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Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Norman, OK

November 3, 2024Coal County, Johnston County, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2024, 10:33 AM CST for Coal County, Johnston County, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 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: Nov 3, 2024, 10:33 AM CST (16:33 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2024, 1:00 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Coal County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 1168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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 Nov 3, 6:07 AM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 6:07 AM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 3, 9:20 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 3, 9:37 AM CST, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 3, 9:55 AM CST, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 3, 9:58 AM CST, 35 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
Nov 2, 8:12 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Cotton	48 hr
Nov 2, 8:14 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	13 hr
Nov 2, 8:36 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	13 hr
Nov 2, 9:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin, McClain	3 hr
Nov 2, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	25 min
Nov 2, 10:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
Nov 2, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	37 min
Nov 2, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	25 min
Nov 2, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	52 min
Nov 2, 11:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cotton	3 hr
Nov 2, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	28 min
Nov 2, 11:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	3 hr
Nov 2, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	47 min
Nov 2, 11:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	115 min
Nov 3, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	26 min
Nov 3, 12:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	3 hr
Nov 3, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	51 min
Nov 3, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	35 min
Nov 3, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	34 min
Nov 3, 12:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
Nov 3, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	42 min
Nov 3, 12:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	3 hr
Nov 3, 12:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Grady, Stephens	3 hr
Nov 3, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	42 min
Nov 3, 1:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	31 min
Nov 3, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma	43 min
Nov 3, 1:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma	39 min
Nov 3, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	30 min
Nov 3, 1:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan, Payne	3 hr
Nov 3, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	52 min
Nov 3, 1:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	3 hr
Nov 3, 1:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	51 min
Nov 3, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
Nov 3, 1:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	40 min
Nov 3, 1:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	39 min
Nov 3, 1:07 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Stephens	23 min
Nov 3, 1:13 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Nov 3, 1:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	45 min
Nov 3, 1:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	29 min
Nov 3, 1:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Stephens	32 min
Nov 3, 1:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	45 min
Nov 3, 1:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	44 min
Nov 3, 1:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	23 min
Nov 3, 1:41 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Nov 3, 1:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	36 min
Nov 3, 1:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens	49 min
Nov 3, 1:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	32 min
Nov 3, 2:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	45 min
Nov 3, 2:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	43 min
Nov 3, 2:07 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	3 hr
Nov 3, 2:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	23 min
Nov 3, 2:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie	48 min
Nov 3, 2:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Stephens	40 min
Nov 3, 2:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	36 min
Nov 3, 2:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Lincoln, Payne, Pottawatomie, Seminole	49 min
Nov 3, 2:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston, McClain, Murray and 3 more	48 min
Nov 3, 2:53 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	2 hr
Nov 3, 3:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pottawatomie, Seminole	29 min
Nov 3, 3:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray	41 min
Nov 3, 3:23 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan, Payne	112 min
Nov 3, 3:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc and 1 more	50 min
Nov 3, 3:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	49 min
Nov 3, 3:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	15 min
Nov 3, 3:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray	36 min
Nov 3, 3:41 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	26 hr
Nov 3, 3:49 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	86 min
Nov 3, 4:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal, Johnston	32 min
Nov 3, 4:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Love, Marshall	31 min
Nov 3, 4:24 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Murray	3 hr
Nov 3, 6:09 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	16 hr
Nov 3, 7:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	35 min
Nov 3, 7:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	52 min
Nov 3, 8:17 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	3 hr
Nov 3, 8:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	22 hr
Nov 3, 8:40 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	23 hr
Nov 3, 9:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	24 min
Nov 3, 9:09 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	36 min
Nov 3, 9:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	30 min
Nov 3, 9:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	29 min
Nov 3, 9:20 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harmon	25 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.