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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: yield 2 the right

Damn it just heard, it was a woman with her child who were killed in the car


241 posted on 05/31/2013 5:31:25 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Coldwater Creek

Prayers for your family.


242 posted on 05/31/2013 5:31:32 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: dirtboy

That is not good.


243 posted on 05/31/2013 5:31:42 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: CedarDave

And now they have to start worrying about flooding.
West of OKC, they have had severe thunderstorm rains for a couple hours now.


244 posted on 05/31/2013 5:32:11 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: JRandomFreeper; All

TV feeds I’m seeing .. it looks like midnight


245 posted on 05/31/2013 5:32:41 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: mylife

Looks like a new hook developing on the far back end of the storm.


246 posted on 05/31/2013 5:32:55 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: tomkat

Lots of streets blocked by flooding.


247 posted on 05/31/2013 5:33:14 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: dirtboy

Yeah, I saw rotation in there too.


248 posted on 05/31/2013 5:33:50 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: tomkat

Does to the people who are actually there, too.


249 posted on 05/31/2013 5:33:50 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RayChuang88

Have the Fox News online presentation and that storm is HUGH looking. This is bad.


250 posted on 05/31/2013 5:34:11 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: dirtboy
The back-building may go on until midnight with all of the energy in the atmosphere. God help them.

/johnny

251 posted on 05/31/2013 5:34:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: TADSLOS; All

Now another big rotation out west of Union City, near Cogar . . .


252 posted on 05/31/2013 5:34:41 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Biggirl

Reports of looting already.


253 posted on 05/31/2013 5:34:48 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: CedarDave

I like this thread....


254 posted on 05/31/2013 5:35:35 PM PDT by caww
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To: TADSLOS
Reports of looting already.

Good Lord.

255 posted on 05/31/2013 5:35:50 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: dirtboy

OKC TORNADO WARNING, LIVE VIDEO FEED

http://abcnews.go.com/live


256 posted on 05/31/2013 5:35:50 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Telling the truth about RINOS, PAULTARDS, Liberals and Muslims has become hate speech)
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To: TADSLOS
Reports of looting already.

Evil never rests, sadly.

God bless OK.
257 posted on 05/31/2013 5:36:25 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Biggirl; All

Over 300,000 K with out power here in the Metro area.


258 posted on 05/31/2013 5:36:29 PM PDT by oxcart (Journalism [Sic])
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To: TADSLOS

Good grief, you think!


259 posted on 05/31/2013 5:36:34 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: tomkat

30,000 plus already without power...


260 posted on 05/31/2013 5:36:43 PM PDT by caww
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