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River Flood Warning 76, NWS Norman, OK

May 23, 2015Blaine County, Canadian County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this river flood warning at May 23, 2015, 6:54 PM CDT for Blaine County, Canadian County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2015, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2015, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point North Canadian River near Watonga (WATO2).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07239300, 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 May 23, 6:28 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:28 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
628 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

.AVIATION...24/00Z TAF ISSUANCE...
ACTIVE AVIATION PERIOD FOR THIS EVENING... OVERNIGHT AND THROUGH
SUNDAY. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE TAF PERIOD... WITH
IFR CONDITIONS PERSISTING FOR MOST OF THE NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. RAIN
WILL GRADUALLY END FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... BUT
CHANCES REMAIN HIGH THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD.

JTK

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 236 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015/

DISCUSSION...
DANGEROUS SITUATION SETTING UP ACROSS PARTS OF OKLAHOMA AND NORTH
TEXAS AS ROUNDS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
TONIGHT/SUNDAY. MANY RIVERS ARE IN FLOOD AND ADDITIONAL TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL AND RAINFALL RATES OF IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR WILL
CONTINUE TO EXACERBATE THE SITUATION. PLEASE BE CAREFUL. WILL CONT
WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 12Z MONDAY.

THERE IS ALSO A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER... MAINLY ACROSS
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTN AND EVENING. LOW AND
DEEP LAYER SHEAR... HOWEVER INSTABILITY REMAINS RATHER LIMITED
OUTSIDE OF FAR SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA.

PATTERN REMAINS RATHER ACTIVE AS ANOTHER UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL
KEEP A CHANCE OF STORMS AND POSSIBLY SOME SEVERE STORMS IN THE
FORECAST INTO THE DAY ON MONDAY. RAIN CHANCES THEN DECREASE FOR A
COUPLE OF DAYS... HOWEVER THEY DO REMAIN. HIGHER RAIN CHANCES
RETURN BY LATE IN THE WEEK AS YET ANOTHER UPPER SHORTWAVE
APPROACHES BY THE END OF THE WEEK.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK  63  73  62  80 / 100  90  20  30
HOBART OK         61  75  58  81 /  60  50  20  30
WICHITA FALLS TX  63  77  62  81 / 100  80  20  40
GAGE OK           58  76  56  82 /  40  30  20  20
PONCA CITY OK     63  74  61  81 / 100  80  30  20
DURANT OK         66  73  65  79 / 100 100  60  40

&&

.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR OKZ004>048-050>052.

TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR TXZ083>090.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
651 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-250000-
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-
651 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN...
WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...

.FLOODING...
WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS OCCURRING ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN...
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHERN TEXAS. THE FLOOD THREAT
WILL CONTINUE TO BE EXACERBATED WHERE EVER HEAVY RAIN OCCURS...
AND AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL SEE RISES AND ADDITIONAL
FLOODING. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING FLOOD SITUATION. DEADLY FLASH
FLOODING IS LIKELY... WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS... TURN
AROUND DONT DROWN.

.THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE REMAINS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING.
THE SLIGHT RISK IS GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM SAYRE TO
WATONGA TO ENID TO PERRY... AND WEST OF A LINE FROM HOLDENVILLE TO
LAKE TEXOMA. THE SLIGHT RISK INCLUDES ALL OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
A MARGINAL RISK COVERS MOST OF THE REST OF OKLAHOMA. THERE IS A
MEDIUM THREAT FOR TORNADOES... AS LOW STORM BASES... DECENT MOIST
AIR AND SHEAR WILL SUPPORT TORNADO DEVELOPMENT WITH THE STRONGEST
STORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING. HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE AND WIND
GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STATEMENT...
STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS
CENTRAL AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...SHOULD
STAY PREPARED FOR FLOODING AND/OR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

.FLOODING...
HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY...AND POSSIBLY
MONDAY. CONTINUED FLOODING IS LIKELY.

.THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AND
MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH AT LEAST
FRIDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE UNLIKELY AFTER MONDAY.

GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW
OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.

KURTZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 6:07 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
607 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0603 PM     TORNADO          3 N SULPHUR             34.55N 96.98W
05/23/2015                   MURRAY             OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

SC

Local storm report, May 23, 6:09 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
609 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0606 PM     HEAVY RAIN       1 W FORT COBB           35.10N 98.46W
05/23/2015  E0.00 INCH       CADDO              OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            WATER OVER HIGHWAY 9 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF FORT COBB

&&

SC

Local storm report, May 23, 6:12 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
612 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0610 PM     TORNADO          5 N SULPHUR             34.58N 96.98W
05/23/2015                   MURRAY             OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

SC

Special weather statement, May 23, 6:19 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
619 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

OKZ039-040-232345-
GARVIN OK-STEPHENS OK-
619 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN GARVIN AND NORTHEASTERN
STEPHENS COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT...

AT 617 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF
FOSTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...

LAT...LON 3452 9754 3457 9768 3485 9761 3480 9730
TIME...MOT...LOC 2317Z 205DEG 21KT 3461 9760

Local storm report, May 23, 6:22 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
622 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0603 PM     HAIL             YUKON                   35.50N 97.74W
05/23/2015  E1.25 INCH       CANADIAN           OK   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

MDAY

Local storm report, May 23, 6:52 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
652 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0642 PM     FLASH FLOOD      STILLWATER              36.12N 97.06W
05/23/2015                   PAYNE              OK   AMATEUR RADIO

            8 INCHES OF FLOODING UP TO TOP OF TIRES. INTO YARDS AND
            OVER SIDEWALKS.

&&

MDAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 9:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka	6 days
May 23, 6:10 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Dewey, Greer and 6 more	4 hr
May 23, 7:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	36 min
May 23, 8:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	33 min
May 23, 9:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Jefferson	33 hr
May 23, 9:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin	5 days
May 23, 9:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills and 2 more	3 hr
May 23, 9:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer	6 days
May 23, 9:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	50 hr
May 23, 9:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	65 hr
May 23, 9:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Bryan	4 days
May 23, 9:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	26 min
May 23, 10:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	3 hr
May 23, 10:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grady	7 days
May 23, 10:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	32 min
May 23, 11:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills, Washita	3 hr
May 23, 11:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	35 min
May 23, 11:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Harper, Major, Woods, Woodward	3 hr
May 23, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	35 min
May 23, 11:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	35 min
May 23, 12:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	38 min
May 23, 1:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	4 hr
May 23, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	29 min
May 23, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	28 min
May 23, 1:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	3 hr
May 23, 1:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills, Washita	5 hr
May 23, 1:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Major	3 hr
May 23, 2:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Roger Mills, Washita	3 hr
May 23, 2:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Kiowa	61 hr
May 23, 2:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	63 hr
May 23, 2:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Dewey, Major, Woodward	44 hr
May 23, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	29 min
May 23, 3:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	4 days
May 23, 3:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Major	4 hr
May 23, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	28 min
May 23, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kay	3 hr
May 23, 4:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Greer and 3 more	5 hr
May 23, 4:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Custer, Roger Mills	27 hr
May 23, 4:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	3 days
May 23, 4:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady	6 hr
May 23, 4:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	44 hr
May 23, 4:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	12 hr
May 23, 4:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	9 hr
May 23, 4:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	3 hr
May 23, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	25 min
May 23, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady	37 min
May 23, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Grady	23 min
May 23, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	5 hr
May 23, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Canadian, Grady	36 min
May 23, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	33 min
May 23, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	49 min
May 23, 5:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	7 hr
May 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Murray	32 min
May 23, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	31 min
May 23, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	30 min
May 23, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	29 min
May 23, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	25 min
May 23, 6:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Grady, Jackson, Kiowa	7 hr
May 23, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	McClain	29 min
May 23, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	26 min
May 23, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	34 min
May 23, 6:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	6 hr
May 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Stephens	23 min
May 23, 6:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Roger Mills, Washita	6 hr
May 23, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady	25 min
May 23, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	32 min
May 23, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	31 min
May 23, 2:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	33 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.