Oklahoma Severe Weather Discussion - May 2012

[venture]

Main complex should be into OKC by right around Midnight.

[Roadhawg]

Venture... is the chat room working? I haven't had a post show up in about 15 minutes and I refreshed a couple times.

[Roadhawg]

ooops nevermind

[sacolton]

Look at the size of that monster storm coming from the north! It's Stormageddon! (screams)

[OKCisOK4me]

Lol

[ljbab728]

It looks like the storm intenstiy has gone down considerably as it approaches the metro.

[Bunty]

It might be good for a meteorological study as to why that storm system diminished so much before it could drop very deep into Oklahoma. Eventually, the storms weren't even following the gust front. The storms turned east and started drying up. However, the east side of it maintained some strength as it approached the Tulsa area.

[Dustin]

[bandnerd]

It might be good for a meteorological study as to why that storm system diminished so much before it could drop very deep into Oklahoma. Eventually, the storms weren't even following the gust front. The storms turned east and started drying up. However, the east side of it maintained some strength as it approached the Tulsa area.

Dry slot!

[venture]

It might be good for a meteorological study as to why that storm system diminished so much before it could drop very deep into Oklahoma. Eventually, the storms weren't even following the gust front. The storms turned east and started drying up. However, the east side of it maintained some strength as it approached the Tulsa area.

Started to see some of this discussion come out from the SPC late last night. There was two ways it was going to go yesterday...

1) The Tuesday storms worked over the atmosphere so much that they removed most of the moisture for the storms to feed off of in Western and Central OK.
- or -
2) The dry atmosphere would aid in the ability for winds to pick up speed without having to put up with much resistance from a moisture rich atmosphere.

So like we've seen in the past, it is a very fine line to balance between. Luckily we only saw sporadic reports for 60-75 mph wind gusts as the line came through. Had we seen a bit more moisture return in northern OK, that would have assisted the complex in staying together. We still would have needed some dry air to assist with getting the wind speeds up. Luckily it was a bit too dry so we were able to avoid a derecho from forming. Everything else was in place for it to occur, except for that one little thing.

[Kaye]

It just felt dryer yesterday than Tuesday. I'm very glad for the way it turned out, especially considering the damage caused by Tuesday's storms.

[Easy180]

Was watching The Weather Channel last night at 9:00 and it played out exactly as their computer model timeline...Was glad to see it cause I had to catch up from two hours of sleep Tue night

[venture]

Wait...they still show weather on The Weather Channel? Sorry, stopped watching it probably 10 years ago when they went over the top with their tv programming breaking away from actual weather coverage to series.

[venture]

Quick blurb for tonight...

Tomorrow - Severe risk pretty marginal. Could see storms from the TX PH/SW KS roll through overnight as part of a complex. Some areas could see heavy rain.

Saturday - Slight risk of severe weather as another complex could form west and move SE over the state. More juice in the state as the atmosphere will be recovered by then from yesterday's front. Nothing outrageous just yet.

Longer range...GFS keeps us in a period of instability for the next week or so. Won't get into specifics right now, but could see at least an outside risk of severe weather somewhere in the state everyday through Monday the 11th (that as far as the current run has gone up to so far...rest still processing). It is almost as if our severe weather season was delayed about a month-ish...so our May will actually happen in June.

[SoonerQueen]

All I want to request is that when planning the weather, let's cut out the hail. I can handle rain, thunderstorms, tornado warnings, high wind, but this softball size hail has to go.We drove the cars to Penn Square Mall parking garage to keep them safe, but the house has 5 broken windows and probably needs a new roof again. Oh well, the joys of living in OKC.lol

[Easy180]

Wait...they still show weather on The Weather Channel? Sorry, stopped watching it probably 10 years ago when they went over the top with their tv programming breaking away from actual weather coverage to series.

Think it's only on for one hour a night lol

[Roadhawg]

Just when I thought it was safe to take the top of the jeep down.