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PDS Tornado Watch issued - Oklahoma and Texas
NOAA Severe Prediction Center ^ | 4/26/2016 | NOAA SPC

Posted on 04/26/2016 12:41:12 PM PDT by dirtboy

Edited on 04/26/2016 12:53:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
WEST CENTRAL THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON FROM 230 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

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

* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE... SEVERAL TORNADOES AND A FEW INTENSE TORNADOES LIKELY WIDESPREAD LARGE HAIL AND SCATTERED VERY LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER EXPECTED WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS LIKELY WITH ISOLATED SIGNIFICANT GUSTS TO 80 MPH POSSIBLE

SUMMARY...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY FORM IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS OVER WESTERN PART OF WATCH...INCLUDING A FEW STRONG SUPERCELLS CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...AND TORNADOES. THE STORMS SHOULD MERGE INTO BROKEN LINES AND CLUSTERS...WITH EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS CONTINUING TO POSE A RISK FOR VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND.. AND A FEW TORNADOES AS THEY MOVE/DEVELOP EAST-NORTHEAST INTO TONIGHT.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 90 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA TO 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BROWNWOOD TEXAS. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Oklahoma; US: Texas
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To: dirtboy

Yes, this is setting up to be potentially very dangerous. Prayers up for all in the path, including me.

OKC schools dismissed early. Western counties of Dallas/Fort Worth are cancelling after-school activities.


21 posted on 04/26/2016 1:10:20 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: dirtboy

I’m not far from Stephenville, TX. My roof is barely a year old from a hailstorm that was a year ago, almost to the day.


22 posted on 04/26/2016 1:11:00 PM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s mostly true. I’m in Tarrant county, the hail capital of the world. I have a 40-year-old concrete tile roof, which is almost impossible to crack with brute force. Any other types like composition, slate, clay, metal, etc. are new.


23 posted on 04/26/2016 1:13:19 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Mine made it more than 20. The hail storms a few weeks ago mean that I’ll have a new one by summer. Pretty much everyone in the neighborhood is having to replace.

On the other hand, I haven’t had to water yet, and the lawn hasn’t looked this good in years following what we got last year.


24 posted on 04/26/2016 1:15:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: dirtboy
Severe weather in the midwest in spring is a given. Although this has been a "slow" tornado season, this could be the "worst and unprecidented" in presentation by the globull warming acolytes.

Yes, I am talking about the weather channel.

25 posted on 04/26/2016 1:15:28 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’m not surprised they jacked up my insurance. Mine’s at least 6 or 7. But you’re basically in the ballpark.


26 posted on 04/26/2016 1:16:03 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: BuckeyeTexan

First tornado warning issued:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 313 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF CALDWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ARGONIA AROUND 340 PM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
MAYFIELD...WELLINGTON AIRPORT...MILAN AND PERTH.


27 posted on 04/26/2016 1:16:53 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Robert DeLong

They make above ground shelters - they either take up a chunk of your garage, or you lose a walk in closet.


28 posted on 04/26/2016 1:17:15 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: pfflier

It looks like another chance of a major outbreak later in the week as well.


29 posted on 04/26/2016 1:17:39 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

The TV folks were issuing warnings over the weekend - that’s not something they usually do that far out. I hope that that means that it will turn out to be minor.


30 posted on 04/26/2016 1:19:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: dirtboy

There’s an app that lets you watch what the storm chasers are seeing. It’s pretty amazing.


31 posted on 04/26/2016 1:20:06 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: PAR35

This is very bad timing for the OKC area - firing along the dry line just to the west of the area at peak afternoon heating.


32 posted on 04/26/2016 1:21:52 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That was my thought too.


33 posted on 04/26/2016 1:23:04 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You outta see the numbers hail damage does every year in Colorado, tween roofs,windows,autos,and rebuild costs

Mindblowin


34 posted on 04/26/2016 1:24:12 PM PDT by advertising guy
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To: dirtboy

35 posted on 04/26/2016 1:26:18 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: PAR35

Thanks, but it’s more fun watching my wife have a panic attack, and then getting mad at me for not coming up with a safe place to hunker down (because there isn’t any). I always tell her, after the threat has passed, that we are both way to ornery to die in that fashion. We live on acreage and the chances of it hitting us are slim, and we experience maybe 3 threats a year at the most.


36 posted on 04/26/2016 1:26:34 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: dirtboy

It’s Spring and time for the big storms.


37 posted on 04/26/2016 1:28:53 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Cruz and Kasich are in COLLUSION with the establishment GOP - cannot be trusted!)
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To: yarddog
I'm in Osage Co.

Out in the middle of nowhere.....

The closest twister we've had was 7 miles from here...cut a trail thru mostly pasture/timber land. Killed some cows, horses...but no humans.

Tonight might be interesting....

38 posted on 04/26/2016 1:29:37 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The GOPe.....are actually worse than the Dim's)
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To: advertising guy
We had TWO bouts of hail and 3 tornado warnings in ONE day in April of last year. My 20+ year old daughter was stunned - asked me if I'd ever seen weather like it before. The day seemed like it lasted forever. The hailstones in the 2nd storm were the worst! The sound as they hit the roof, I will never forget. They were the size of my palm and covered with spikes, like those dryer balls at the grocery store, only bigger.

We have a tornado room under construction right now and one already hit less than a mile away right after they began working on it.
39 posted on 04/26/2016 1:34:46 PM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: Osage Orange

The only clear view I have ever had of a tornado was while driving on the outskirts of Skiatook. As I passed near a filling station, I noticed several people out front of it looking North.

They saw me and pointed North. There across a field was a perfect funnel. Just like in the movies. That night I saw it on the news and it had just damaged some farm out buildings. No loss of life or even injuries.

It just happened to miss everything.


40 posted on 04/26/2016 1:36:19 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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