State forecast
STATE FORECAST FOR OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
FRI NOV 20 2009
.TODAY…PARTLY CLOUDY WEST. MOSTLY CLOUDY CENTRAL AND EAST WITH
A CHANCE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE 50S TO NEAR
60.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS. LOWS UPPER 20S
PANHANDLE TO MID 40S EAST.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS EAST.
HIGHS IN THE 60S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 30S AND 40S. HIGHS UPPER 50S TO
UPPER 60S.
.MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS EAST.
LOWS 30S AND 40S. HIGHS 50S AND 60S.
.TUESDAY…PARTY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS EAST.
LOWS 20S AND 30S. HIGHS 50S TO LOWER 60S.
Hazardous weather outlook
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
FRI NOV 20 2009
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-211100-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
1150 AM CST FRI NOV 20 2009
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN…WESTERN…
CENTRAL…AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA…AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE…THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
DISCUSSION…
AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
OVER PARTS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. RELATIVELY LIGHT
WINDS AT ALL LEVELS… AND WEAK INSTABILITY WILL RESULT IN A VERY
LOW CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS.
PROBABILITY TABLE…
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CST SATURDAY NOV 21.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA…20 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR…LESS THAN 5 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
THUNDERSTORMS ARE UNLIKELY FROM SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
Short-term forecast on this Friday
.REGIONAL WEATHER DISCUSSION…
ISOLATED SPRINKLES OR SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THIS
MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL… CENTRAL… AND SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA. THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE LIGHT WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A FEW
HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OR LESS.
OTHERWISE… SKIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY EXCEPT IN
PORTIONS OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS WHERE PARTLY
SUNNY SKIES WILL OCCUR. AT 1030 AM… A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WAS
POSITIONED NEAR RINGLING IN SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WITH A BOUNDARY
EXTENDING NORTHEAST FROM THE LOW TO NEAR PAULS VALLEY… CHANDLER…
AND CUSHING. CONDITIONS WILL BE COOLER THIS MORNING NORTH AND WEST
OF THESE FEATURES WITH NORTHERLY WINDS FROM MAINLY 10 TO 20 MPH.
EAST OF THESE FEATURES… WINDS WILL REMAIN LIGHT AND VARIABLE WITH
TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S THIS MORNING.
A childhood memory
When I was young, one of my absolute favorite things was visiting my grandparents.
My paternal grandmother, Stella Young, and my maternal grandparents, Dewey and Audrie Bennett, both lived on SE 21 Street. Lightning Creek separated them.
It was so much fun for a little girl to walk down to the foot bridge that spanned the creek. Not only could I visit my grandparents but I could cross the creek and look down and see all of what now would be just cast-off trash, but then was treasure, just out of reach.
Imagine my surprise when, looking for something else in The Oklahoman’s archive, I stumbled across a photograph of the very foot bridge I remembered from my childhood.
Something new in the way of bridges was swung into place across Lightning creek in Capitol Hill Tuesday when the city's home-made bridge was set up on Twenty-first street. - Copy of photograph published in The Oklahoman.
The story published March 8, 1944, tells the story of “my bridge.”
The original bridge across Lightning Creek had been destroyed earlier in the year by a tornado. With the war still ongoing, steel was unavailable, so the mother of invention took over.
“With steel for a modern bridge unavailable at this time, W. J. Booth, superintendent of the municipal garage, gathered up some salvage pipe from the Bluff creek project, welded them together, applied a new coat of paint and brought out a bridge.”
“Two men, working 10 days in the city garage, whipped out the structure at a total cost of $125 for a welding rod and material.”
The story goes on to say, “A total of 1,500 feet of pipe was used in constructing the 75-foot bridge. It is five feet, nine inches wide. A wooden flooring will be added.”
I remember the big wooden planks that made the floor of the bridge and provided my aunts, uncles and mother a shortcut to school.
The bridge is no longer there, probably a victim of the flood control measures to keep Lightning Creek in its banks.
The street is not the street I remember of houses and people. Most of the houses are gone now, but I can close my eyes and see that little girl holding her daddy’s hand walking across the old bridge.
