaylor, Wilbarger3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.