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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Norman, OK

November 16, 1996Stephens County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 16, 1996, 7:09 PM CST for Stephens 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 16, 1996, 7:09 PM CST (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Nov 16, 1996, 10:15 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stephens County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-11-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1390 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-11-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 430 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
430 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
474 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.9
Supercell composite
18.1

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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 16, 4:08 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 4:08 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 16, 2:25 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
230 PM CST SAT NOV 16 1996

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

215 PM     ENID                       OK  HAIL
11/16/96   GARFIELD                       1.00 INCH HAIL ON THE WEST
                                          SIDE OF ENID.

SC
Local storm report, Nov 16, 2:30 PM CST, 4 hours 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
230 PM CST SAT NOV 16 1996

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

215 PM     ENID                       OK  HAIL
11/16/96   GARFIELD                       1.00 INCH HAIL ON THE WEST
                                          SIDE OF ENID.

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Local storm report, Nov 16, 5:10 PM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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Local storm report, Nov 16, 5:22 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Local storm report, Nov 16, 5:32 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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Local storm report, Nov 16, 5:35 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 16, 6:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Stephens49 min
Nov 16, 6:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie49 min
Nov 16, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens48 min
Nov 16, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson48 min
Nov 16, 7:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes, Pontotoc, Seminole40 min
Nov 16, 7:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Murray61 min
Nov 16, 8:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove66 min
Nov 16, 8:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJohnston50 min
Nov 16, 8:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCoal59 min
Nov 16, 9:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMarshall60 min
Nov 16, 9:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka63 min
Nov 16, 9:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan56 min
Nov 16, 10:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Choctaw48 min
Nov 16, 11:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNChoctaw65 min
Nov 16, 6:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay, Wichita50 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every 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.