Posted on 05/10/2010 11:38:13 AM PDT by Crazieman
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 147 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 125 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS CENTRAL AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA
EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 125 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.
...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF FORT SILL OKLAHOMA TO 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF WICHITA KANSAS. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 146...
DISCUSSION...AN DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT IS DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN KS AND WESTERN/CENTRAL OK THIS AFTERNOON AS AIRMASS RAPIDLY DESTABILIZES AND UPPER TROUGH APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INITIALLY DEVELOP ALONG THE SURFACE DRYLINE OVER WESTERN OK...THEN PROGRESSING EASTWARD THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TORNADIC SUPERCELLS ARE A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY WITH THE THREAT OF STRONG AND LONG-TRACK TORNADOES. VERY LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY IN THE STRONGER CELLS.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 4 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25045.
Said a trailer park was destroyed that wasn’t that near the tornado.
So no tornado’s up your alley?
***My high resolution radar is picking up a donut signature, which is downright incredible.***
OH D-mn! The rare “COP MAGNET”! Get out of the way!
Ok, that was uncalled for but I just couldn’t help it.
This is really something. Love’s truckstop destroyed in Choctaw.
Injuries and damage at Chawktaw road and 40, per TWC.
Fatalities, I believe at the truck stop. Not sure the number.
Nowhere to run...
I had many a late night breakfast at that truck stop.
Prayers up to all in harms way!
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
SOUTHEASTERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHEASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 649 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS AND STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING
A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF CLEARVIEW...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. A LARGE TORNADO IS ON THE
GROUND...THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION...TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY!
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CANADIAN...CHECOTAH...CLEARVIEW...COUNCIL HILL...DEWAR...EUFAULA...
GRAYSON...HANNA...HENRYETTA...HOFFMAN...OKTAHA...PHAROAH...
RAIFORD...RENTIESVILLE...SCHULTER...STIDHAM...VIVIAN...WELEETKA AND
WILSON.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 221 AND 268.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! THIS IS A
LIFE THREATENING SITUATION!
The storm front is just reaching Tulsa (I’m at I-44 and S. Peoria)... and that “line” runs from Kansas to Texas ... hoo-boy!
And I just saw on the news, a few minutes ago (about ten minutes) that there are tornadoes in several places, along I-35 from Texas up to Oklahoma City ... (thereabouts)...
Anyway, we’re looking for it to hit pretty soon here in Tulsa. Oh... and just south of Tulsa, I think there was a tornado somewhere around the Henryetta area (not sure about that one).
Oh... and the hail... they were talking on the news that they had “grapefruit size hail” in one area of Oklahoma. Earlier they had been talking about getting softball size hail but they did actually get what they say is “grapefruit size hail” ...
Gotta watch that one... don’t want those marks all over the car, doncha know ... :-)
I didn’t realize you were so close! I’m at I-44 & Harvard! Howdy neighbor! We’ve got that awful color going on in the sky right now...but Tulsa looks okay so far.
Ahhh... yeah... that’s pretty close all right ... I’ll have to wave the next time I pass Harvard going along I-44 ... :-)
Very large tornado on the ground at Lake Texoma in Grayson County, TX as per special report on tv here in Dallas.
We call the result “Custom Body Work” on our cars.....red
I was in Okmulgee some years back and hail storm happened upon us.
I had a brand new car and drove right into the car wash.
I guess the roof was pretty thick because I was watching across the street, to a gas station and the hail was coming right through the covering and onto the cars under it.
I just stood there wide eyed and amazed. I also thought “Lucky me, this roof held up”.
That was quick thinking ... :-) ... fortunately I haven’t been caught in a bad one like that ...
Just talked to my Mom, she is North Tulsa and said it seemed fine so far but she was expecting WW III any minute.
Guess Doppler shows a real battle front that, like you say, extends KS to TX. That’s huge!
Stay in touch.
It’s pretty quiet right here, at the moment... in fact, some blue sky, even though it’s getting dark outside now. But I don’t know what’s coming down the pike, though ...
There was sort of a storm front that moved through this area of Tulsa (south), about an hour ago — but I suspect that the worst was both to the north and to the south of us. So maybe we missed it.
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