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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Norman, OK

July 7, 2024Dewey County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2024, 5:10 AM CDT for Dewey County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 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: Jul 7, 2024, 5:10 AM CDT (10:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2024, 9:09 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Dewey County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 Jul 7, 2:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 3:08 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:15 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:31 AM CDT, 39 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
Jul 6, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	35 min
Jul 6, 11:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper, Woodward	38 min
Jul 7, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	44 min
Jul 7, 1:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward	37 min
Jul 7, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	42 min
Jul 7, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Major	34 min
Jul 7, 2:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	40 min
Jul 7, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills	49 min
Jul 7, 3:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher	32 min
Jul 7, 3:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Dewey	3 hr
Jul 7, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	28 min
Jul 7, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	30 min
Jul 7, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Woodward	29 min
Jul 7, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	35 min
Jul 7, 5:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	3 hr
Jul 7, 6:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Oklahoma	49 min
Jul 7, 6:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	3 hr
Jul 7, 6:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	3 hr
Jul 7, 7:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	3 hr
Jul 7, 7:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	37 min
Jul 7, 8:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	3 hr
Jul 7, 9:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Dewey	111 min
Jul 7, 9:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	33 min
Jul 7, 9:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	5 hr
Jul 7, 9:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jul 7, 9:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	4 hr
Jul 7, 9:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	34 min
Jul 7, 10:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	3 hr
Jul 7, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	26 min
Jul 7, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	43 min
Jul 7, 11:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal, Hughes	51 min
Jul 7, 11:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc	3 hr
Jul 7, 12:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	27 min
Jul 7, 2:37 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	13 hr
Jul 7, 3:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian	3 hr
Jul 7, 4:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Washita	3 hr
Jul 7, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	37 min
Jul 7, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	38 min
Jul 7, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	30 min
Jul 7, 5:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	3 hr
Jul 7, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	49 min
Jul 7, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Grady, McClain	38 min
Jul 7, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	25 min
Jul 7, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harmon	23 min
Jul 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	52 min
Jul 7, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	49 min
Jul 7, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	34 min
Jul 7, 6:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Grady, McClain	4 hr
Jul 7, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa	43 min
Jul 7, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain	40 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.