Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Oct 26, 2000, 8:17 PM CDT for 5 counties in 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
- Oct 26, 2000, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carter County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOUN 270125 COR FFWOKC OKC019-049-067-099-137-270415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR UGC CODING ERROR... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 817 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA GARVIN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA MURRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA STEPHENS COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 817 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL OVER A LARGE PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THESE HEAVY RAINFALL RATES ON TOP OF SATURATED CONDITIONS FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL... WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING ACROSS PARTS OF STEPHENS... JEFFERSON... GARVIN... MURRAY... AND CARTER COUNTIES. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ADDINGTON...ARDMORE...BRAY... COMANCHE...CORNISH...DAVIS...DOUGHERTY...DUNCAN...ELMORE CITY... FOSTER...GENE AUTRY...GRADY...GRAHAM...HEALDTON...LOCO...LONE GROVE...MARLOW...MILO...PAULS VALLEY...PERNELL...POOLEVILLE... RATLIFF CITY...RINGLING...SPRINGER...TATUMS...TURNER FALLS... VELMA...WILSON AND WYNNEWOOD 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 CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson | 26 min |
| Oct 26, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 24 min |
| Oct 27, 3:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Logan | 2 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Oct 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Oct 27, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.