LIVE: Tornado warnings near Oklahoma City
Source: 11 alive
LIVE: Tornado warnings near Oklahoma City
3:25 PM, May 30, 2013
(WXIA) -- Tornado warnings have been issued for areas near Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma after storms popped up in areas ravaged by storms early last week.
A new tornado watch was issued early Thursday afternoon for parts of Oklahoma and other states through the nation's midsection as part of a severe weather outbreak.
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, issued the watch as one of several in an area expecting severe weather running from north Texas to upper Wisconsin and Michigan.
The watch statement said that people in the watch area may face threats from intense tornadoes along with very large hail events, with hail up to 3 inches in diameter, and damaging wind gusts exceeding 70 mph.
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Boomerproud
(7,979 posts)Do whatever you must to keep yourself and your loved ones away from danger. Love to all.
Behind the Aegis
(54,052 posts)We are under a Tornado Watch until 11pm tonight, and a Flash Flood Warning until Saturday. We are having downpours off and on, with LOTS of lightening.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I'm guessing your house has a good ground on your electricity, but you never know.
I lost stuff years ago during a hurricane, even with that. Not from a lightning strike, it was the surge as the transformers blew up.
And you two better stay close there. Keep us posted if it's safe to do so. Good luck!
Oklahoma isn't out of tornado season yet, ugh!
brooklynite
(94,950 posts)bvar22
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bvar22
(39,909 posts)...to the SW of our rural location.
Warnings coming over our Fire/Emergency Band Radio.
"Tornado ON the Ground heading for that (small Arkansas) town"
bvar22
(39,909 posts)All First Responders, Fire Depts, and Emergency Aid personel from surrounding districts dispatched to Hatfield, Arkansas.
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Bring Chain Saws and Heavy Equipment.
Very quiet at our location.
Calm, hot, & muggy.
The heavy rain and thunder has stopped.
I believe this one passed to our south,
but we couldn't see or hear.
Repeated calls for assistance over the County Emergency Dispatch radio.
"Trees on the house" "roads blocked by blow downs"
bvar22
(39,909 posts)"Tornado heading your way."
County Emergency Radio Band getting chaotic.
Responders asking "Where do we go?"
Our district is a few miles north.
We haven't been dispatched yet,
but my wife & I are ready to go.
Very quiet here.
Low thunder rumbling in the background.
Rain stopped.
alsame
(7,784 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Haven't heard calls for any Emergency Medical personnel.
Lots of debris on roads.
More t-Storm cells off to the West look worse on radar than the one that just passed.
No reports from towns further along the track line yet.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...from the approaching storms.
These look like they will be a little further south.
Clean Up continues in our district.
No injuries so far.
Debris, broken gas lines, trees down, some building damage....
These areas are very rural.
New reports a damage from the new storm to our south just coming in now.
Very quiet here. Hot, mild rain.
Listening to the County Dispatch.
Our Fire Chief called on the cell phone and told us to Stand By.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)"Tornado On the Ground,
headed in your direction.
Take cover immediately."
THis is a NEW tornado, different from the earlier one,
a little further south.
alsame
(7,784 posts)check in later so we know you are okay. I'm all worried for you now
bvar22
(39,909 posts)It is nice to know somebody out there cares.
Our little place is fairly well protected by the geography/geology.
We live on a the crest of a razor back ridge.
There are a series of razor back ridges to our west.
While we get some powerful straight line winds across the hill top,
the succession of ridges to our west tend to disrupt circulation.
The tornadoes tend to pass through the valley to our south,
along with the only main highway in this area, Hwy 71.
The towns I mentioned above are all along this two lane highway in the valley,
the path of least resistance.
We follow a storm protocol at our house when heavy T-Storms approach.
We completely unplug all electronic equipment (computers, TVs, stereos, etc.)
to avoid damage from lightening strikes,
so it gets a little boring. We love to read, but that is hard to do with the Emergency Radio blaring.
I'm sitting at a notebook, on battery, with a battery cell link watching the weather radar and listening to the county emergency radio.
with nothing else to do, so I thought I would "Live Blog".
My wife and I are active Volunteer Fire Fighters and Emergency Responders for our rural dept, and my Wife is the only Medical First Responder for 60 square miles.
We thought we were going to be dispatched, but so far, we are just standby.
It is nice to know somebody is Out there,
and cares.
If you are ever in this neighborhood,
drop in for Green Beans & Cornbread!
alsame
(7,784 posts)doing, I feel better now
I'm a New Yorker, never been in a tornado but they scare the hell out of me. And I worry about everyone in their path, especially my DU friends
I LOVE Southern food - can you send those beans and cornbread to NY?
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Nothing on radar to our west.
Clean Up continues.
Lots of "Big Oaks" blocking highways
being pushed aside with Bulldozers and Skidder Trucks.
No calls for Medical Assistance.
Haven't heard too many reports of structure damage.
The storms are moving on toward Central and East Arkansas.
The general pattern is for them to intensify after they pass over the
ridges of the Ouachita Mountains into the flatlands of Central and East Arkansas.
I wish the flantlanders well this evening.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Our Chickens have come out of hiding,
have spread out across the front yard,
and are going about their normal Chicken Business of foraging for seeds, herbs, and bugs.
The Chickens KNOW.
We listen.