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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Norman, OK

November 6, 1996Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 6, 1996, 6:56 PM CST for Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 6, 1996, 6:56 PM CST (00:56 UTC)
Expired: Nov 6, 1996, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Pottawatomie County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -105 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 Nov 6, 3:38 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 3:38 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
330 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996

LEADING EDGE OF COLD FRONT IS STILL MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEASTWARD BUT
IS BECOMING VERY SHALLOW.  PRECIP IS TRAINING ALONG THE STALLED
BOUNDARY ALOFT WHERE THERE IS ENOUGH LIFT.  DO NOT EXPECT PRECIP TO
MOVE MUCH UNTIL UPPER WAVE LIFTS OUT LATER TONIGHT.  WILL ISSUE A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF CURRENT
LINE OF STORMS.  RISK OF SEVERE IS SLIGHT WITH THE POSSIBLITY OF
HAIL...BUT MAIN CONCERN IS HEAVY RAIN.  TEMPS MODERATED BY CLOUDS
TONIGHT THEN CLEARING TOMORROW.

FCSTID = 10
OKC   37  56  32  63 /  90   0   0   0
HBR   37  58  32  64 /  30   0   0   0
SPS   42  60  35  65 /  60   0   0   0
GAG   31  58  29  64 /  20   0   0   0
PNC   37  56  32  63 /  30   0   0   0
DUA   46  54  37  64 /  90  20   0   0

.OKC...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT OKZ028>032-039>043-045>053.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 6, 1:55 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
155 PM CST WED NOV 06 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0140 PM    4 SE CARNEY                OK  0.88 INCH HAIL
11/06/96   LINCOLN

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Nov 6, 2:12 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
215 PM CST WED NOV 06 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    OKLAHOMA CITY              OK  FLOODING
11/06/96   OKLAHOMA                       3.20 INCHES OF RAIN
                                          MEASURED SINCE 7 AM CST
                                          JUST NORTH OF JONES.
                                          WATER COVERING SEVERAL
                                          ROADS BETWEEN JONES AND
                                          ARCADIA ALONG THE INTERSECTION
                                          OF 164TH STREET AND HIWASSEE.

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Nov 6, 2:15 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
215 PM CST WED NOV 06 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    OKLAHOMA CITY              OK  FLOODING
11/06/96   OKLAHOMA                       3.20 INCHES OF RAIN
                                          MEASURED SINCE 7 AM CST
                                          JUST NORTH OF JONES.
                                          WATER COVERING SEVERAL
                                          ROADS BETWEEN JONES AND
                                          ARCADIA ALONG THE INTERSECTION
                                          OF 164TH STREET AND HIWASSEE.

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Nov 6, 3:00 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
300 PM CST WED NOV 06 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    MIDWEST CITYY              OK  STREET FLOODING
11/06/96   OKLAHOMA                       SOUTHEAST 15TH AND MIDWEST HES
                                          BLVD. WATER TO BOTTOM OF CAR
                                          DOORS.

J

Local storm report, Nov 6, 3:00 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
300 PM CST WED NOV 06 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    MIDWEST CITY               OK  STREET FLOODING
11/06/96   OKLAHOMA                       SOUTHEAST 15TH AND MIDWEST
                                          BLVD. WATER TO BOTTOM OF CAR
                                          DOORS.

J

Local storm report, Nov 6, 3:02 PM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
300 PM CST WED NOV 06 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    MIDWEST CITY               OK  STREET FLOODING
11/06/96   OKLAHOMA                       SOUTHEAST 15TH AND MIDWEST
                                          BLVD. WATER TO BOTTOM OF CAR
                                          DOORS.

J

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 6, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	52 min
Nov 6, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	45 min
Nov 6, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	46 min
Nov 6, 8:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Bryan	4 hr
Nov 6, 8:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	52 min
Nov 6, 9:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Choctaw, Pushmataha	3 hr
Nov 7, 12:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Pushmataha	4 hr
Nov 6, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.