At noon: Short-term forecast

.REGIONAL WEATHER DISCUSSION…
AT NOON… NUMEROUS SHOWERS… AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING OVER MOST OF OKLAHOMA… AND A SMALL PART OF WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY FROM EAST OF HOLDENVILLE…
SOUTH TO NEAR COALGATE.  SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE
THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA… MAINLY NEAR AND EAST OF
COALGATE… ATOKA… AND DURANT.  STRONG LOW-LEVEL WIND SHEAR WILL
ALSO RESULT IN A RISK OF ISOLATED TORNADOES IN THIS SAME AREA.

THE STORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG A COLD FRONT.  TEMPERATURES AHEAD OF
THE FRONT WERE MOSTLY IN THE 60S AND LOWER 70S… WHILE BEHIND THE
FRONT… READINGS DROPPED INTO THE 50S.

NUMEROUS SHOWERS EXTENDED WEST FROM THE FRONT INTO CENTRAL AND
WESTERN OKLAHOMA… AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.  THESE SHOWERS WERE
MOSTLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ALVA… TO CLINTON… TO VERNON TEXAS.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THIS SAME
REGION THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON… AND WILL BEGIN TO
DIMINISH SLOWLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

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