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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Norman, OK

July 17, 2014Cotton County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this river flood warning at Jul 17, 2014, 10:17 AM CDT for Cotton County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Jul 17, 2014, 11:16 AM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2014, 10:17 AM CDT (15:17 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 17, 2014, 11:16 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 18, 2014, 2:23 PM CDT
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Cotton County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 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.

The river

Written for the forecast point Deep Red Creek near Randlett (RNDO2).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07311500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Jul 17, 6:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 6:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 11:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson	3 hr
Jul 16, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	50 min
Jul 16, 11:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	3 hr
Jul 16, 11:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jul 17, 12:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	47 min
Jul 17, 1:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cotton	7 hr
Jul 17, 3:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	3 hr
Jul 17, 4:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	22 hr
Jul 17, 4:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
Jul 17, 5:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	3 hr
Jul 17, 6:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	4 hr
Jul 16, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard	29 min
Jul 16, 11:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wilbarger	2 hr
Jul 17, 2:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Clay	2 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2014 Every river flood warning in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.