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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Norman, OK

April 22, 2025Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 22, 2025, 8:58 PM CDT for Woods 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: Apr 22, 2025, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Woods County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -187 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 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 Apr 22, 6:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 6:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 22, 7:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 22, 7:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 22, 8:12 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 22, 8:29 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 22, 8:41 PM CDT, 17 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 22, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	15 min
Apr 22, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	10 min
Apr 22, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	29 min
Apr 22, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	12 min
Apr 22, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	35 min
Apr 22, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	17 min
Apr 22, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	29 min
Apr 22, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	25 min
Apr 22, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	21 min
Apr 22, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	31 min
Apr 22, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	44 min
Apr 22, 8:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woods	3 hr
Apr 22, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Woods	34 min
Apr 22, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	31 min
Apr 22, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer, Harmon	34 min
Apr 22, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	36 min
Apr 22, 9:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	28 min
Apr 22, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	12 min
Apr 22, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	14 min
Apr 22, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	27 min
Apr 22, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	25 min
Apr 22, 10:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	28 min
Apr 22, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	28 min
Apr 23, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	51 min
Apr 23, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	50 min
Apr 23, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	21 min
Apr 23, 1:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	32 min
Apr 22, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hardeman	34 min
Apr 22, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Wilbarger	48 min
Apr 22, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	40 min
Apr 22, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Knox	51 min
Apr 22, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wilbarger	38 min
Apr 23, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	38 min
Apr 23, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	35 min
Apr 23, 12:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	34 min
Apr 23, 1:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	3 hr
Apr 23, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer, Wichita	30 min
Apr 23, 2:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	27 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.