Oklahoma Severe Weather Discussion - July & August 2011

[ou48A]

Yeah, unfortunately it took out the power here from around 7PM last night to almost 5AM. The most aggravating thing it was only about 20 houses in the neighborhood impacts. I live on a street that forms a "U" and all the houses inside the U were without power, and those on the outside (except for the 6 on the bottom of it) were perfectly fine. Same crap happened during the major ice storm a few years back...at least it didn't take 6 days this time. Stupid OG&E.

Underground utilities can significantly reduce the down time due to storm damage.
When we were looking for our current home having underground utilities was on the must have list.

[SoonerDave]

Underground utilities can significantly reduce the down time due to storm damage.
When we were looking for our current home having underground utilities was on the must have list.

Yeah, I must admit to being spoiled *rotten* having essentially grown up with underground utilities. I know its cost-impossible, but I wish they could just bury every phone and power line in OKC and it would make the winter ice storms at least fractionally more bearable...

[venture]

The sad thing, they are buried in our neighborhood. LOL

They finally showed up at the area where all the transformers or what not were and blew one up - or at least created a nice blue and white light show. Kind of annoying that if the entire sub division isn't out, we end up being one of the last areas addressed. Why they don't have some built in redundancy to ensure if 98% of the neighborhood is lit the other 2% still gets some juice.

Any who...more storms popping just to our west.

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
231 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL CADDO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 231 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANADARKO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARDS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH...

[Thunder]

I noticed how each day, the storms try to make sure everyone get rain and going for those that didn't get rain previously. lol

[venture]

Scattered severe and strong storms continue. We have 3 outflow boundaries all converging on the Metro area. This could assist in additional storm development in the Metro over the next 2-3 hours before things die down.

[Thunder]

Scattered severe and strong storms continue. We have 3 outflow boundaries all converging on the Metro area. This could assist in additional storm development in the Metro over the next 2-3 hours before things die down.

Hope that happen! What I don't like is how the temperature is quickly rebounding. I was hoping it gets stuck in the 80s for our daytime highs for a couple days.

[venture]

This pretty much sums it up. Chance of precip over the next week or so is around 10% should a shower/storm be able to pop up in the heat. A new upper ridge may try to form towards the end of NEXT week (don't confuse it with this week in the discussion below) that *MAY* attempt to get us in a bit of a Northwest Flow to try to bring something in. Chances are though it doesn't happen and we are locked into this heat through August or until a tropical blessing comes our way.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
212 AM CDT SUN JUL 17 2011

.DISCUSSION...
THERE IS LITTLE NEW TO SAY THAT HASN`T BEEN SAID OVER THE LAST
MONTH. AT LEST THROUGH MID-WEEK THE UPPER HIGH IS EXPECTED TO BE
CENTERED OVER OK AND KS WITH PERSISTENT HEAT. THE HEAT ADVISORY HAS
BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL FRIDAY FOR HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 TO 110
EACH DAY IN MOST LOCATIONS. THE MARV AND ECMWF FORECAST THAT THE
UPPER HIGH WILL MOVE EAST IN THE END OF THE WEEK, BUT DO NOT
INDICATE THAT ANY WEAK UPPER WAVE WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS. RAIN CHANCES REMAIN NEAR ZERO APART FROM ISOLATED SHOWERS
WHICH MAY OCCUR IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ONE OR TWO DAYS.

[MikeinOKC]

I have been enjoying this thread the last couple weeks. If anyone else likes weather you should check this OKC Weather blog out. It has a lot of good info http://www.OklahomaWeatherTracker.com

[Roadhawg]

ugh

[Thunder]

Anyone want a BBQ Venture bonfire?

[venture]

I have been enjoying this thread the last couple weeks. If anyone else likes weather you should check this OKC Weather blog out. It has a lot of good info http://www.OklahomaWeatherTracker.com

Not sure what it provides. I see a lot of regurgitated info being shouted out in ALL CAPS to make it represent how NWS products are delivered. I've looked at it a couple times and never really found much value. "OKC's #1 Online Weather Source!" -- according to? LOL

Pardon me if I appear a little...umm...rude. But I've always been suspicious of people that join a forum and their very first post is a linked advertisement to another site. The comment really looks like the spam I delete daily from my blog. A classic "Omg great site? Glad I found this. Hey check out this page as well it is really awesome uber great also! --insertrandomlinkhere--" message.

