Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT for Caddo County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Caddo County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 26, 4:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 4:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA 407 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995 BUSY MRNG WITH TSTMS OVR MUCH OF THE FA. FNTL BNDRY STILL TO THE SOUTH OF THE FA AND SHUD BEGIN TO LIFT SLOWLY NWD TODAY. WDSPRD TSTMS N OF THE SFC FNT THIS MRNG IN AREA OF WAA. EXPECT THIS TO CONT TODAY AS FNTL BNDRY GRDLY LIFTS NWD. S/W OVR SRN CA SHOWS UP WELL WV SAT IMAGERY. PREFER AVN MOVEMNT OF THIS S/W THROUGH THE SRN ROCKIES TODAY AND INTO THE PLAINS TONIGHT. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF TSTMS TO DVLP TO THE WEST THIS AFTN AND EVENING AND SPREAD OVER THE AREA AS S/W MOVS IN AND LO LVL FLO BCMS MORE SLY AND LO LVL MOISTR INCREASES. ON SAT MAIN ACTION SHIFTS INTO CNTRL AND ERN ZONES AS DRY LINE/SFC FNT MOVE EWD. GUIDANCE TMPS LOOK A LTL HI TODAY WITH SFC FNT SLO TO MOVE NWD AND WILL UNDERCUT ACCORDINGLY. FCSTID=02 HBR 73 63 84 59 / 60 60 20 10 OKC 72 63 82 59 / 60 50 20 10 SPS 75 66 88 61 / 50 50 20 10 GAG 68 58 82 52 / 60 60 10 10 PNC 69 63 82 57 / 60 50 20 10 DUA 80 68 84 64 / 40 30 30 20 .OKC...NONE. .TX...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Bryan | 3 hr |
| 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, 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.