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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Norman, OK

June 2, 2023Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2023, 2:17 PM CDT for Woods 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: Jun 2, 2023, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2023, 5:06 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Woods County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 2, 1:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 1:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 4:18 AM CDT, 9 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:49 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:54 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:57 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:09 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:14 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:17 PM CDT, 0 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 1, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	30 min
Jun 2, 3:12 AM CDT	Flood Watch	OUN	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 19 more	24 hr
Jun 2, 10:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	35 min
Jun 2, 11:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	13 min
Jun 2, 11:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	17 min
Jun 2, 12:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	13 min
Jun 2, 12:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	26 min
Jun 2, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	32 min
Jun 2, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	24 min
Jun 2, 12:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	37 min
Jun 2, 12:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	21 min
Jun 2, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	34 min
Jun 2, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	26 min
Jun 2, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	20 min
Jun 2, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	13 min
Jun 2, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	25 min
Jun 2, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	16 min
Jun 2, 1:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woods	3 hr
Jun 2, 1:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	19 min
Jun 2, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	14 min
Jun 2, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	26 min
Jun 2, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	21 min
Jun 2, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	18 min
Jun 2, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	21 min
Jun 2, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	16 min
Jun 2, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	13 min
Jun 2, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	23 min
Jun 2, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	22 min
Jun 2, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	32 min
Jun 2, 2:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Custer, Dewey	3 hr
Jun 2, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	16 min
Jun 2, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	25 min
Jun 2, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	14 min
Jun 2, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	35 min
Jun 2, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	31 min
Jun 2, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	36 min
Jun 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	14 min
Jun 2, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	26 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	18 min
Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	3 hr
Jun 2, 5:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woods	9 min
Jun 2, 5:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Major	3 hr
Jun 2, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	6 hr
Jun 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	24 min
Jun 2, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper, Woodward	34 min
Jun 2, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham, Harmon	34 min
Jun 2, 6:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Custer	6 hr

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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.