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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Norman, OK

May 3, 2024Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 2024, 4:04 AM CDT for Pontotoc 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 3, 2024, 4:04 AM CDT (09:04 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2024, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Pontotoc County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 1641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

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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 3, 2:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 9:04 PM CDT, 7 hours before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 3, 12:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 1:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 1:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 2:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 3:23 AM CDT, 41 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 2, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	37 min
May 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	31 min
May 2, 8:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	3 hr
May 2, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	48 min
May 2, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	26 min
May 2, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	27 min
May 2, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	48 min
May 2, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	46 min
May 2, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Lincoln	62 min
May 2, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	34 min
May 2, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	46 min
May 2, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Okfuskee	38 min
May 2, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	51 min
May 2, 11:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	3 hr
May 2, 11:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	27 min
May 2, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	49 min
May 2, 11:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Hughes	3 hr
May 3, 1:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	32 min
May 3, 1:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	26 min
May 3, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	29 min
May 3, 2:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	25 min
May 3, 3:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
May 3, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	37 min
May 3, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	30 min
May 3, 8:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	28 hr
May 3, 1:19 PM CDT	Flood Watch	OUN	Alfalfa, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 32 more	48 hr
May 3, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harmon	37 min
May 2, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	38 min
May 2, 8:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	24 min
May 2, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Wilbarger	38 min
May 2, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Wilbarger	44 min
May 2, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	52 min
May 2, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	26 min
May 2, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard	24 min
May 2, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman, Wilbarger	48 min
May 2, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hardeman	29 min
May 2, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard	29 min
May 2, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	41 min
May 2, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	24 min
May 2, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Wilbarger	33 min
May 2, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	41 min
May 2, 11:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	26 min
May 3, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	31 min
May 3, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	26 min
May 3, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	47 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.