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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1995, 2:50 PM CDT for Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wilbarger County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KOKC 041951 COR
FFWOKC
TXC487-042245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED HEADER...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
250 PM CDT SUN JUN 04 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OKLAHOMA CITY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN TEXAS
WILBARGER
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
GRAYBACK AND VERNON
STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS
THE COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW THAT 1 TO 2
INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR WILL BE LIKELY WHICH WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. REMEMBER...MOST
DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. IT ONLY TAKES A
FOOT OR TWO OF bFLOWING WATER TO WASH MOST CARS AWAY.
CHURCHILL
LAT...LON 3386 9917 3385 9945 3436 9944 3432 9925
3414 9895 3400 9902What 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 Jun 4, 3:34 AM CDT, 11 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:34 AM CDT, 11 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 325 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 PRIMARY FCST PROBLEM IS FLASH FLOOD THREAT. WSR-88D STORM TOTAL PCPN PRODUCTS FROM KTLX/KFDR AND OBS FROM OK MESONET INDICATE HEAVIEST RAFL FROM CNTRL OK SWWD INTO SERN TX PANHDL. ALTHO SOM OF THE RAFL MAXES LIE BTWN GAGES...SOM LOCATIONS LIKELY HAVE RCVD NR 8 INCHES OF RN SINCE YDA. HYDROVIEW SOFTWARE INDICATES MANY STREAMS ALREADY RISING RAPIDLY WTH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR SVRL RVR POINTS...AND FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS COVERING SVRL COUNTIES. ONGOING CONVECTION CONTS TO AFFECT MNLY SWRN AND CNTRL OK ATTM. XPCT THESE STMS TO CONT MVG EWD THIS MRNG THEN GRDLY WKN MID-LATE MRNG. ANTICIPATE OUTFLOW BNDRY FM THIS MRNGS CONVECTION WL LIE FM NWRN TX INTO SCNTRL OK BY NOON. AS DAYTIME HTG PROCEEDS...XPCT BNDRY TO LIFT GRDLY NWD DURG AFTN WITH STMS REFIRING IN VCNTY OF THIS BNDRY. ALTHO SHEAR WL BE SLGTLY LESS THAN YDA...CAPES WL AGN BE HI...ESP AS MSTR POOLS NR BNDRY. THFR A FEW SVR STMS APPEAR LIKLY. STMS LKLY WL CONT AND BCM MOR WDSPRD OVRNGT WTH INCRG THREAT OF HVY RAFL. MDLS BRINGS NEXT WV INTO POSN TO AFFECT AREA LATE THIS AFTN TONIGHT WHICH WL ALSO AID ADDTL DVLPMT. IN ADDITION TO OUTFLOW BNDRY...SECOND FOCUS WL BE DRYLINE OVR W TX. THESE STMS NOT LKLY TO AFFECT FA UNTIL 2ND PD THO. GVN ABV SCENARIO...WL ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY INTO TNGT FOR ALL BUT XTRM NRN AND SRN PTNS OF FCST AREA. SVRL INCHES OF ADDTL RAFL PSBL OVR THE FFA AREA BY MON MRNG WHICH CUD RESULT IN WDSPRD FLOODING. FFA MAY NEED TO BE XPANDED LATER DEPENDING UPON MESOSCALE EVOLUTION. MOIST SELY LOW LVL FLOW AND WNWLY FLOW ALFT WL PRVD ADDTL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STMS ON MON. LTL CHG TO MAXES/MINS...W6TH CONVECTION THE PRIMARY EFFECT. ..16.. DA .OKC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TDA/TNGT ZNS 014>042...044>046...50. .TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TDA/TNGT ZNS 083...085.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 10:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1045 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1020 AM KNOX CITY TX 21/2 INCH HAIL NORTH SIDE OF 06/4/95 KNOX KNOX CITY. 1040 AM RHINELAND TX 1 INCH HAIL IN RHINELAND. 06/4/95 KNOX J
Local storm report, Jun 4, 10:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1045 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1020 ATM KNOX CITY TX 21/2 INCH HAIL NORTH SIDE OF 06/4/95 KNOX KNOX CITY. 1040 AM RHINELAND TX 1 INCH HAIL IN RHINELAND. 06/4/95 KNOX J
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
OKZ004>053-TXZ083>090-051100- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1230 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE MODERATE RISK AREA IS LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM ALVA...TO OKLAHOMA CITY...TO MARIETTA. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA THROUGH TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OF RAIN-COOLED AIR FROM OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LIES NEAR THE RED RIVER EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN STATIONARY OR MOVE SLOWLY NORTH INTO SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING NEAR THIS BOUNDARY AND ALSO NEAR A DRY LINE IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NORTHEAST INTO OKLAHOMA. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE EXTREMELY UNSTABLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH WINDS WHICH VARY FROM SOUTHEAST NEAR THE GROUND TO SOUTHWEST IN MID-LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL PROVIDE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE WESTERN ONE-HALF OF OKLAHOMA AND ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO OCCUR AND FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY. BSC
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 12:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
OKZ004>053-TXZ083>090-051100- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1230 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE MODERATE RISK AREA IS LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM ALVA...TO OKLAHOMA CITY...TO MARIETTA. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA THROUGH TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OF RAIN-COOLED AIR FROM OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LIES NEAR THE RED RIVER EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN STATIONARY OR MOVE SLOWLY NORTH INTO SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING NEAR THIS BOUNDARY AND ALSO NEAR A DRY LINE IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NORTHEAST INTO OKLAHOMA. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE EXTREMELY UNSTABLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH WINDS WHICH VARY FROM SOUTHEAST NEAR THE GROUND TO SOUTHWEST IN MID-LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL PROVIDE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE WESTERN ONE-HALF OF OKLAHOMA AND ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO OCCUR AND FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY. BSC
Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
100 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 PM HOLLIS OK SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS
06/4/95 HARMON TORRIENTIAL RAIN WITH
FLOODING ALL OVER THE AREA.
1255 PM GRANITE OK HWY 6 SOUTH OF GRANITE
06/4/95 GREER WASHED OUT. WATER ALL AROUND
THE AREA.
JLocal storm report, Jun 4, 1:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
100 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 PM HOLLIS OK SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS
06/4/95 HARMON TORRIENTIAL RAIN WITH
FLOODING ALL OVER THE AREA.
1255 PM GRANITE OK HWY 6 SOUTH OF GRANITE
06/4/95 GREER WASHED OUT. WATER ALL AROUND
THE AREA.
JThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 10:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 10:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 12:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman, Wilbarger | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wichita | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 5:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Foard | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Hardeman, Wilbarger | 3 hr |
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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.