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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2010, 5:50 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
- Jul 6, 2010, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2010, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Grady County, OK, McClain County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 1516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 326 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2010 .DISCUSSION... DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY/CONVERGENCE LINE HAS LEAD TO LINE OF CONVECTION ACROSS SOUTHEAST PART OF AREA WITH MORE SCATTERED ACTIVITY ELSEWHERE. MUCH OF THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. WILL MAINTAIN SOME CHANCE POPS INTO THE EVENING AND KEEP SOME LOW POPS MOST LOCALES OVERNIGHT AS MOISTURE PLUME CONT TO RESIDE OVER THE AREA. AS WE GET INTO TOMORROW... MOISTURE PLUME IS STILL PRESENT AND BEGINS TO GET AUGMENTED BY MOISTURE MOVING NORTHWEST FROM SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS LA INTO EAST TX THIS AFTN. SO WILL BEGIN TO SEE INCREASE AGAIN IN OPPORTUNITY FOR RAIN... AND HEAVY RAIN AT THAT AS STEERING FLOW REMAINS WEAK AND PRECIP WATER AGAIN APPROACHES 2.5IN. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONT TO BE MAIN THREAT/IMPACT FOR THU INTO FRI AS THIS MOISTURE RICH AIRMASS COMBINES WITH ANOTHER APPROACHING SFC FRONT TO CREATE VERY FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT. HOWEVER... MODELS DO DIFFER IN LOCATION OF WHERE THIS HEAVIER PRECIP WILL OCCUR. NAM BRINGS GULF COAST SYSTEM FURTHER NORTHWEST THROUGH CENTRAL INTO WESTERN OK LATE THU INTO FRI AS IT SLOWS SE PROGRESSION OF SFC FRONT DOWN. WHERE THE GFS IS MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH SFC FRONT... PUSHING IT TO NEAR THE RED RIVER BY LATE THU INTO FRI. NAM MAKES A LITTLE MORE SENSE AS SYSTEM TO OUR SE APPEARS TO BE STRONGER ON SATELLITE THAN WHAT THE GFS GIVES IT CREDIT. ALSO... TAIL END OF SFC FRONT SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST NORTHWEST PROGRESSION OF IT AS MAIN PUSH WITH THE FRONT WILL REMAIN WELL NORTH OF THE AREA WITH MAIN WESTERLIES. THIS WOULD TEND TO PUT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN SECTIONS UNDER THE GUN FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN. ON THE OTHER HAND... THE GFS WOULD INDICATE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44 WILL HAVE THE HIGHER CHANCE OF MORE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AT THE END OF THE WEEK. THIS ALSO IS IN AGREEMENT WITH HPC. WILL TREND TOWARD THIS SOLUTION AT THIS TIME. MAIN POINT IS THAT WITH EITHER MODEL THERE APPEARS TO BE A HIGH PROBABILITY OF SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AGAIN OCCURRING SOMEWHERE IN THE STATE INTO PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS WEEK. MAY SEE SOMEWHAT OF A LULL IN THE ACTIVITY OVER THE WEEKEND BEFORE YET ANOTHER FRONT MOVES SOUTH INTO THE AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73 88 72 88 / 40 50 40 60 HOBART OK 71 90 70 88 / 20 30 30 50 WICHITA FALLS TX 73 92 73 89 / 20 40 30 50 GAGE OK 67 87 65 83 / 20 20 40 60 PONCA CITY OK 72 85 70 86 / 40 50 50 60 DURANT OK 73 88 74 87 / 50 70 40 70 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 32/30
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 5:00 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1255 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2010
OKZ041-042-047-051-052-061815-
BRYAN OK-MURRAY OK-JOHNSTON OK-MARSHALL OK-PONTOTOC OK-
1255 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2010
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR BRYAN...JOHNSTON...
MARSHALL...MURRAY AND PONTOTOC COUNTIES.
AT 1252 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR ADA...
SOUTH TO TISHOMINGO... MADILL... DURANT AND LAKE TEXOMA WILL MOVE
SLOWLY NORTH.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WIND GUSTS 45 TO 50 MPH...
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...
LAT...LON 3374 9629 3386 9662 3389 9660 3391 9667
3388 9668 3396 9693 3401 9693 3401 9697
3418 9697 3419 9693 3440 9696 3485 9685
3491 9678 3486 9671 3488 9668 3493 9669
3488 9656 3461 9650 3444 9652 3442 9646
CJSSpecial weather statement, Jul 6, 1:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Roger Mills | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 1:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Pontotoc | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Payne | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Canadian, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.