Another tornado moving into Oklahoma City

http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/ ^

[Lucas1]

Storm spotters report a large tornado approaching Oklahoma City. This just happened yesterday. God be with those people.

[yukong]

In the past 4 years...since the May 3, 99 tornados...and then the major ice storm of 2002...and now these 2 days of tornados...a major portion of the electric infrastructure here in central Oklahoma has been or will be replaced. In those ice storms in jan 01...tens of thousands of homes were without power for days.

[kcvl]

[dennis1x]

dB is a measure of how much power is received back at radar (after sending signal into storm)..basically measuring density of precipitation....that particular radar view that you linked shows the strongest precipitation....so that purple dot was the most intense precipitaion....that does not necessarily mean that that is where the most intense (tornadic) part of the storm is....to see this one must look at a velocity radar view...i believe someone posted a link earlier...what this view does is measure wind speeds from, and to, the radar site....a tornadic signature is areas of yellow/red (wind speed towards radar) and areas of green (wind speed going from radar) right together.....hence circulation.

[Moonman62]

It looks like the radar picked up a debris trail behind the tornado.

[PhiKapMom]

That is one nasty storm now heading through Tulsa! At least it looks dry behind it.

Cornerstone Church in NW OKC is destroyed.

[El Gato]

75mph winds... YIKES!

And that was outside the tornado's immediate vicinity. Inside the tornado itself, the wind might be 200-300 mph, for one as big as this one, or the one in '99.

[PhiKapMom]

I am going to call it a night! Stay safe all!

[Tulsa Brian]

Wall cloud and funnel in Mounds NOW

[kcvl]

High Density Winds - click on your area...



http://www.goes.noaa.gov/WINDS/fullIREast.html

[Freedom2specul8]

Here it comes.. western kansas, johnson county up to atchison county under severe thunderstorm watch. I'm going to have to rest.. See ya tomorrow.

Take care everyone!

[kcvl]

Click arrows in top left corner to get your area...


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p19r0/SI.ksrx/latest.gif

[_Jim]

but the tornado was on the ground from El Reno to Tulsa

It's *not* quite to Tulsa at the momment - is looks to be on RADAR A LITTLE over half way from Oklahoma City *to* Tulsa though ...

[Husker24]

This damn storm wont let me go to bed.

[kcvl]

[kcvl]

[dennis1x]

latest forecast just released from storm prediction center....st. louis in the bullseye for most sever weather today...

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

[_Jim]

I've been archiving the imagery from the four to five WSR-88D NEXRAD RADAR's (FDR, TLX, VNX, IMX and ICT) around Oklahoma as well as the NWS Mesoscale discussions for the last couple of days - so I've got (almost) the complete RADAR Track of *both* of these storms that hit OKC the last two days ...

[Charles Henrickson]

st. louis in the bullseye for most sever weather today...

Gee, thanks. . . . You're right. Highest probabilities for tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail--right over where I live.

[El Gato]

-oh, sounds like it's headed for the area where my wife's sister lives. S44th and I-35 area.

Oops, I was thinking of I-240 and MacArther. Sister in law is safe, but one of her daughters lives in Guthrie, as do her in-laws. don't know where the other two kids that are out of the house live. One may live near I-44 and I-35, because she was/is shift manager at Braums near there. Youngest two still at home with her and their Dad.

[_Jim]

I'm going to say this once, nicely, as my next address will be directly to the admin mods -

*PLEASE* don't post images from the NWS site DIRECTLY onto FR -

- the increased 'hits' overload the NWS servers and there are people out there who REALLY need to se this information - like various County and City Emergency coodinators and MANY storm spotter organizations across the country that USE these services provided by the NWS to COORDINATE their activities -

I WOULD HATE to see that someone lost their life because they *couldn't* get critical information in a timely manner ...