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Flash Flood Warning 137, NWS Norman, OK

July 24, 2025Woodward County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2025, 11:48 PM CDT for Woodward 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: Jul 24, 2025, 11:48 PM CDT (04:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1193 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 24, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 9:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 9:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:51 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 11:26 PM CDT, 22 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 24, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	24 min
Jul 24, 7:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woodward	3 hr
Jul 24, 7:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major	3 hr
Jul 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	33 min
Jul 24, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Grant	43 min
Jul 24, 8:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	3 hr
Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Major, Noble	3 hr
Jul 24, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Major	43 min
Jul 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	32 min
Jul 24, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garfield	3 hr
Jul 24, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	47 min
Jul 24, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	26 min
Jul 24, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	36 min
Jul 24, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	34 min
Jul 24, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	30 min
Jul 24, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harmon	37 min
Jul 24, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	24 min
Jul 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	34 min
Jul 24, 11:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woodward	3 hr
Jul 24, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	33 min
Jul 25, 12:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Roger Mills	3 hr
Jul 25, 12:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	25 min
Jul 25, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	24 min
Jul 25, 1:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	3 hr
Jul 25, 1:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	33 min
Jul 25, 2:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Dewey	3 hr
Jul 25, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	33 min
Jul 25, 2:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woodward	2 hr
Jul 25, 12:35 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 34 more	31 hr
Jul 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	29 min
Jul 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	24 min
Jul 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	30 min
Jul 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kingfisher	37 min
Jul 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	19 min
Jul 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	27 min
Jul 25, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	29 min
Jul 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	21 min
Jul 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	13 min
Jul 25, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	25 min
Jul 25, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	36 min
Jul 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	15 min
Jul 25, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard	22 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.