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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Norman, OK

June 24, 2026Atoka County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2026, 5:48 PM CDT for Atoka 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: Jun 24, 2026, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Atoka County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1036 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -234 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 24, 1:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 2:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 2:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 3:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:33 PM CDT, 15 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 24, 7:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Grant, Kay, Noble	4 hr
Jun 24, 7:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	28 min
Jun 24, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pawnee	27 min
Jun 24, 7:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Payne	3 hr
Jun 24, 7:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pawnee	31 min
Jun 24, 8:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	3 hr
Jun 24, 9:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Logan, Noble, Payne	3 hr
Jun 24, 9:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	33 min
Jun 24, 12:10 PM CDT	Flood Watch	OUN	Alfalfa, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kay and 7 more	40 hr
Jun 24, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	29 min
Jun 24, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	42 min
Jun 24, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	42 min
Jun 24, 5:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka	3 hr
Jun 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	27 min
Jun 24, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	48 min
Jun 24, 6:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka, Coal	3 hr
Jun 24, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	12 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.