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Red Flag Warning 25, NWS Norman, OK

May 2, 2022Harmon County, Oklahoma; Foard County, Hardeman County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at May 2, 2022, 3:19 AM CDT for Harmon County, Oklahoma; Foard County, Hardeman County, Texas. It took effect at May 2, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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: May 2, 2022, 3:19 AM CDT (08:19 UTC)
In effect from: May 2, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 2, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

Counties Harmon County, OK, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 1, 10:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 10:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 4:33 PM CDT, 10 hours 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 2, 2:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 2:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 2:27 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 2:28 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 2:35 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 2:59 AM CDT, 20 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
May 1, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	25 min
May 1, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Harper	47 min
May 1, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	42 min
May 1, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	36 min
May 1, 11:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	24 min
May 1, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	38 min
May 1, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	34 min
May 1, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	28 min
May 1, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	31 min
May 2, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	28 min
May 2, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter	26 min
May 2, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland	37 min
May 2, 12:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	36 min
May 2, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	34 min
May 2, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter	23 min
May 2, 1:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	26 min
May 2, 1:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Marshall	30 min
May 2, 1:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	35 min
May 2, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	27 min
May 2, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kingfisher	25 min
May 2, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	30 min
May 2, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	45 min
May 2, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	35 min
May 2, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	33 min
May 2, 2:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	32 min
May 2, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	25 min
May 2, 2:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	31 min
May 2, 3:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	37 min
May 2, 4:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	30 min
May 2, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	31 min
May 2, 5:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	32 min
May 2, 5:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	32 min
May 2, 6:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	40 min
May 2, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	47 min
May 2, 7:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	26 min
May 2, 7:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	24 min
May 2, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	45 min
May 2, 8:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	32 min
May 2, 8:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
May 2, 8:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	49 min
May 2, 8:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	30 min
May 2, 10:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
May 2, 10:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie	3 hr
May 2, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	27 min
May 2, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	35 min
May 2, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward	43 min
May 2, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	51 min
May 2, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major	45 min
May 2, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	25 min
May 2, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	46 min
May 2, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Major	45 min
May 2, 3:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	11 min
May 2, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	42 min
May 2, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	45 min
May 2, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant	44 min
May 2, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	25 min
May 2, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Major, Noble	39 min
May 2, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan	34 min
May 2, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	47 min
May 2, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield	32 min
May 2, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay	43 min
May 2, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	25 min
May 2, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble and 2 more	44 min
May 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	39 min
May 2, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	49 min
May 2, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	47 min
May 2, 5:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan	3 hr
May 2, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	53 min
May 2, 5:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Garfield, Grady, Kay and 9 more	5 hr
May 2, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Oklahoma, Payne	50 min
May 2, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	50 min
May 2, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and 1 more	43 min
May 2, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Payne	25 min
May 2, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	40 min
May 2, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Payne	15 min
May 2, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Payne	47 min
May 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Grady	45 min
May 2, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma and 1 more	51 min
May 1, 10:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Knox	38 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.