Short-term forecast, National Weather Service, Norman

 

REGIONAL WEATHER DISCUSSION…

ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT
PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA.

AT 545 PM… RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF
SEILING IN DEWEY COUNTY… AS WELL AS NEAR AND WEST OF POND CREEK IN
GRANT COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF CAUSING SOME LOCALIZED
FLOODING… AS STORM MOTION WILL BE VERY SLOW. IN ADDITION… VERY
STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN FALL
INTO HOT AND DRY AIR NEAR THE GROUND. STORMS MAY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
SOUTHEAST THROUGH EARLY EVENING AS OUTFLOW FROM EARLIER STORMS
PUSHES IN THAT DIRECTION.

ALSO AT 545 PM… A THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED NORTH OF ADA… AND
ANOTHER NEAR COALGATE. THESE STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN…
ALONG WITH SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS. BRIEF RAIN SHOWERS WILL AFFECT
LOCATIONS NEAR PURCELL AND WAYNE IN MCCLAIN COUNTY… AND MAY
DEVELOP TOWARD THE AMBER AND CHICKASHA AREAS IN GRADY COUNTY.

LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN OR THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW WILL OBSERVE
TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES THROUGH 7 PM…
WITH GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS.

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