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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Norman, OK

May 2, 2024Carter County, Murray County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2024, 2:42 AM CDT for Carter County, Murray 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: May 2, 2024, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2024, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Carter County, OK, Murray County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 1590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.2

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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 May 2, 2:26 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:26 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 2:34 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 12:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 12:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 12:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 1:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 1:56 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 2:24 AM CDT, 18 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, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Washita	31 min
May 1, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	23 min
May 1, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	42 min
May 1, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Washita	38 min
May 1, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	49 min
May 1, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer, Kiowa	27 min
May 1, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	56 min
May 1, 11:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche	3 hr
May 1, 11:18 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer and 16 more	8 hr
May 1, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman	39 min
May 1, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	50 min
May 1, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	30 min
May 2, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman	39 min
May 2, 12:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	3 hr
May 2, 12:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche	3 hr
May 2, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, Stephens	51 min
May 2, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Grady	47 min
May 2, 1:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Stephens	3 hr
May 2, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Murray, Stephens	44 min
May 2, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	25 min
May 2, 1:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	34 min
May 2, 2:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Murray, Stephens	3 hr
May 2, 2:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Murray	36 min
May 2, 3:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	3 hr
May 2, 8:03 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	25 hr
May 2, 8:19 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	18 hr
May 2, 1:14 PM CDT	Flood Watch	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 7 more	18 hr
May 2, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	26 min
May 2, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	35 min
May 2, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	28 min
May 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	31 min
May 2, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	33 min
May 1, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	18 min
May 1, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Foard, Knox	39 min
May 1, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Wilbarger	67 min
May 1, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	55 min
May 2, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	29 min
May 2, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Baylor, Knox	41 min
May 2, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	34 min
May 2, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	17 min
May 2, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	48 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.