Hazardous weather outlook, National Weather Service, Norman
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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-
830 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2011
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN…WESTERN…
CENTRAL…AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA…AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE…TONIGHT…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
NO ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION…
A COLD FRONT WILL STALL ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
TEXAS TONIGHT. AS AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES OVER THE
REGION…MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE PULLED NORTHWARD
OVER THE COOLER AND STABLE AIR NEAR THE GROUND. THIS WILL
LIKELY RESULT IN AN AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT.
ALTHOUGH ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE UNLIKELY…A FEW OF
THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE MARGINALLY SEVERE SIZE HAIL…MAINLY
SOUTH OF ALTUS…ARDMORE…AND COALGATE.
PROBABILITY TABLE…
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT SUNDAY MAY 1.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA…60 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR…20 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AS A
SERIES OF STORM SYSTEMS SWEEP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. SOME OF
THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE…MAINLY SOUTH
AND EAST OF INTERSTATE-44…WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY IMPACT.
Hazardous weather outlook, National Weather Service, Norman
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-
1200 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2011
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN…WESTERN…
CENTRAL…AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA…AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHT…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
NO ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION…
A DRY AND STABLE AIRMASS WILL SPREAD OVER OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS TODAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS
FRONT IS FORECAST TO STALL ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. AS AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE PROGRESSES OVER THE
REGION…SCATTERED STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF THE NWS NORMAN
COUNTY WARNING AREA. IN ADDITION…MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE
PULLED NORTHWARD OVER THE COOLER AND STABLE AIR NEAR THE GROUND.
THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN AN AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS
OVERNIGHT. ALTHOUGH ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE UNLIKELY…A FEW OF
THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE MARGINALLY SEVERE SIZE HAIL LATE TONIGHT AND
EARLY SUNDAY ACROSS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND AREAS SOUTH OF ALTUS…
ARDMORE…AND COALGATE IN OKLAHOMA.
PROBABILITY TABLE…
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT SUNDAY MAY 1.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA…60 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR…20 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
DRY AIR AND GUSTY NORTHERLY WIND WILL BE SEEN ACROSS SOUTHWEST
OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. WILDFIRE CONDITIONS WILL BE A
CONCERN THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS…BUT WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO
DECREASE BY LATE AFTERNOON.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AS A
SERIES OF STORM SYSTEMS SWEEP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. SOME OF
THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE…MAINLY SOUTH
AND EAST OF INTERSTATE-44…WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY IMPACT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
NONE.
Fire warning, Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
314 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2011
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS BEING TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
A WILDFIRE IS LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE TOWN OF CEMENT
MOVING NORTH. RESIDENTS OF CEMENT SHOULD EVACUATE TO GRADY COUNTY
PIONEER SCHOOL.
Hazardous weather outlook, National Weather Service, Norman
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-
1102 AM CDT FRI APR 29 2011
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN…WESTERN…
CENTRAL…AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA…AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE…THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
DISCUSSION…
A DRY AND STABLE AIRMASS WILL BE IN PLACE PREVENTING THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT.
PROBABILITY TABLE…
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT SATURDAY APR 30.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA…LESS THAN 5 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
HIGH WIND…LOW HUMIDITY AND A HOT AIRMASS WILL CAUSE EXTREME
WILDFIRE POTENTIAL IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PARTS OF TEXAS.
A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 9 PM.
SUSTAINED SOUTH WIND 25 TO 35 MPH IS EXPECTED OVER MOST OF CENTRAL
AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA. GUSTS WILL OCCASIONALLY REACH 50 MPH. A WIND
ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
NONE.
Wildfire potential, National Weather Service, Norman
Wind gusts within the last hour of 50 mph or more, Oklahoma Mesonet
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Talking with Steve Hewitt, city manager of Clinton, who was the city administrator in Greensburg, Kan. when an EF-5 hit there in 2007
In Clinton, city manager Steve Hewitt could identify all too well with the destruction he was seeing on television left by the tornado outbreak this week. Hewitt was city administrator of Greensburg, Kan. when an EF-5 tornado struck that city May 4, 2007.
“When I saw the images on the television yesterday and today, it just brought back an eerie feeling, it looked all too familiar,” Hewitt said today. “It doesn’t even seem like that could actually happen, but it does.”
He said to him it looked like the same photographs taken at Greensburg. That tornado in Kansas claimed 13 lives. About 95 percent of the city of Greensburg was left in ruin.
“I think at this point in time you have really got to rely on your faith, your friends and family,” he said.
“You have to mourn, you have to go through these emotions. There’s all levels of emotions.
“There will be the emotions of people coming and helping from outside, but you’ve got to really rely on your internal mechanism of people that are in that community friends and family and faith-based community.
“Those will be the people you will always have to draw to, now, 10 days from now, 6 months from now, 2 years from now. Hand-in-hand you’ll have to rebuild your community, and together you have to get through this emotionally.”
Talking with Gayland Kitch, the Emergency Management director for the city of Moore, about the tornadoes in the U.S. this week
On Wednesday morning, Gayland Kitch,the Emergency Management director for the city of Moore, was giving a tornado safety presentation to some seniors.
One of the slides he showed is a photo taken by a police lieutenant after the F-5 tornado struck Moore on May 3, 1999.
“It’s a Chevy pickup that’s on its side and it is bent completely around a tree so that the front wheels and the back wheels are touching,” he said. “Can you imagine the force that it would take to bend the steel frame of that pickup that way?”
On Wednesday, what has been called the “nation’s deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades” brought disaster to several states.
“Some of the damage pictures from Tuscaloosa looked like just what we looked like after May 3,” Kitch said. “The amount of energy and force that is all there is just incredible.”
The May 3, 1999 tornadoes claimed more than 40 lives and that was horrible, Kitch said. These tornadoes this week, claimed the lives of hundreds.
Hazardous weather outlook, National Weather Service, Norman
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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-
1105 AM CDT THU APR 28 2011
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN…WESTERN…
CENTRAL…AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA…AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE…THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION…
A DRY STABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE…PREVENTING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS.
PROBABILITY TABLE…
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT FRIDAY APR 29.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA…0 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK…
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN TO THE AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH SUNDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM
SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE ON FRIDAY AS A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH
STRENGTHENS OVER THE HIGH PLAINS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH
WITH GUSTS WELL OVER 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS AND MUCH OF OKLAHOMA. THIS HAS RESULTED IN THE ISSUANCE OF A
WIND ADVISORY.
THE STRONG WIND WILL COMBINE WITH VERY WARM TEMPERATURES…LOW
HUMIDITIES…AND DRY VEGETATION TO ELEVATE WILDFIRE POTENTIAL. THIS
WILL BE MOST PRONOUNCED OVER WESTERN PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA. AS A RESULT…A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FRIDAY
AFTERNOON ACROSS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND PARTS OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA.
Tillman and part of Jackson counties now in worst drought category, exceptional drought, U.S. Drought Monitor just released
