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Oklahoma - Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch
NOAA ^ | 5/31/13

Posted on 05/31/2013 2:27:54 PM PDT by dirtboy

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 262 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 330 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON FROM 330 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...

* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE... SEVERAL INTENSE TORNADOES LIKELY NUMEROUS VERY LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER LIKELY NUMEROUS DAMAGING WIND GUSTS LIKELY WITH SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT GUSTS TO 80 MPH POSSIBLE

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOMA TO 30 MILES EAST OF WICHITA FALLS TEXAS. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 260...WW 261...

DISCUSSION...AN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIR MASS HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL/EASTERN OK THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG THE DRYLINE OVER WEST-CENTRAL OK...AND ALONG A WEAK BOUNDARY EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHEAST OK. DISCRETE SUPERCELLS CAPABLE OF EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BECOME AN INCREASING THREAT THROUGH THE EVENING.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 4 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 600. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 26025.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: Kansas; US: Missouri; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: okc; tornado; twister
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To: dirtboy

What does gate-to-gate mean?


121 posted on 05/31/2013 4:55:43 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: CedarDave
What a monster:


122 posted on 05/31/2013 4:55:57 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

The new one is the tiny protruding hook out in the front of that circulation SW of OKC?

}:-)4


123 posted on 05/31/2013 4:56:05 PM PDT by Moose4 (SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.)
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prayers


124 posted on 05/31/2013 4:56:10 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: TomGuy

The emergency personnel and weathermen need to get on the same page. The weathermen are saying get in the car and try to drive away...but then the roads are closed.


125 posted on 05/31/2013 4:56:33 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: workerbee

See post 112.

}:-)4


126 posted on 05/31/2013 4:56:37 PM PDT by Moose4 (SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.)
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To: advertising guy

KFOR: Heading for downtown OK City.


127 posted on 05/31/2013 4:56:42 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: dirtboy

That looks like a hurricane!


128 posted on 05/31/2013 4:57:09 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: dirtboy

Whoa!


129 posted on 05/31/2013 4:57:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: CedarDave

Union City, tornado on the ground.


130 posted on 05/31/2013 4:58:28 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

My God, if I’m reading that time right at the bottom that’s a ONE HOUR time lapse. That’s unbelievable.

}:-)4


131 posted on 05/31/2013 4:59:13 PM PDT by Moose4 (SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.)
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To: caww

If this hits downtown OKC OMG I dont even want to think about it


132 posted on 05/31/2013 4:59:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dirtboy

Didn’t OK just get smashed by 3 tornadoes this week? The huge one that destroyed Moore, and two others?


133 posted on 05/31/2013 4:59:25 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: caww
Heading for state fair park. Thousands of cars there.

Tornado Emergency for OKC. This is the storm from hell.

134 posted on 05/31/2013 4:59:33 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy; LUV W

Prayers up. Looks bad. Watching Weather channel.


135 posted on 05/31/2013 5:00:26 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: Moose4
Yes, ~1 hour !

One on the ground now in Mustang ...

136 posted on 05/31/2013 5:01:28 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Sarah Barracuda

NWS issued Tornado Emergency for downtown OKC, Will Rogers Airport, Wiley Post Airport, Bethany, north Moore.

}:-)4


137 posted on 05/31/2013 5:01:30 PM PDT by Moose4 (SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.)
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To: MEG33

Yes it’s scary just watching on tv.
God help these poor folks in OKC area.


138 posted on 05/31/2013 5:02:05 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: caww
Two tornadoes from the same supercell.


139 posted on 05/31/2013 5:02:18 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

There calling this tornado killer...mother and child pulled from vehicle...didn’t make it...:(

Tornado on ground in Mustang...huge circulation


140 posted on 05/31/2013 5:02:20 PM PDT by caww
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