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Areal Flood Warning 13, NWS Norman, OK

June 12, 20169 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this areal flood warning at Jun 12, 2016, 6:36 PM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 12 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: Jun 12, 2016, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2016, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 4:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
443 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-132145-
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-
443 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

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

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT...

.THUNDERSTORMS...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE
AREA THROUGH EARLY MONDAY. THE GREATEST CHANCE WILL BE IN PARTS OF
SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... ALONG WITH PORTIONS OF
NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. HEAVY RAIN THAT COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING... GUSTY WINDS... AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE THE
MAIN CONCERNS. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

.THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO BE A HAZARD WITH ANY STORMS. ON
TUESDAY...THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER NORTH AND
EAST OF A LINE FROM WOODWARD... TO LAWTON... TO PAULS VALLEY... TO
ADA OKLAHOMA.

.HEAT...
INCREASING TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN HIGH
AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES FROM TUESDAY ONWARD...REACHING 100 TO 105
AT TIMES ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.

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

30/26/25

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 1:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 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
Jun 11, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	27 min
Jun 11, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	55 min
Jun 11, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	17 min
Jun 12, 2:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	51 min
Jun 12, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	McClain	59 min
Jun 12, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	42 min
Jun 12, 2:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	McClain	61 min
Jun 12, 3:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Washita	45 min
Jun 12, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	43 min
Jun 12, 3:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain	65 min
Jun 12, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter, Murray	62 min
Jun 12, 4:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Washita	48 min
Jun 12, 4:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	43 min
Jun 12, 4:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	56 min
Jun 12, 4:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pottawatomie	64 min
Jun 12, 4:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	62 min
Jun 12, 5:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	45 min
Jun 12, 5:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Johnston, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 12, 5:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	3 hr
Jun 12, 5:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	53 min
Jun 12, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	33 min
Jun 12, 5:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Grady	3 hr
Jun 12, 5:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 12, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	33 min
Jun 12, 6:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, McClain	3 hr
Jun 12, 6:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Stephens	3 hr
Jun 12, 7:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	26 min
Jun 12, 7:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	4 hr
Jun 12, 7:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	25 min
Jun 12, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Grady, Stephens	38 min
Jun 12, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	27 min
Jun 12, 7:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	OUN	Garvin, McClain	4 hr
Jun 12, 8:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, McClain and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka	3 hr
Jun 12, 10:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	OUN	Comanche, Grady, Stephens	3 hr
Jun 12, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	48 min
Jun 12, 10:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Stephens	3 hr
Jun 12, 11:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	3 hr
Jun 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	6 days
Jun 12, 12:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, McClain and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 12, 12:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	8 hr
Jun 12, 12:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	3 hr
Jun 12, 1:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Stephens	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	6 hr
Jun 12, 2:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grady	17 hr
Jun 12, 2:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, McClain and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 12, 3:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:27 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	11 hr
Jun 12, 6:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	36 min
Jun 12, 5:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	56 min

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.