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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2019, 1:08 PM CDT for Garfield County, Kay County, Noble 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 3, 2019, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2019, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Garfield County, OK, Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 3, 12:28 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 12:28 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:42 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Norman OK 1242 PM CDT Wed Jul 3 2019 OKZ012-013-018-031815- Garfield OK-Kingfisher OK-Noble OK- 1242 PM CDT Wed Jul 3 2019 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR southeastern Garfield...northern Kingfisher and west central Noble Counties Until 115 PM CDT... AT 1240 PM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Covington, moving northeast at 15 MPH. HAZARDS INCLUDE... Hail up to the size of nickels... Wind gusts to 50 MPH... LAT...LON 3612 9784 3630 9790 3652 9746 3631 9723 TIME...MOT...LOC 1740Z 243DEG 14KT 3630 9759 SIX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Grant | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Grant | 54 min |
| Jul 2, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Noble | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Logan | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kay | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 7:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Alfalfa | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Woods | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Grady | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 10:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garfield | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble, Payne | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 1:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Logan, Noble, Payne | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Logan, Payne | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 2:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Oklahoma | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 3:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Logan, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 3:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 3:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Ellis | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kingfisher | 38 min |
| Jul 3, 4:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Major | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 29 min |
| Jul 3, 4:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Oklahoma | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Ellis | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garfield | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Kingfisher | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garfield | 42 min |
| Jul 3, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Woods | 68 min |
| Jul 3, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kingfisher | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Woodward | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Dewey | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 6:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 8:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Knox | 50 min |
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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.