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.
They'd said earlier that they were found alive .. sadly, it's almost unimaginable that this mess won't be leaving many bodies in its wake.
so am i
Tornado warning in St. Louis now..
One on ground 30 miles west of St Louis
Yeah, that’s what the Fox25 weather guy said. The Fox25 guy even told ‘Mike’, the storm chaser, to get cover ‘NOW!’.
The guy they have had reporting, though, has at times been speaking too quickly to understand.
Really there's been a mess of semi-organized much weaker ciriculations as this has all gone over the most populated parts of the OKC metro. People should't have the idea that the whole area has been leveled.
Actually what there could be billions of dollars of damage of is hail.
Keep your heads down, FRiends.
There not sure this is worse than Moore...Police just spoke and said so far no significant damage as before...in the city of Oklahoma proper. Power lines are down and such...but damage to buildings undetermined.
St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri.. Tornado warnings
Got the Channel 9 online presentation and the screen shows a very wide area being hit. This is worse what hit Moore almost two weeks ago.
Looking at KFOR radar image: Supercell is barely moving with still several tornadoes but they are weaker except out by Minco.
Big power flashes right over I-35
Power flashes, what are those?
8:06pm CDT: Large dangerous tornado near I-70 bridge over the Missouri River at St Charles, MO!! Take cover in NW suburbs of St Louis!(viaTWC)
What are those?
How do you know that this worse than Moore?
Tornado disrupting power lines or transformers
per OKCPD the only way out is straight south
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