We just got hammered with near baseball sized hail. New roof time probably…

Dime-sized hail and strong winds near Penn Square.

quarters and larger in NE Edmond .. wow

WOW! We haven't had hail like we just had in years. Not all that big. A few quarter sized among tons of dime and pea sized. But enough that the ground was white. The cat and my wife went and hid in the closet.

We just got hammered with near baseball sized hail. New roof time probably…

Location?

^Newcastle storm tornado warned. Chickasha coming next.

Tornado Warning for this cell now. ~6:45pm

wilshire county line…I just drive thru quarter/golfball about half
hour ago….FML.

Tornado Warning for this cell now. ~6:45pm


Location?


Deer Creek

Edit: nevermind. Replied to the wrong thing.

Brief heavy rain east side of Stillwater as of 6:45 pm with only .12" of rain. No hail. Another storm appears to be coming.

New MD out discussing increased LLJ flow to enhance the tornado threat heading into sunset.

Norman needs to pay attention to this next storm coming in.

The storms today are just wild. From no watches all day, then a sudden watch, then BOOM! Storms everywhere. Holy cow.

Jeez that is a monster storm west of Norman.

Chickasha eastward into Norman and Purcell will have a major tornado threat over the next hour. Storm is clearly getting organized on radar, and parameters should continue to improve between now and sunset.

Tornado Warning for the Tinker cell. ~7:04pm

This Blanchard to Norman cell is getting ‘that look’.

Wall cloud is absolutely massive on chaser streams.

Storm is producing tornado on the southern rotation. Heading south of Norman proper and into Noble-Slaughterville area.

Norman will get the hailcore.

Anyone taking bets on the cap holding tomorrow? :wink:

This aged well.

This aged well.

Good thing I’m not a gambler! But seriously the odds of the cap breaking were slim but there was just enough heating and upper level convergence. This time of year if anything develops it will likely be severe

This 'slight risk' day has produce more than the past two or three moderate risk days.

Storm coming back up from Moore to DT OKC is getting stronger. Flash flooding likely with this.

Good thing I’m not a gambler! But seriously the odds of the cap breaking were slim but there was just enough heating and upper level convergence. This time of year if anything develops it will likely be severe

Just giving you a hard time! It sucks! I was in Warner, OK for work. Driving back to OKC this evening, it was insane to see!

Apparently SkyNews 9 got hit by debris and it looks like Jim Gardner had to put the bird down in a field. He is off radar. I hope he was able to make a controlled landing.

Big storm still putting out tornados heading toward Tecumseh area.

Large wedge tornado currently ~8:54pm.

NWS using language in recent MD that speculated 150+ mph winds when it was south of Norman. Which would put it EF-3 range.

If this storm continues, would not be surprised to see a Tornado Emergency for Shawnee.

If this storm continues, would not be surprised to see a Tornado Emergency for Shawnee.

Storm is weakening now with the other cell bumping into it. ~9:17pm

It is possible this original monster storm may be absorbed into the western one and a new single supercell will continue east.

Tornado damage in Shawnee unfortunately looking quite bad.

https://www.tiktok.com/@nurt_28/video/7223949978354486574

Video of Jim Garner (sp?) talking with somebody at news 9 about his helicopter issues yesterday. Don’t know if he got hit with debris or hail. I would assume hail. Anyway, sounded like a stressful situation. Hopefully he made it to paul’s valley ok.

Today will be breezy N winds. Cooler Spring weather now through end of next week. We should also be catching weak systems along the flow while they move from NW to SE. This should aid in bringing rain to a lot of the drought-stricken areas of KS and OK.

The best part about this pattern shift... No more obnoxious south wind!


https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/gem/2023042000/gem_apcpn_scus_33.png

I will freely admit I didn't think the cap would break yesterday. I was running several errands around OKC and noting the air temps were around 78...so I thought, "no way..." Later, after I'd kinda stopped watching temps, I was downtown and it seemed "stickier," then I noticed air temp had shot up to about 86. I got out of one building, looked to the SW and saw the organized cumulus starting to tower up and thought "uh oh..."

Drive through about six miles of tiny hail in SW OKC last night and amazingly sustained no damage. I think I drove under the storm as it was ramping up, moving one way while I was driving another, and that gave me *just* enough time to escape the hail before it made anywhere near ping pong or golf ball size. I'm *very* fortunate.

[QUOTE=SoonerDave;1229672]I will freely admit I didn't think the cap would break yesterday. I was running several errands around OKC and noting the air temps were around 78...so I thought, "no way..." Later, after I'd kinda stopped watching temps, I was downtown and it seemed "stickier," then I noticed air temp had shot up to about 86. I got out of one building, looked to the SW and saw the organized cumulus starting to tower up and thought "uh oh..."

Drive through about six miles of tiny hail in SW OKC last night and amazingly sustained no damage. I think I drove under the storm as it was ramping up, moving one way while I was driving another, and that gave me *just* enough time to escape the hail before it made anywhere near ping pong or golf ball size. I'm *very* fortunate.

