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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Norman, OK

June 30, 2024Garfield County, Grant County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2024, 6:16 AM CDT for Garfield County, Grant 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 30, 2024, 6:16 AM CDT (11:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2024, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -506 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 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 30, 3:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 5:38 AM CDT, 38 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 29, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	43 min
Jun 29, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	40 min
Jun 29, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble	19 min
Jun 29, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Major	39 min
Jun 29, 7:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	33 min
Jun 29, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher, Major	15 min
Jun 29, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	24 min
Jun 29, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey, Major	43 min
Jun 29, 7:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield	3 hr
Jun 29, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	31 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Major	15 min
Jun 29, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	37 min
Jun 29, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	31 min
Jun 29, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	28 min
Jun 29, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	38 min
Jun 29, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	28 min
Jun 29, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	23 min
Jun 29, 9:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	3 hr
Jun 29, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	34 min
Jun 30, 2:27 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 11 more	17 hr
Jun 30, 4:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	37 min
Jun 30, 6:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	3 hr
Jun 30, 7:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Woods	3 hr
Jun 30, 9:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Grant	3 hr
Jun 30, 10:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woods	3 hr
Jun 30, 2:17 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 29 more	31 hr
Jun 30, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	25 min
Jun 30, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	33 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.