Short-term forecast, from the National Weather Service, Norman

SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
328 PM CST FRI DEC 14 2012

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-
328 PM CST FRI DEC 14 2012

.NOW…
AN AREA OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN
OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. THE RAIN WILL MAINLY BE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE
FROM WETUMKA TO ARDMORE TO MARIETTA. THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS WILL
PRODUCE RAINFALL OF AROUND ONE-QUARTER OF AN INCH PER HOUR…
ALTHOUGH MOST AREAS WILL RECEIVE MUCH LESS.

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WESTERN
TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WEST TEXAS AND IS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST. THESE
STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE ARNETT… CHEYENNE… HOLLIS… QUANAH…
CROWELL AND KNOX CITY AFTER 5 PM. THERE WILL BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF
TIME EARLY THIS EVENING WHEN ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 55 TO
65 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR WESTERN SECTIONS OF OKLAHOMA AND
NORTH TEXAS… THEREFORE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN
ISSUED. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS
OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE EVENING… ALTHOUGH THE CHANCE
OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DECREASE AS INSTABILITY DECREASES THROUGH THE
EVENING.

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