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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Norman, OK

June 7, 2018Foard County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2018, 5:59 PM CDT for Foard County, Texas. 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: Jun 7, 2018, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2018, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Foard County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -347 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 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 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 Jun 7, 5:36 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 5:36 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 3:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 7, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:09 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:29 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:43 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:47 PM CDT, 12 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 7, 1:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	52 min
Jun 7, 2:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	61 min
Jun 7, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	25 min
Jun 7, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	31 min
Jun 7, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	32 min
Jun 7, 4:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	23 min
Jun 7, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	25 min
Jun 7, 4:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major	32 min
Jun 7, 5:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Major	36 min
Jun 7, 5:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Major, Woods	3 hr
Jun 7, 5:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	34 min
Jun 7, 5:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	31 min
Jun 7, 5:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher	49 min
Jun 7, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	34 min
Jun 7, 6:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major	3 hr
Jun 7, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher	47 min
Jun 7, 7:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay, Logan, Noble	40 min
Jun 7, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	31 min
Jun 7, 7:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Kay, Noble, Payne	3 hr
Jun 7, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne	37 min
Jun 7, 8:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Logan, Noble, Payne	3 hr
Jun 7, 8:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	32 min
Jun 7, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	29 min
Jun 7, 8:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Logan, Noble, Payne	5 hr
Jun 7, 8:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	46 min
Jun 7, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	34 min
Jun 7, 8:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	118 min
Jun 7, 8:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	24 min
Jun 7, 8:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	37 min
Jun 7, 8:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo	2 hr
Jun 7, 8:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	47 min
Jun 7, 9:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	38 min
Jun 7, 9:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	2 hr
Jun 7, 9:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	34 min
Jun 7, 9:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	43 min
Jun 7, 9:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	32 min
Jun 7, 9:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	41 min
Jun 7, 9:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	54 min
Jun 7, 9:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	2 hr
Jun 7, 10:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	35 min
Jun 7, 10:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	42 min
Jun 7, 10:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	32 min
Jun 7, 10:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	28 min
Jun 7, 10:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	23 min
Jun 7, 10:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	50 min
Jun 7, 10:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	119 min
Jun 7, 10:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland	37 min
Jun 7, 11:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	McClain	35 min
Jun 7, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	45 min
Jun 7, 11:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	115 min
Jun 7, 11:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	35 min
Jun 7, 11:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Cleveland, Grady, McClain	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Grady	29 min
Jun 7, 11:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	34 min
Jun 7, 12:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie	116 min
Jun 7, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	40 min
Jun 7, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	McClain	31 min
Jun 7, 12:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	31 min
Jun 7, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Stephens	39 min
Jun 7, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	31 min
Jun 7, 12:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie	119 min
Jun 7, 1:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, McClain and 2 more	4 hr
Jun 7, 1:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Stephens	26 min
Jun 7, 1:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens	116 min
Jun 7, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	35 min
Jun 7, 2:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Cleveland, Comanche, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jun 7, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter, Murray	33 min
Jun 7, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	41 min
Jun 7, 2:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	3 hr
Jun 7, 2:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	12 hr
Jun 7, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall	40 min
Jun 7, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	38 min
Jun 7, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Marshall	34 min
Jun 7, 3:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	3 hr
Jun 7, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	38 min
Jun 7, 3:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Bryan, Marshall	3 hr
Jun 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	30 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.