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Flash Flood Warning 98, NWS Norman, OK

November 7, 2024Comanche County, Tillman County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 7, 2024, 7:55 PM CST for Comanche County, Tillman 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: Nov 7, 2024, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 2024, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Comanche County, OK, Tillman County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 Nov 7, 4:57 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 4:57 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 7, 2:20 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 7, 4:34 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 7, 6:16 PM CST, 1 hour 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
Nov 7, 6:16 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	29 min
Nov 7, 6:38 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche	3 hr
Nov 7, 7:23 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Tillman	3 hr
Nov 8, 1:00 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher and 4 more	3 hr
Nov 8, 1:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian	18 hr
Nov 8, 1:37 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	58 hr
Nov 8, 1:41 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	34 hr
Nov 8, 1:57 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	59 hr
Nov 8, 3:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche, Grady, Tillman	37 min
Nov 8, 4:25 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Major and 1 more	3 hr
Nov 8, 6:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	3 hr
Nov 8, 6:53 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Grant	3 hr
Nov 8, 7:19 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
Nov 8, 7:31 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Murray	3 hr
Nov 8, 9:21 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin, Jefferson, Stephens	54 min
Nov 8, 11:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer, Harmon	37 min
Nov 8, 11:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	25 min
Nov 8, 12:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	37 min
Nov 8, 12:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham, Greer	22 min
Nov 8, 12:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	23 min
Nov 8, 1:10 PM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	12 hr
Nov 8, 1:12 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Grant, Kay, Noble	42 hr
Nov 8, 1:14 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Dewey, Major, Woodward	5 days
Nov 8, 1:21 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	24 min
Nov 8, 1:22 PM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Cotton	66 hr
Nov 8, 1:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	37 min
Nov 8, 1:34 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman	3 hr
Nov 8, 1:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	26 min
Nov 8, 1:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	24 min
Nov 8, 1:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	52 min
Nov 8, 1:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	16 min
Nov 8, 1:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman	46 min
Nov 8, 2:13 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson	3 hr
Nov 8, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	50 min
Nov 8, 2:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman	3 hr
Nov 8, 3:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	39 min
Nov 7, 8:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	27 min
Nov 8, 1:02 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	28 min
Nov 8, 1:15 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	12 hr
Nov 8, 1:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	28 min
Nov 8, 1:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	27 min
Nov 8, 6:44 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Clay	2 hr
Nov 8, 7:35 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Clay	3 hr
Nov 8, 10:35 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Knox	3 hr
Nov 8, 12:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	18 min
Nov 8, 1:10 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Baylor, Wilbarger	3 hr
Nov 8, 1:16 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	29 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.