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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Norman, OK

July 26, 1996Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1996, 10:34 AM CDT for Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1996, 10:34 AM CDT (15:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1996, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Alfalfa County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 26, 4:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 4:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
410 AM CDT FRI JUL 26 1996

CURRENT PRECIPITATION ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA SHOULD MOVE OUT OF
NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA BY LATE MORNING.  ANOTHER, MORE ORGANIZED,
ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TONIGHT AS A SURFACE
LOW ENHANCES UPSLOPE NEAR THE LEE SLOPES IN CO WHERE STORMS WILL
ONCE AGAIN FORM THIS AFTERNOON.  ADDITIONALLY, THE NOSE OF A 40KT
MID LEVEL JET IS FORECAST TO NOSE INTO WESTERN KS EARLY THIS EVENING
PROVIDING THE SHEER FOR LARGER AND LONGER-LIVED STORMS.  THESE WILL
LIKELY MAKE IT INTO AT LEAST NORTHERN OKLAHOMA TONIGHT.  BOTH THE
NGM AND ETA INDICATED A TEMPORARY END TO THE WEAK WAVES ON THE EAST
SIDE OF THE UPPER RIDGE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SO POPS WILL BE SLIGHTLY
LOWER THEN THAN THIS AFTERNOON.

TEMPERATURES WILL BE MUCH AS THEY WERE THURSDAY, EXCEPT COOLER IN
THE MOSTLY CLOUDY AREAS OF THE NORTH.

FCSTID = 9
OKC   89  71  89  71 /  30  40  20  40
HBR   91  70  93  70 /  10  20  10  20
SPS   95  70  94  70 /  20  30  20  30
GAG   86  67  89  65 /  40  70  30  30
PNC   91  71  88  71 / 100  90  30  60
DUA   92  71  91  71 /  10  20  30  40

.OKC...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:55 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 26, 9:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 5:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	3 hr
Jul 26, 7:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	43 min
Jul 26, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin	50 min
Jul 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	35 min
Jul 26, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Murray	42 min
Jul 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	30 min
Jul 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston	36 min
Jul 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	43 min
Jul 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	35 min
Jul 26, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal	21 min
Jul 26, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	45 min
Jul 26, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	35 min
Jul 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	43 min
Jul 26, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	40 min
Jul 26, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Wichita	33 min
Jul 26, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Wichita, Wilbarger	45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.