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Flash Flood Warning 157, NWS Norman, OK

September 21, 2025Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 2025, 8:42 AM CDT for 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
Sep 21, 2025, 8:42 AM CDT (13:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 21, 2025, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Wichita County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2025-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2025-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -171 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1268 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 7:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWashita31 min
Sep 20, 7:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay28 min
Sep 20, 7:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNGarfield, Noble116 min
Sep 20, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay40 min
Sep 20, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant35 min
Sep 20, 7:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWoods35 min
Sep 20, 8:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWoods34 min
Sep 20, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods48 min
Sep 20, 8:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNComanche31 min
Sep 20, 9:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNAlfalfa36 min
Sep 20, 11:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCaddo38 min
Sep 20, 11:40 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCuster, Roger Mills3 hr
Sep 21, 12:26 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCaddo, Washita3 hr
Sep 21, 5:42 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNRoger Mills33 min
Sep 21, 1:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNStephens36 min
Sep 21, 2:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGarvin31 min
Sep 21, 2:53 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCarter, Murray3 hr
Sep 21, 3:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCarter24 min
Sep 21, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Johnston, Marshall49 min
Sep 21, 4:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNMarshall37 min
Sep 21, 4:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNMarshall27 min
Sep 21, 4:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNJohnston26 min
Sep 21, 4:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNMarshall24 min
Sep 21, 4:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNJohnston35 min
Sep 21, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson10 min
Sep 21, 6:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNLove28 min
Sep 21, 6:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCarter33 min
Sep 21, 6:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNMarshall31 min
Sep 21, 2:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWilbarger25 min
Sep 21, 3:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWilbarger33 min
Sep 21, 6:50 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNWichita3 hr
Sep 21, 8:12 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNWichita3 hr
Sep 21, 9:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNArcher, Wichita3 hr
Sep 21, 10:00 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNWichita3 hr
Sep 21, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher35 min
Sep 21, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher39 min
Sep 21, 4:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBaylor34 min
Sep 21, 4:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNClay33 min
Sep 21, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay39 min
Sep 21, 5:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNClay35 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.