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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Norman, OK

July 4, 2026Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2026, 10:11 PM CDT for Oklahoma 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: Jul 4, 2026, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2026, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Oklahoma County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 2380 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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 Jul 4, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 4, 9:50 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 9:59 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 10:03 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 10:04 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 10:05 PM CDT, 6 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
Jul 4, 7:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay	3 hr
Jul 4, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Noble, Payne	47 min
Jul 4, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	30 min
Jul 4, 7:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Major, Woodward	3 hr
Jul 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble	36 min
Jul 4, 7:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garfield, Noble	3 hr
Jul 4, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	52 min
Jul 4, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Oklahoma and 1 more	52 min
Jul 4, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer, Greer, Washita	35 min
Jul 4, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	33 min
Jul 4, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Greer, Kiowa, Washita	43 min
Jul 4, 8:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Payne	3 hr
Jul 4, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	26 min
Jul 4, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne, Pottawatomie	46 min
Jul 4, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo, Kiowa	27 min
Jul 4, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	40 min
Jul 4, 9:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	3 hr
Jul 4, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	33 min
Jul 4, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo, Grady	32 min
Jul 4, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma	38 min
Jul 4, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Lincoln, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	45 min
Jul 4, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Cleveland, Comanche, Grady, McClain	24 min
Jul 4, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	40 min
Jul 4, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	32 min
Jul 4, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	30 min
Jul 4, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	24 min
Jul 4, 10:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland	3 hr
Jul 4, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	49 min
Jul 4, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	35 min
Jul 4, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	55 min
Jul 4, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	43 min
Jul 4, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc, Stephens	50 min
Jul 4, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Marshall, Murray and 1 more	26 min
Jul 5, 12:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	34 min
Jul 5, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	25 min
Jul 5, 1:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	26 min
Jul 5, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harmon	33 min
Jul 5, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Kiowa	47 min
Jul 5, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harmon	30 min
Jul 5, 3:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	25 min
Jul 5, 4:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	23 min
Jul 5, 10:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	28 min
Jul 5, 12:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter	28 min
Jul 5, 12:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter	26 min
Jul 5, 12:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	23 min
Jul 5, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	35 min
Jul 5, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jefferson	34 min
Jul 5, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	39 min
Jul 5, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	34 min
Jul 5, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	33 min
Jul 5, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	33 min
Jul 5, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	38 min
Jul 5, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jefferson	35 min
Jul 5, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	32 min
Jul 5, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson	51 min
Jul 5, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	51 min
Jul 5, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	29 min
Jul 5, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	28 min
Jul 5, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	32 min
Jul 5, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	29 min
Jul 5, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay, Wichita	45 min
Jul 5, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	28 min
Jul 5, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	51 min
Jul 5, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	14 min
Jul 5, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Wichita	53 min
Jul 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	32 min
Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Wichita	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	37 min
Jul 5, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	29 min
Jul 5, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	52 min
Jul 5, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	33 min
Jul 5, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	25 min
Jul 5, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger	49 min
Jul 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Foard, Knox	47 min
Jul 5, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	45 min
Jul 5, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	30 min
Jul 5, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger	50 min
Jul 5, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Knox	48 min
Jul 5, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	32 min
Jul 5, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	39 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.