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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Norman, OK

June 19, 1999Caddo County, Grady County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1999, 5:26 PM CDT for Caddo County, Grady 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
Jun 19, 1999, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1999, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Caddo County, OK, Grady County, OK

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 Jun 19, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
330 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1999

A FAIRLY SUBSTANTIAL MESS LIES ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA THIS
AFTERNOON.  A WEAK LOW IS JUST NORTH OF HOBART... AND A RATHER
STRONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY EXTENDS ROUGHLY FROM CORDELL TO LAKE
TEXOMA.  WIDESPREAD CLOUDINESS FROM THE MORNING CONVECTIVE COMPLEX
REMAINS OVER MUCH OF THE EASTERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA... AS
BRAND NEW STORMS DEVELOP NEAR THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY.  TEMPERATURES
VARY DRAMATICALLY FROM THE MID 60S NEAR PONCA CITY TO THE MID 90S AT
ALTUS.

HAVE GENERALLY SIDED WITH THE ETA MODEL FOR MOST FORECAST
PARAMETERS.  EXPECT THE SURFACE LOW TO DISSIPATE OVERNIGHT AS
GENERALLY SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW SETS IN.

RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT ARE BASED MAINLY ON THE LOCATION OF MESOSCALE
FEATURES... WHILE LATER PERIODS ARE BASED MOSTLY ON ETA POSITIONING
OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE.  SINCE A WEAKNESS IN THE UPPER RIDGE IS
FORECAST BY ALL MODELS THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST PERIODS... FEEL THAT
THE RIDGE WILL NOT BE SUFFICIENT TO STIFLE ALL RAIN CHANCES.  HIGHER
POPS WILL BE IN THE SOUTH... WHERE MOST OF THE MOISTURE IS FORECAST
TO HANG OUT.  HAVE ALSO OPTED TO INCLUDE 20 PERCENTS TOMORROW AND
MONDAY FOR THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE FORECAST AREA... DUE TO THE
POSSIBILITY OF A STAMPEDING MCS COMING DOWN FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS.

HAVE ALSO ADDED POPS... 20 PERCENT... TO MUCH OF THE EXTENDED
PERIODS... EXCEPT IN THE NORTH.  AGAIN... THIS IS DUE MAINLY TO THE
PROBABLE INABILITY OF THE UPPER RIDGE TO ELIMINATE ALL PRECIPITATION.

TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM SLOWLY OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.  HAVE SCALED
THE WARMUP BACK A BIT FROM THE PREVIOUS FORECAST... DUE MOSTLY TO
THE RAIN RISK THING.

FCSTID = 23 = CMS

OKC   68  85  69  90 /  30  30  20  30
HBR   66  89  67  90 /  40  10  20  20
SPS   70  89  70  90 /  40  40  40  40
GAG   64  89  67  90 /  10  10  10  10
PNC   63  82  67  86 /  10  20  20  20
DUA   63  85  68  88 /  40  50  40  30

.OUN...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
OKZ004-009-010-014>016-021-022-033>036-201130-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
12 30 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1999

THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SEVERE CAN BE EXPECTED SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM ADA TO CHICKASHA TO CHEYENNE. THIS INCLUDES ALL OF SOUTHERN
OKLAHOMA AS WELL AS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN
THREAT.

DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS EASTERN
OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OF COOL AIR FROM
THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIE ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA DURING
THE AFTERNOON. THIS BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO ACT TO PROVIDE LIFT FOR
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DURING THE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY
EVENING HOURS.

THE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS IS RELATIVELY
UNSTABLE...BUT WIND SHEAR IS RELATIVELY WEAK. THUS THE STRONGEST
STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HAIL SMALLER THAN
DIME SIZE. THE STORMS SHOULD ALSO BE SHORT-LIVED.

PURPURA
Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:54 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis39 min
Jun 18, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis42 min
Jun 18, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills60 min
Jun 18, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis66 min
Jun 18, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills45 min
Jun 18, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Woodward27 min
Jun 18, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Woodward45 min
Jun 19, 4:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Noble53 min
Jun 19, 5:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Kay, Noble48 min
Jun 19, 6:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKay, Noble3 hr
Jun 19, 9:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKay3 hr
Jun 19, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens52 min
Jun 19, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson, Stephens42 min
Jun 19, 4:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNJefferson, Stephens3 hr
Jun 19, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady49 min
Jun 19, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson52 min
Jun 19, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer40 min
Jun 19, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Grady47 min
Jun 19, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Washita45 min
Jun 19, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita34 min
Jun 19, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo36 min
Jun 19, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay34 min
Jun 19, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay38 min

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.