Mary Phillips
mphillips@opubco.com
Some of the low temperatures at Oklahoma Mesonet stations
The Oklahoma Mesonet station at Beaver recorded a low temperature of 19 degrees early this morning. In the Oklahoma City metro, the temperature at El Reno dipped to 23 degrees.
In Oklahoma County, the Mesonet stations had lows ranging from 28 to 30 degrees.
Freeze warning tonight and into Wednesday morning
…FREEZING TEMPERATURES LIKELY TONIGHT…
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-
NOBLE-ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-
BECKHAM-WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-
CLEVELAND-POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-
TILLMAN-COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-
JEFFERSON-CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-
FOARD-WILBARGER-WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…BUFFALO…ALVA…CHEROKEE…MEDFORD…
PONCA CITY…ARNETT…WOODWARD…FAIRVIEW…ENID…PERRY…
CHEYENNE…TALOGA…WEATHERFORD…CLINTON…WATONGA…
KINGFISHER…GUTHRIE…STILLWATER…ELK CITY…SAYRE…CORDELL…
ANADARKO…YUKON…EL RENO…MUSTANG…OKLAHOMA CITY…CHANDLER…
CHICKASHA…PURCELL…NORMAN…MOORE…SHAWNEE…SEMINOLE…
HOLDENVILLE…HOLLIS…MANGUM…HOBART…ALTUS…FREDERICK…
LAWTON…DUNCAN…PAULS VALLEY…SULPHUR…ADA…COALGATE…
WALTERS…WAURIKA…ARDMORE…TISHOMINGO…ATOKA…MARIETTA…
MADILL…DURANT…QUANAH…CHILLICOTHE…CROWELL…VERNON…
WICHITA FALLS…MUNDAY…KNOX CITY…SEYMOUR…ARCHER CITY…
HOLLIDAY…LAKESIDE CITY…HENRIETTA
100 PM CST TUE NOV 17 2009
…FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 8 AM CST
WEDNESDAY…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 8 AM CST
WEDNESDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
MINIMUM TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S ARE EXPECTED
TO TO BE WIDESPREAD WEDNESDAY MORNING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR
HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER
SENSITIVE VEGETATION.
Thursday’s Forecast for Stillwater; Saturday’s Forecast for Lubbock, Texas
University of Colorado at Oklahoma State University, Thursday, Stillwater:
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 63. Southeast wind between 6 and 9 mph.
Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40.
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University of Oklahoma at Texas Tech University, Saturday, Lubbock, Texas:
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 70. South southwest wind between 10 and 15 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37.
Oklahoma forecast through Saturday
TODAY…PARTLY CLOUDY WEST. CLOUDY EAST WITH A CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN.
HIGHS FROM NEAR 40 NORTHEAST TO THE UPPER 50S SOUTHWEST.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WEST. CLOUDY EAST WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
LIGHT RAIN. LOWS FROM THE MID 20S NORTHWEST TO NEAR 40 FAR SOUTHEAST.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WEST. CLEARING EAST. WARMER. HIGHS FROM
THE MID 40S NORTHEAST TO THE MID 60S SOUTHWEST.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS FROM THE LOWER 30S TO MID 40S.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S TO NEAR 50. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S
TO MID 60S.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS FROM THE MID 30S TO MID 40S.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S TO MID 60S.
Hazardous weather outlook
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN…WESTERN…
CENTRAL…AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA…AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHT…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION…
A COOL AND STABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AND AS A
RESULT…THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.
PROBABILITY TABLE…
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CST WEDNESDAY NOV 18.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA…LESS THAN 5 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR…LESS THAN 5 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
A FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING FOR PARTS OF WESTERN
OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT AREAS OF NORTH TEXAS.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
A WEATHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS THURSDAY NIGHT
AND FRIDAY WHEN THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER MUCH OF OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY NIGHT. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT.
Lows in the high 30s in most of the metro
Lows were in the high 30s throughout much of the metro according to the Oklahoma Mesonet.
Since midnight, the western Oklahoma Panhandle community of Kenton dipped to 18 degrees for the second straight day.
