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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2012, 3:20 PM CDT for Carter County, Love 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2012, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Carter County, OK, Love County, OK
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1946 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
620
WGUS54 KOUN 062020
FFWOUN
OKC019-085-062315-
/O.NEW.KOUN.FF.W.0007.120606T2020Z-120606T2315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
320 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CARTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...
LOVE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND RAIN GAUGES
INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE AREA. NEARLY TWO
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR RINGLING BETWEEN 230 AND 315 PM.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 35.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE
ARDMORE...LONE GROVE...HEALDTON...WILSON...MARIETTA...THACKERVILLE...
RATLIFF CITY...LEON...BURNEYVILLE...OVERBROOK...RUBOTTOM...LAKE
MURRAY...GRAHAM AND MILO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE
USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS
POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING
FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
&&
LAT...LON 3376 9720 3382 9721 3385 9716 3392 9721
3382 9737 3383 9746 3391 9747 3391 9755
3448 9755 3428 9719 3395 9696 3395 9700
3385 9701 3385 9709 3382 9705 3380 9710
3372 9711
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Bryan | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 1:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Murray | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Cotton | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 1:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 1:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Dewey | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Love, Murray | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 66 min |
| Jun 6, 3:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Custer, Washita | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Love, Murray | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 4:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.