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Another tornado moving into Oklahoma City
http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/ ^

Posted on 05/09/2003 7:36:11 PM PDT by Lucas1

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: okc; tornado
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To: El Gato
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.
521 posted on 05/09/2003 11:07:08 PM PDT by yukong
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To: PhiKapMom

522 posted on 05/09/2003 11:08:02 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Charles Henrickson
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.
523 posted on 05/09/2003 11:08:25 PM PDT by dennis1x
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To: Charles Henrickson
It looks like the radar picked up a debris trail behind the tornado.
524 posted on 05/09/2003 11:08:39 PM PDT by Moonman62
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To: kcvl
That is one nasty storm now heading through Tulsa! At least it looks dry behind it.

Cornerstone Church in NW OKC is destroyed.
525 posted on 05/09/2003 11:09:07 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: nutmeg
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.

526 posted on 05/09/2003 11:09:43 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: kcvl; All
I am going to call it a night! Stay safe all!
527 posted on 05/09/2003 11:10:06 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: PhiKapMom
Wall cloud and funnel in Mounds NOW
528 posted on 05/09/2003 11:12:28 PM PDT by Tulsa Brian (Second place is the first loser)
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To: All
High Density Winds - click on your area...



http://www.goes.noaa.gov/WINDS/fullIREast.html
529 posted on 05/09/2003 11:12:37 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: midwestjenny; Conservababe; barker; lawgirl
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!

530 posted on 05/09/2003 11:13:35 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Click arrows in top left corner to get your area...


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p19r0/SI.ksrx/latest.gif
531 posted on 05/09/2003 11:18:01 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: RasterMaster
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 ...

532 posted on 05/09/2003 11:18:46 PM PDT by _Jim (Guangdong doctor linked as source of SARS in China: http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030320/09/)
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To: _Jim
This damn storm wont let me go to bed.
533 posted on 05/09/2003 11:21:22 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: _Jim

534 posted on 05/09/2003 11:22:19 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Husker24

535 posted on 05/09/2003 11:25:20 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
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
536 posted on 05/09/2003 11:32:48 PM PDT by dennis1x
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To: Husker24
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 ...
537 posted on 05/09/2003 11:36:29 PM PDT by _Jim (Guangdong doctor linked as source of SARS in China: http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030320/09/)
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To: dennis1x
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.

538 posted on 05/09/2003 11:39:41 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (St. Louis [Clayton], Missouri)
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To: 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.

539 posted on 05/09/2003 11:41:30 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: kcvl; Admin Moderator
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 ...

540 posted on 05/09/2003 11:41:43 PM PDT by _Jim (Guangdong doctor linked as source of SARS in China: http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030320/09/)
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