If that isn't your intent, I apologize and welcome to OKCTalk. Perhaps, when joining a forum in the future, contribute to discussion instead of immediately linking sites to take people away.

[kevinpate]

I hope next time I ever gritch that it is cold, thunder booms in a clear sky and the clouds shift to spell out 07172011 just to remind me to shut the freak up right then and there.

[venture]

I hope next time I ever gritch that it is cold, thunder booms in a clear sky and the clouds shift to spell out 07172011 just to remind me to shut the freak up right then and there.

I'll save this quote for when we start the Winter Discussion threads in December. LOL

[OKCMallen]

i have been enjoying this thread the last couple weeks. If anyone else likes weather you should check this okc weather blog out. It has a lot of good info http://www.oklahomaweathertracker.com

trooooolll!!!!!!!!!!

[BG918]

Any chance as the high pressure moves east that the jetstream could finally move south bringing us some relief? I feel sorry for those on the East Coast who are about to experience extremely hot temps and are not used to it like we are. The high moving east definitely is more favorable for bringing tropical systems up here...if there was any activity in the Gulf...

[venture]

Could increase moisture as we get a flow off the gulf...which might help start more afternoon storms. I wouldn't expect much, but who knows. Still some hope next week of the ridge building west and us going into a northwest flow pattern for a bit.

[bandnerd]

Any chance as the high pressure moves east that the jetstream could finally move south bringing us some relief? I feel sorry for those on the East Coast who are about to experience extremely hot temps and are not used to it like we are. The high moving east definitely is more favorable for bringing tropical systems up here...if there was any activity in the Gulf...

Wait, we're used to this?

[BG918]

Wait, we're used to this?

Not multiple weeks like this summer, but yes we are not strangers to extremely hot weather in Oklahoma.

[Roadhawg]

I'm thinking they can just replay the TV weather until things change

[venture]

So some hope...about 1% of hope in the forecast. LOL

Models continue to go with a NW flow starting later next week. GFS is also developing a tropical low in the gulf moving into TX and up into Central OK middle of next week. We'll see if this actually even happens. The models love to develop tropical systems and then nothing happens.

[Thunder]

I was thinking that it was starting early for us. August will probably be a rainy month.

Btw, there has been some indication that La Nina may be returning this Fall. La Nina...

[kevinpate]

Wait, we're used to this?

Some of us are feeling used up by it.

I do not know if it's the warmest summer since '76 or '77, but I do wonder.

[bandnerd]

Not multiple weeks like this summer, but yes we are not strangers to extremely hot weather in Oklahoma.

I was referring to the multiple weeks like this...record-setting heat over and over type weather. It was a little tongue-in-cheek, though. Much is lost over the interwebz.

[venture]

I was thinking that it was starting early for us. August will probably be a rainy month.

Btw, there has been some indication that La Nina may be returning this Fall. La Nina...

We are currently leaving La Nina for a fairly neutral weather pattern. Majority of forecast models keep us neutral through early 2012. Only a few models are indicating a return to La Nina again.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...-fcsts-web.pdf

[venture]

Sit down.

Are you sitting?

Securely? Okay.

A break, albeit small, may be on the way. (in Craig Ferguson voice) I Knoooooooww. Now this is a ways out and we all know how models like to tease and then never verify. However, it does appear Saturday August 6th might have some hope. Stop laughing. Yes...over 2 weeks ago. Gawd, it is the best I can do so humor me. Temps look like they will hole in the 80s to low 90s that day, before going back up. Some chance for storms that day too, but who knows if it will actually happen.

Otherwise the long range looks dry, except for may some scattered storms over the next few days, and hot. Temps remaining 95 to 110 through August 7th (except for that one brief break). Towards August 6th and 7th, we could have a tropical system in the gulf as well move towards Texas. But it is just a fantasy system as models are horrible in predicting tropical storm formation more than a few days out - and even then it isn't all that good.