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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at Mar 12, 2025, 2:38 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 13, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Mar 12, 2025, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 13, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 12, 12:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 12:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:34 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 34 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 12, 2:38 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OUN | Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 42 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 12, 2:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Knox | 18 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Oklahoma, 2025Every red flag warning in 2025
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.