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To: dirtboy
Throw in strong surface-level winds at a 45 degree angle to the jet and you have the ingredients to incorporate rotation.

Thank you for the great posts DB! I'm in western Oklahoma and looking to my North and East I can see huge supercell Mammatus clouds.......I think most of the activity today will be East of me, but I have my storm cellar door unlocked and ready. Pleasr keep the posts coming...thanks.

41 posted on 04/14/2012 9:38:05 AM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: ScreamingFist

A couple of warnings issued in far NW Oklahoma:

... A Tornado Warning remains in effect for northwestern Edwards...
northeastern Hodgeman... extreme southeastern Ness... northwestern
Pawnee and rush counties until 315 PM CDT...

At 306 PM CDT... trained weather spotters reported a tornado 3 miles
west of Burdett. Doppler radar showed this tornadic storm moving
northeast at 40 mph. Large destructive hail up to baseball size is
also expected with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Burdett...
Rozel...
mainly rural areas of northeastern Hodgeman... northwestern
Edwards... northwestern Pawnee... rush and southeastern Ness
counties.

The first tornado has dissipated, however another storm just west of
the previous storm appears to be developing another tornado.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

Take cover now. Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
sturdy building. Avoid windows. If in a Mobile home... a vehicle or
outdoors... move to the closest substantial shelter and protect
yourself from flying debris.

Heavy rainfall may obscure this tornado. Do not wait to see or hear
the tornado. Take cover now.

Lat... Lon 3835 9956 3835 9944 3835 9926 3835 9903
3828 9914 3798 9960 3809 9982
time... Mot... loc 2008z 228deg 36kt 3821 9957
hail 2.75in


The National Weather Service in Norman has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
northeastern Harper County in northwestern Oklahoma...
extreme Northwestern Woods County in northwestern Oklahoma...

* until 345 PM CDT

* at 316 PM CDT... National Weather Service meteorologists detected
a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado. This
dangerous storm was located 7 miles north of Selman... moving
northeast at 40 mph.

* This tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas
of northeastern Harper and extreme Northwestern Woods
counties.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

Get in... get down and cover up. Take cover now in a storm shelter
or an interior room of a sturdy building. Stay away from doors and
windows.

Lat... Lon 3687 9920 3683 9952 3694 9962 3700 9953
3700 9920
time... Mot... loc 2016z 226deg 36kt 3691 9950


82 posted on 04/14/2012 1:33:24 PM PDT by dirtboy
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