Oklahoma Severe Weather Discussion - July & August 2011

[bandnerd]

No just wondering if there is a particular reason. I think it possibly could be due to humidity levels being higher in that part of the state.

That's exactly why.

[OUman]

Yep, Tulsa being in the state's "Green Country" and other counties surrounding it have much more foliage cover than the rest of the state, thus more evapotranspiration effects (moisture exchange by trees), leading to higher humidity levels.

[BG918]

Yep, Tulsa being in the state's "Green Country" and other counties surrounding it have much more foliage cover than the rest of the state, thus more evapotranspiration effects (moisture exchange by trees), leading to higher humidity levels.

Makes sense. I guess the higher terrain in far NE Oklahoma and especially SE Oklahoma offsets the effect of the trees and lakes as those counties are not in Excessive Heat Warnings either.

Not that it makes a huge difference anyway. This pattern is not going anywhere anytime soon either. More hot and dry weather on the way for the next couple weeks unless we get some help from the Tropics..

[venture]

What? It might actually rain? Well there is hope. Not much, but it is there. Some...some... consistency in the models with this, so we'll go with it and see what happens. I would not expect anything widespread, but a few people could get some help from the heat - for an hour.

Monday Night - very slight chance in Central and North Central OK.
Wednesday - Slight chance Central and East.
Friday, Sat & Sun - Far Eastern OK.
Following Monday into Tuesday - South central and South East OK.
Tuesday the 26th - Maybe some statewide. Wouldn't hold my breath.

We'll see what happens. Towards the end of the month, would could move into more of a northwesterly flow aloft as the ridge builds into the west and a trough forms east. Might help chances for storms. Help from the tropics right now looks nil...so enjoy buying up that OG&E stock.

[venture]

Spotty storms this evening and tonight mainly west of US 81. Doesn't look like anything here for now.

[venture]

Isolated strong to severe storms possible for the rest of the day.

SPC's Take:

...SRN KS/NRN OK AREA...
UPR VORT NOW OVER EXTREME NWRN OK SHOULD MOVE SLOWLY ENE
TODAY/TNGT...ON WRN FRINGE OF LWR MS VLY UPR RIDGE. SFC HEATING AND
WEAK ASCENT WITH SYSTEM MAY FOSTER ISOLD TO WDLY SCTD TSTMS OVER
PARTS OF NW TX...WRN/NRN OK...AND SRN KS. GIVEN VERY WARM/DRY SUB
CLOUD LAYER ENVIRONMENT...SOME STORMS MAY YIELD MICROBURSTS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

[Thunder]

Explosive storm right over us. Heavy rain!!! Flowers dancing out there. So cute!

[Jesseda]

finally it is raining!!!!

[OKCMallen]

I hear thunder, but no rain downtown.

[Jesseda]

it is raining at the airport right now,
maybe it will get to you in downtown in a minute or two

[venture]

Bulletin - immediate broadcast requested
severe thunderstorm warning
national weather service norman ok
115 pm cdt tue jul 12 2011

the national weather service in norman has issued a

* severe thunderstorm warning for...
Northern cleveland county in central oklahoma...
Southeastern oklahoma county in central oklahoma...

* until 200 pm cdt

* at 115 pm cdt...national weather service radar indicated a severe
thunderstorm near moore...moving northeast at 10 mph.

Hazards in the warning include...
Hail up to the size of quarters...
Damaging wind gusts to 65 mph...

* locations in the warning include central oklahoma city...choctaw...
Del city...forest park...midwest city...moore...nicoma park...
Spencer...stanley draper lake...tinker air force base and valley
brook.

[Jesseda]

its becoming a frog strangler out here at will rogers

[OKCMallen]

Rain downtown!

[venture]

New strong to sever storm over SW OKC/Mustang area. Hail and damaging wind threat increasing.

[venture]

Bulletin - immediate broadcast requested
severe thunderstorm warning
national weather service norman ok
232 pm cdt tue jul 12 2011

the national weather service in norman has issued a

* severe thunderstorm warning for...
Southeastern canadian county in central oklahoma...
Northwestern cleveland county in central oklahoma...
Northeastern grady county in central oklahoma...
Extreme northwestern mcclain county in central oklahoma...
Southwestern oklahoma county in central oklahoma...

* until 330 pm cdt

* at 230 pm cdt...national weather service radar indicated a severe
thunderstorm over southern oklahoma city...3 miles southwest of
will rogers airport...moving north at 10 mph.

Hazards in the warning include...
Hail up to the size of quarters...
Damaging wind gusts to 65 mph...
Very heavy rain...

Severe wind gusts may extend well outside the rain areas...reaching
surrounding areas...including yukon and mustang.

* locations in the warning include bethany...forest park...mustang...
Newcastle...nichols hills...valley brook...warr acres and western
oklahoma city.

[venture]

Well unless something radical happens with temps, today will end the streak of 13 consecutive days of 100+ at KOKC/WRWA. Which of course means nothing for those of us who haven't gotten a drop yet and are still above 100. LOL

[Achilleslastand]

Here in the nw metro we got a good amount of rain even had to pull over a couple of times because it was coming down so hard.

[Thunder]

Its still raining and raining and raining. This is a huge surprise for us! Hopefully this greatly improve the drought conditions and remove water restrictions for OKC metro areas and Norman, because that is a whole lot of water.

Looking at the KOCO app for OKC, the current temp is 79. LOL

[venture]

New storm moving into Norman and Noble from the SW is intensifying some. Could see more heavy rain and strong winds.

[Thunder]

Thanks for bringing us all the rain, Venture! <3

[Thunder]

[Thunder]

Rainfall totals. Hope everyone sees this before its changed.

[venture]

Thanks for bringing us all the rain, Venture! <3

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.

[kevinpate]

nice lawn amongst what appears to be a well kept collection of lawns up and down your street laddie.

[Thunder]

nice lawn amongst what appears to be a well kept collection of lawns up and down your street laddie.

I tried to keep it really green this year, but mom kept griping about water usage. Watering nearly every day make it full and really lushy green, but haven't really done that this year. And the oak tree on the right needs trimming again to regrow grass. :-(