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Flash Flood Warning 147, NWS Norman, OK

August 12, 2025Cotton County, Oklahoma; Archer County, Clay County, Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT for Cotton County, Oklahoma; Archer County, Clay County, Wichita County, Texas. 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: Aug 12, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2025, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cotton County, OK, Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Wichita County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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 Aug 11, 6:34 PM CDT, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 6:34 PM CDT, 8 hours 41 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
Aug 11, 7:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo	3 hr
Aug 11, 8:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo	3 hr
Aug 11, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	32 min
Aug 11, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	28 min
Aug 11, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	33 min
Aug 11, 10:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Bryan	3 hr
Aug 11, 10:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Bryan	3 hr
Aug 11, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	46 min
Aug 12, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	33 min
Aug 12, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kingfisher	31 min
Aug 12, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	32 min
Aug 11, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	30 min
Aug 11, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	36 min
Aug 11, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	31 min
Aug 11, 8:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Baylor	3 hr
Aug 11, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	34 min
Aug 11, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hardeman	28 min
Aug 11, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	36 min
Aug 11, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard	35 min
Aug 12, 1:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	3 hr

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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.