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.
This is the kind of event that makes me wonder if this is another signal of end times. This is an epic tornado.
Prayers for all. We have good friends in Edmond. Dear God, please keep them safe.
Thanks for the update. I can imagine how frightening it must be not knowing exactly where one will pop up.
Shepard Smith reported that people were observed to be driving INTO the tornado because they couldn’t see the tornado for the rain, thought they were driving into a rain cloud.
Shudder....
Crap...thanks for info.
>> “Four inch hailstones? That’s gonna leave a mark on the car’s finish.” <<
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It’ll cave in the roof and hood and possibly break the windshield too.
I had a guy working for me back about 30 years ago that had one of those Mercury versions of the Pinto, that had been through numerous major hail storms. There wasn’t any paint on any of the top surfaces of the car because he had pounded out the dents so many times.
The car looked like he had bought it from a county fair sledge hammer concession.
... Then they’re going to have to make a run for it to the nearest reinforced steel and concrete structure, usually an overpass, get well back into the girders with as little exposure as possible, brace themselves hard, cover their face as best they can and pray. Wind tunnel effect or no, there’s no place else to go and they’re certainly not going to just sit there exposed on the highway with no shelter whatsoever.
On the ground now near downtown according to KFOR
I have good friends in Edmond. They are safe right?
People stuck in their cars are in trouble.
But FR is better at times, different FR-peers watching other TV channels and media and info being given out. Watch FNC...scary....
We have good friends in Edmond, too. Doesn’t look good for them either. Prayers for all.
There probably have been hundreds of tornadoes like this in this area in the last 10,000 years.
Humans just showed up and plopped a city there.
If this was happening to Portland Oregon, or there was a volcano erupting in the middle of Minneapolis, then come back and babble about End Times nonsense.
Shep just told the FoxNews reporter on the ground that he HAD to slow down, he was talking too fast and excitedly....so true, I couldn’t understand him at all.
Reporter trying to report more clearly and slowly...
The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Nahum 1:3
my question is “ why? “
Shep Smith just had to calm down someone (Jeff?) on air who is on site in OKC area...any one else watching this on FNC?
Shep continues to restate what the reporter is saying. Trying to slow down and speak clearly
Yes, so much going on at once.
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