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Flash Flood Warning 151, NWS Norman, OK

August 31, 2025Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2025, 6:21 PM CDT for Pontotoc 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: Aug 31, 2025, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2025, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Pontotoc County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 31, 1:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 1:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 31, 6:09 PM CDT, 12 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 31, 7:30 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	116 min
Aug 31, 2:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Aug 31, 2:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Bryan	3 hr
Aug 31, 2:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
Aug 31, 3:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
Aug 31, 3:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Seminole	27 min
Aug 31, 3:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Hughes	3 hr
Aug 31, 4:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Seminole	3 hr
Aug 31, 5:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
Aug 31, 5:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	3 hr
Aug 31, 6:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc	3 hr
Aug 31, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	21 min
Aug 31, 6:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc	3 hr
Aug 31, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	24 min
Aug 31, 6:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc	2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.