Same here. The NWS sent up a special weather balloon at 2pm and it showed a very weak cap with convection temperature of 86. I saw that we were already at 86 at 3pm with dewpoints in the lowers 60 and was like oh no this is not good I only had .17 over by outlet mall airport had .93 So much hail though at work near the airport though. Crazy how long it lasted.

Venice neighborhood only had pea-sized hail for about 5 minutes during the whole thing, so glad...

A ton of rain in Norman. Just a small amount of hail. Did get to dust out the old tornado shelter though.

https://www.tiktok.com/@nurt_28/video/7223949978354486574

Video of Jim Garner (sp?) talking with somebody at news 9 about his helicopter issues yesterday. Don’t know if he got hit with debris or hail. I would assume hail. Anyway, sounded like a stressful situation. Hopefully he made it to paul’s valley ok.

His windshield got taken out by 'Brick size" hail.

His windshield got taken out by 'Brick size" hail.Wow! I work with a bunch of helicopter flight trainers. They were talking this morning about how they would freak out it their windshield shattered. He deserves mucho cudos!

Measurable rain expected for western/northwestern Oklahoma next week?

Sunday - Thursday is the most favorable pattern for a statewide soaking in many months.

EURO forecasted rainfall totals through Saturday
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/gfs/2023042312/gfs_apcpn_scus_25.png

Finally!

Hooray for the rain!!!

Hooray for the rain!!!

Yessss!

We need to have an Arts Festival in August so we can be sure to get a solid week of rain.

We need to have an Arts Festival in August so we can be sure to get a solid week of rain.

Lets have one every 7-10 days from about March to September.

I was hoping for an all day rain event today but it looks like it's about over.

I was hoping for an all day rain event today but it looks like it's about over.

Will be more tonight.

New line forming with some heavy rain here.

We need to have an Arts Festival in August so we can be sure to get a solid week of rain.

I will be there from 9am -9pm tomorrow! In my down coat and rainboots. Happens every year on my day.

Will be more tonight.

At least I hope so. Seems like Central OK, aside from last Wednesday, has been missed by most of the storms.

1 1/4 inches in my rain gauge so far.

0.47" in my rain gauge thus far here on the southside, near Crossroads. Not as much as I was hoping for today but I know there's still more to come

0.47" in my rain gauge thus far here on the southside, near Crossroads. Not as much as I was hoping for today but I know there's still more to come

Same here: NW OKC near Expressway & 63rd. Half an inch when I checked around lunch. Mesonet's forecast still says OKC area will get an additional 2" through Thursday. Certainly hope that comes to fruition!

Looking fairly likely to get about 1" of rain from an MCS tomorrow morning. That will be the main action. Otherwise, could have random elevated showers dropping another 0.5"-1.0" anytime over the next 36 hours or so.

Friday Evening is also starting to look more favorable for precipitation chances.

From the way things are lined up to the west, it looks like we are going to get a lot more than an inch of rain.

From the way things are lined up to the west, it looks like we are going to get a lot more than an inch of rain.
I hope its not too late to save the wheat crop....but it IS late April. :-(

Bulk of rain for OKC is moving out, will still have some wrap-around showers swinging through this afternoon and early tomorrow.

Looks like a similar, but quicker system will move through late Friday. Looks like another good chance for majority of the state, with a slight favor to southern.

Really, really good to see a long-duration rain event like this across the state. Very reminiscent of 04/21/2018 which marked the beginning of the end of that severe drought as we transitioned into a wetter El Niño pattern. Hopefully this will turn out similarly.

That was a nice, steady soaking we received over the last couple of days.

Pretty much saved us from what had been a disastrous April.

Really, really good to see a long-duration rain event like this across the state. Very reminiscent of 04/21/2018 which marked the beginning of the end of that severe drought as we transitioned into a wetter El Niño pattern. Hopefully this will turn out similarly.

62% chance of an El Nino forming https://www.noaa.gov/news/what-to-watch-for-el-nino-likely-to-develop-summer

This is a glorious map - first time in possibly a year that it has been this green
https://data.prod.mesonet.org/data/public/mesonet/maps/daily/mesonet.rainfall.tenthinch.png?cache_bust=16826037 62756

62% chance of an El Nino forming https://www.noaa.gov/news/what-to-watch-for-el-nino-likely-to-develop-summer

I guess now we will have to worry about flooding in the next year. Not sure what is the better problem to have.

I guess now we will have to worry about flooding in the next year. Not sure what is the better problem to have.

Haha, if OKC could create 1 more reservoir, to hold more runoff from these flooding rains, that would be ideal. Hefner looking as ghastly as it does isn't a good thing.

Most of this will be late Friday night. Strong north winds will accompany this, especially after the rain moves out. The rest of the weekend looks fantastic. Great weather for the runners on Sunday.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/hrrr/2023042718/hrrr_apcpn_scus_41.png