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Flood Watch 13, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flood watch at Oct 14, 2018, 2:56 PM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma; Archer County, Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2018, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Oct 14, 2:47 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 2:47 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 9:27 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Murray | 116 min |
| Oct 14, 2:52 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 11 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Wichita | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Oklahoma, 2018Flood Watches in Texas, 2018Every flood watch in 2018
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.