Flash Flood, Bryan
- When
- June 21, 10:00 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bryan County, Hendrix to 0.48 mi E of Hendrix
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Property damage
- $80,000
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.770, -96.410
Water entered into businesses and homes.
Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Oklahoma, June 21, 2015
Storms developed in eastern Texas the morning of the 21st. These storms developed slowly westward, bringing flooding rains to south central Oklahoma.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $80,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.
Storms developed in eastern Texas the morning of the 21st. These storms developed slowly westward, bringing flooding rains to south central Oklahoma.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 21, 5:33 AM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 5:33 AM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 633 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 2015 .DISCUSSION... 21/12Z TAF DISC BELOW. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED WITH GUSTY S/SW WINDS ACROSS TERMINALS. SOME LOW CLOUD DEVELOPMENT ACROSS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS INTO SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA CANNOT BE RULED OUT EARLY THIS MORNING...BUT CONFIDENCE TOO LOW TO MENTION IN FORECAST. WILL INCLUDE SCT-BKN VFR CU 16-00Z ALL BUT FAR WEST AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA TERMINALS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 421 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 2015/ DISCUSSION... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS...ALONG WITH A FEW WEAK STORMS... POSSIBLE MAINLY ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY EAST OF I-35 TODAY. LATEST HI-RES MODEL DATA AND OBSERVATIONAL TRENDS INDICATE AREAS NEAR AND EAST OF LAKE TEXOMA STAND THE BEST SHOT AT BRIEF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A STORM MID-MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON AS WEAK MID-LEVEL LOW BRUSHES AREA. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE NOT EXPECTED AND WE CURRENTLY DO NOT EXPECT ANY SUBSTANTIAL EFFECT ON THE CURRENT FLOODING SITUATION OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. FLAT UPPER RIDGE STILL PROGD TO BUILD OVER REGION TOMORROW THROUGH MOST OF THE WEEK LEADING TO HOT AND MUGGY CONDITIONS WITH LITTLE OR NO CHANCE FOR RAIN. DEVELOPMENT OF NORTHWEST FLOW WITH RIDGE BREAKDOWN ANTICIPATED FOR NEXT WEEKEND. MEDIUM RANGE FORECASTS DIFFER ON TIMING OF POTENTIAL FRONT BUT CONSENSUS BLEND OF POPS AND TEMP DECREASE GENERALLY ACCEPTED AND KEPT IN LATEST FORECAST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 91 73 92 74 / 10 0 0 0 HOBART OK 93 71 95 72 / 10 0 0 0 WICHITA FALLS TX 92 72 95 73 / 20 10 0 0 GAGE OK 94 71 95 70 / 10 0 0 0 PONCA CITY OK 94 75 95 76 / 10 0 0 0 DURANT OK 87 74 94 73 / 60 10 0 0 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 04/11
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 9:33 AM CST, 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1033 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 2015 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-221545- HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD- NOBLE-ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE- BECKHAM-WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN- CLEVELAND-POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON- TILLMAN-COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON- JEFFERSON-CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN- FOARD-WILBARGER-WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY- 1033 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... .FLOODING... RIVERS CONTINUE TO FALL... BUT MODERATE TO MAJOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON SEVERAL RIVERS ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THROUGH TODAY. NUMEROUS CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE FLOODING. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED...BUT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING ALONG AND AROUND THE RED RIVER OF SOUTHERN BRYAN COUNTY. .HEAT... HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDICES REACHING THE UPPER 90S TO LOWER 100S ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... .FLOODING... RIVERS IN FLOOD ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THROUGH MONDAY... BUT SEVERAL WILL REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE INTO THE MIDDLE OF THIS COMING WEEK. .HEAT... HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE FOR AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES REACHING THE UPPER 90S TO LOWER 100S ACROSS THE REGION EACH AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. 04/11
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:58 UTC.
Event by event
4 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Rain, Bryan
- When
- June 21, 10:00 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bryan County, Kemp
- Reported by
- Post Office
- Coordinates
- 33.770, -96.350
Heavy rain was reported between 9:30am and 11:00am.
Flash Flood, Bryan
- When
- June 21, 10:40 AM CST to 1:40 PM CST
- Where
- Bryan County, 1.83 mi SW of Colbert to 1.46 mi SSW of Colbert
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.841, -96.522
Water flowing over the roadway on highway 75/69 made the highway impassible.
Flash Flood, Marshall
- When
- June 21, 12:10 PM CST to 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall County, 1.05 mi WSW of Madill to 0.32 mi SE of Madill
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 34.084, -96.787
Three feet of water flowed over some roadways in Madill.
Flash Flood, Bryan
- When
- June 21, 1:14 PM CST to 4:14 PM CST
- Where
- Bryan County, 0.69 mi S of Hendrix to 1.03 mi SE of Hendrix
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 33.760, -96.410
Roads were washed out on Oklahoma side of Carpenters Bluff bridge due to flooding.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 21, 2015
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 586083, 586084, 586085, 586086, 586087.