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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Norman, OK

June 6, 2025Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT for Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 6, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT (12:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2025, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 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 12:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -124 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 Jun 6, 6:13 AM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 6:13 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 6, 3:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Norman OK
318 AM CDT Fri Jun 6 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0250 AM     Tstm Wnd Gst     5 SW Orienta            36.32N 98.54W
06/06/2025  M60 MPH          Major              OK   Mesonet

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MAD

Local storm report, Jun 6, 4:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 4:41 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 6:52 AM CDT, 8 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
Jun 5, 7:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	37 min
Jun 5, 7:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Coal, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	48 min
Jun 5, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Major	41 min
Jun 5, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	29 min
Jun 5, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	53 min
Jun 6, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	57 min
Jun 6, 12:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	51 min
Jun 6, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	60 min
Jun 6, 1:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woods	3 hr
Jun 6, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Major, Woods, Woodward	62 min
Jun 6, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods	61 min
Jun 6, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	57 min
Jun 6, 1:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Harper, Woods	3 hr
Jun 6, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Major, Woodward	63 min
Jun 6, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	59 min
Jun 6, 2:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Woods	3 hr
Jun 6, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward	52 min
Jun 6, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major	65 min
Jun 6, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	46 min
Jun 6, 2:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	31 min
Jun 6, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Garfield and 3 more	58 min
Jun 6, 3:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	3 hr
Jun 6, 3:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble	3 hr
Jun 6, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	64 min
Jun 6, 4:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Logan	29 min
Jun 6, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and 1 more	57 min
Jun 6, 4:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	49 min
Jun 6, 4:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne	3 hr
Jun 6, 4:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Payne, Pottawatomie, Seminole	73 min
Jun 6, 4:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	23 min
Jun 6, 4:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
Jun 6, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and 1 more	57 min
Jun 6, 5:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie	39 min
Jun 6, 5:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	55 min
Jun 6, 5:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin, Hughes, Murray, Pontotoc, Seminole	65 min
Jun 6, 5:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, McClain and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	41 min
Jun 6, 6:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	53 min
Jun 6, 6:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Hughes, McClain, Murray, Pontotoc and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Murray	68 min
Jun 6, 7:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	4 hr
Jun 6, 7:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc, Stephens	3 hr
Jun 6, 7:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 6, 8:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 6, 8:39 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	2 hr
Jun 6, 8:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka, Coal	3 hr
Jun 6, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	12 hr
Jun 6, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	5 days
Jun 6, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay, Noble	4 days
Jun 6, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher, Major	29 hr
Jun 6, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	64 hr
Jun 6, 9:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	3 hr
Jun 6, 10:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	10 hr
Jun 6, 2:39 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Grant, Kay	9 hr
Jun 6, 2:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Payne	44 hr
Jun 6, 2:52 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Dewey, Major, Woodward	21 days

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.