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To: _Jim

Very unusual step, but probably the right call under the circumstances. Some of the supercells will be moving through the OKC area in mid-to-late afternoon, about the same time kids would be getting on school buses to go home.

One of the worst school-related tornado disasters occurred in Belvidere, IL in April 1967. A powerful twister plowed into the high school as students were loading onto buses and heading home; the death toll was even higher than a school in Murphysboro, IL that devastated by the Great Tri-State Tornado in 1925: https://addins.wrex.com/blogs/weather/2011/04/remembering-the-1967-belvidere-tornado

Obviously, officials in OKC are trying to avoid a repeat of that tragedy by keeping the kids at home. However, I have not heard of other systems (outside Oklahoma City) that have closed schools for the day. I would predict that many of them will send students home at mid-day or early afternoon, before the worst of the weather arrives.


27 posted on 05/20/2019 8:48:34 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: ExNewsExSpook

Update: dozens of public school systems, community colleges, churches, and public service organizations across Oklahoma are closed today, or will cease operations around mid-day, ahead of the expected severe weather outbreak: https://kfor.com/weather/closings/


28 posted on 05/20/2019 8:54:03 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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