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Red Flag Warning 27, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at May 14, 2026, 12:56 PM CDT for 14 counties in Oklahoma; Foard County, Hardeman County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It took effect at May 15, 2026, 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
- May 14, 2026, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 616 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 May 14, 12:15 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 12:15 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Harper | 29 min |
| May 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Harper | 52 min |
| May 14, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Harper, Woods | 42 min |
| May 14, 6:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Ellis | 43 min |
| May 14, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 38 min |
| May 14, 6:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Beckham | 52 min |
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.