Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Norman, OK

Issued

Oct 22, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)

Expired

Oct 23, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Norman, OK

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Caddo County, OK

The Norman radar (KTLX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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.

000 
WGUS54 KOUN 230317
FFWOUN
OKC015-230615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1015 PM CDT SUN OCT 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN AND EASTERN CADDO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1015 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT RAINFALL OF 3 TO 4
  INCHES HAS FALLEN ALONG A LINE FROM GRACEMONT TO ANADARKO TO
  BOONE.  THUNDERSTORMS WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ARE
  CONTINUING TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST THROUGH CADDO COUNTY AS OF
  1015 PM.  FLOODING IS BEING REPORTED IN ANADARKO.  WATER IS TO THE
  TOP OF CAR TIRES AT SECOND AND CENTRAL IN ANADARKO.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ANADARKO...APACHE...BOONE...
  GRACEMONT AND STECKER

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 CAU7GHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3527 9833 3487 9860 3487 9831 3511 9809
          3533 9808

...SPEG.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 22, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
830 PM CDT SUN OCT 22 2000

SEVERE T-STORMS CONTINUE IN CENTRAL OK WITH STORMS INCREASING BACK
INTO SW OK AND N CENTRAL TX. SITUATION EXPECTED TO EVOLVE INTO MORE
OF A HEAVY RAIN/FLOOD THREAT OVERNIGHT FROM SW INTO CENTRAL PARTS OF
AREA AS TRAINING CONTINUES. WE WILL ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR REST
OF THE NIGHT FOR TX ZONES AND MUCH OF CENTRAL/SW OK.

24

.OUN...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT OKZ018>020-023>032-035>047-050-051.
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT TXZ083>090.

In the hours before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
619 PM CDT SUN OCT 22 2000

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

0510 PM    LAWTON                    OK   60 MPH WIND GUST
10/22/00   COMANCHE                       COUNTY SHERIFF

0536 PM    5 S CALUMET               OK   TORNADO
10/22/00   CANADIAN                       NWS EMPLOYEE

0545 PM    2 W CYRIL                 OK   .75 INCH HAIL
10/22/00   CADDO                          AMATEUR RADIO

0552 PM    4 S ANADARKO              OK   60 MPH WIND GUST
10/22/00   CADDO                          yAMATEUR RADIO

FM

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
932 PM CDT SUN OCT 22 2000

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

0425 PM    5 E BINGER                OK   TORNADO
10/22/00   CADDO                          OHP REPORT

0555 PM    1 W RUSH SPRINGS          OK   .88 INCH HAIL
10/22/00   GRADY                          GRADY CO EOC

0705 PM    VALLEY BROOK              OK   TORNADO
10/22/00   OKLAHOMA                       VALLEY BROOK PD

0630 PM    3 W STONEWALL             OK   TORNADO
10/22/00   PONTOTOC                       AMATEUR RADIO REPORT

0905 PM    CHANDLER                  OK   60 MPH WIND GUST
10/22/00   LINCOLN                        LINCOLN CO EOC

FM

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.