Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Norman, OK
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
- 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
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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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Tillman | 52 min |
| May 26, 5:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo | 3 hr |
| May 26, 7:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 3 hr |
| May 26, 7:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Grady | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Washita | 64 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Washita | 31 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer | 41 min |
| May 26, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 44 min |
| May 26, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 55 min |
| May 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 62 min |
| May 26, 6:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.