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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Norman, OK

April 29, 20256 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 2025, 6:01 AM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2025, 6:01 AM CDT (11:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2025, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Grady County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 24 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: 2241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 6.4

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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 Apr 29, 1:13 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 1:13 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 29, 5:06 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 5:23 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 5:34 AM CDT, 27 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
Apr 28, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman	13 min
Apr 28, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	29 min
Apr 28, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	11 min
Apr 28, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	51 min
Apr 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson	41 min
Apr 28, 7:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	3 hr
Apr 28, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Jackson	116 min
Apr 28, 8:04 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Jefferson, Love	15 hr
Apr 28, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	38 min
Apr 28, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	42 min
Apr 28, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	52 min
Apr 28, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	46 min
Apr 28, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	27 min
Apr 28, 8:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 28, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Washita	36 min
Apr 28, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	35 min
Apr 28, 9:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 28, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita	37 min
Apr 28, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	45 min
Apr 28, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	31 min
Apr 28, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	26 min
Apr 28, 10:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 28, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	48 min
Apr 28, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	31 min
Apr 28, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	29 min
Apr 28, 10:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma	24 min
Apr 28, 10:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Grady	2 hr
Apr 28, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady, McClain	31 min
Apr 28, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	36 min
Apr 28, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	29 min
Apr 28, 11:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	2 hr
Apr 28, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie, Seminole	38 min
Apr 28, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	34 min
Apr 28, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	29 min
Apr 28, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Seminole	32 min
Apr 29, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Okfuskee	11 min
Apr 29, 2:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	28 min
Apr 29, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	32 min
Apr 29, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	26 min
Apr 29, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods	46 min
Apr 29, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward	42 min
Apr 29, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	46 min
Apr 29, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	43 min
Apr 29, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	39 min
Apr 29, 4:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant	27 min
Apr 29, 4:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	33 min
Apr 29, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	36 min
Apr 29, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	33 min
Apr 29, 4:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 29, 4:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kingfisher	30 min
Apr 29, 4:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	28 min
Apr 29, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Stephens, Tillman	39 min
Apr 29, 4:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	3 hr
Apr 29, 4:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	32 min
Apr 29, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	31 min
Apr 29, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Stephens	51 min
Apr 29, 5:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	37 min
Apr 29, 5:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	37 min
Apr 29, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	48 min
Apr 29, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	45 min
Apr 29, 6:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	17 min
Apr 29, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie	35 min
Apr 29, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pottawatomie, Seminole	45 min
Apr 29, 7:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Payne	115 min
Apr 29, 8:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Tillman	5 days
Apr 29, 8:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Love	11 days
Apr 29, 8:21 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	27 hr
Apr 29, 8:23 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	OUN	Jefferson	3 hr
Apr 29, 8:48 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka	6 hr
Apr 29, 8:49 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Grady	36 hr
Apr 29, 8:50 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	6 hr
Apr 29, 8:51 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	23 hr
Apr 29, 8:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	48 hr
Apr 29, 8:53 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	30 hr
Apr 29, 8:56 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	OUN	Garvin, Grady	13 hr
Apr 29, 8:56 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	5 hr
Apr 29, 9:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 days
Apr 29, 10:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	30 min
Apr 29, 11:03 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	OUN	Jefferson, Love	22 hr
Apr 29, 11:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Jefferson	66 hr

Nearby

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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.