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Flash Flood Warning 122, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2015, 9:03 PM CDT for Custer County, Washita 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2015, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Custer County, OK, Washita County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
625 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
.DISCUSSION...
THE 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION FOLLOWS....
&&
.AVIATION...
AT 23Z...A COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED TSRA EXTENDED FROM BETWEEN
KPNC AND KICT TO KWWR. THIS LINE OF TSRA WILL ADVANCE SE THIS
EVENING...BRINGING 2-4 HOURS OF TSRA TO MOST TAF SITES BY 10Z
TONIGHT. AFTER THE INITIAL TSRA...WIDESPREAD SHRA WILL FILL IN
NEAR/N OF THE FRONT. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO STALL ROUGHLY FROM
KLTS-KCHK-KOUN-KSNL. THE RAIN TOMORROW WILL AFFECT MOST OF OK AND
N TX. A FEW TSRA WILL ALSO OCCUR...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO BE TOO
FEW/FAR BETWEEN TO WARRANT MENTION IN THE TAFS. BY
AFTERNOON...+SHRA WILL LIKELY COVER MUCH OF THE AREA FROM KSPS TO
KOKC...BRINGING CEILINGS DOWN TO ROUGHLY 500-800 FT. OUTSIDE THIS
AREA...SHRA/TSRA SHOULD BE LESS INTENSE...AND PERHAPS LESS
EXTENSIVE.
CMS
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 334 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015/
DISCUSSION...
A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
TONIGHT...THEN STALL SOMEWHERE ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND PERHAPS WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL OCCUR ALONG THE FRONT THIS
EVENING...PROBABLY PRODUCING OUTFLOW THAT WILL MOVE OUT AHEAD OF
THE CONVECTION. A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE WILL FAVOR HEAVY
RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS
ALREADY IN EFFECT...AND NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE TO IT THIS
AFTERNOON.
AN UPPER-LEVEL WAVE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REGION
TOMORROW...WHICH WILL SUPPORT WIDESPREAD RAIN AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS AS THE FRONT REMAINS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF OUR
FORECAST AREA...AND WARM MOIST AIR IS FORCED NORTH OVER THE
COOLER AIR NEAR THE SURFACE.
RAIN CHANCES WILL GENERALLY DIMINISH WEDNESDAY AS THE WEATHER
SYSTEMS WEAKEN OVER US...AND WILL DISAPPEAR ENTIRELY BY THE
WEEKEND WITH UPPER-LEVEL RIDGING TAKING OVER. AS IS USUAL...THIS
WILL BRING HOT WEATHER BACK TO NORTH TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA.
AND...WITH THE EXTREMELY WET GROUND...HUMIDITIES WILL BE RATHER
HIGH. ON THE OTHER HAND...THIS WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF DAYTIME
HEATING THAT CAN OCCUR.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK 70 78 63 80 / 60 80 80 50
HOBART OK 68 75 62 84 / 80 90 70 30
WICHITA FALLS TX 75 83 64 85 / 50 80 80 60
GAGE OK 61 72 59 81 / 90 70 20 20
PONCA CITY OK 64 76 63 78 / 90 70 70 40
DURANT OK 74 87 69 85 / 20 40 50 50
&&
.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR OKZ005>042-
044>046.
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR TXZ083>090.
&&
25/23/23Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 320 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-072030- HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD- NOBLE-ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE- BECKHAM-WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN- CLEVELAND-POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON- TILLMAN-COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON- JEFFERSON-CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN- FOARD-WILBARGER-WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY- 320 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... .THUNDERSTORMS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA. LOCATION... THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ALVA AND WOODWARD... TO ARNETT AND THEN ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM HOLLIS AND HOBART... TO WEATHERFORD AND KINGFISHER... TO PERRY OKLAHOMA. THIS INCLUDES PONCA CITY...ENID AND CLINTON. SOUTH OF THE SLIGHT RISK AREA...A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...NORTH OF A SHAWNEE TO NORMAN...LAWTON AND VERNON TEXAS LINE. TIMING... THROUGH 11 PM. IMPACTS... DAMAGING WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING... DISCUSSION... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALTHOUGH WIND SHEAR WILL BE RATHER WEAK...ENOUGH INSTABILITY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR STORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTHWARD DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WITHIN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA SHOULD BE READY FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .FLOODING... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR A LARGE PART OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE WATCH FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... .THUNDERSTORMS.... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY INTO AT LEAST THURSDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WITH LITTLE OR NO RAIN IS EXPECTED FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .FLOODING.... FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Woods | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kay, Noble | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Major | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 7:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garfield | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 8:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine, Custer | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 8:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Major, Noble | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 8:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Kingfisher, Washita | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Washita | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Payne | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 9:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kiowa | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Payne | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 9:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Logan, Washita | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 9:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 10:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Grady, Kiowa, Washita | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Caddo, Grady, Lincoln, Oklahoma | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Comanche, Tillman | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 11:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Kay | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Comanche, Stephens | 25 min |
| Jul 7, 12:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo, Kiowa, Washita | 68 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Custer, Washita | 30 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Murray | 66 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 45 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Cleveland, Garvin, Hughes, McClain, Murray, Pontotoc and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Kiowa, Tillman | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Hughes | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Cleveland, Lincoln, McClain, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 44 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Stephens | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Foard, Knox | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 10:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 25 min |
| Jul 7, 1:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Knox | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger | 6 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.