Post Tagged with: "Oklahoma"

Another Tricky Winter Forecast for Oklahoma

A very powerful arctic cold front will be impacting much of the lower 48 this week, bringing the coldest air in over a year to much of the plains. Several waves of jet stream energy will come out across Oklahoma between Thursday and Monday, resulting in all sorts of winter […]

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Winter Weather Set to Invade the Southern Plains

A big blast of arctic air is set to invade the Great Plains the next few days, bringing the chance for winter precipitation to parts of the region. I am not expecting this to be a significant storm, but it will bring very cold temperatures and the chance of all […]

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Weekly Severe Weather Outlook: October 7, 2013

With the beginning of the fall or “second” severe weather season here on the Great Plains, coupled with the tropics remaining quiet, I am going to shift this week’s discussion from the tropics back closer to home and talk about severe weather. The fall severe weather season started quite emphatically […]

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Dirt Road Adventures: Antelope Hills

Overview Now nestled on the western plains of Oklahoma, the Antelope Hills were once a significant landmark for both the Plains Indians and the western settlers, as they marked the international border between the United States and Mexico. They sit in one of the most scenic locations in the entire […]

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Why the May 31st El Reno Tornado was Downgraded to EF-3

The deadly tornado that ripped through Canadian County, OK on May 31st has been downgraded back to EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Back in early June, the National Weather Service initially rated the tornado EF-3 after surveying the damage, but after receiving data from several doppler radars in the […]

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The Hunters Become the Hunted

GRANITE, OK — I chased three separate clusters of storms across western Oklahoma. I first captured an isolated supercell north of Clinton, but did have to battle some hills and a less-than-ideal road network. When that storm began to weaken, I dropped south and captured some gorgeous pictures of a […]

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A Weather Event of the Most Absurd Kind

NORMAN, OK — A day that started as an epic bust/lack of a storm chase turned out to be anything but disappointing. It was an event that nobody could have predicted (not even the models), featuring golf ball sized hail and freezing rain falling out of a severe thunderstorm at […]

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Epic Spring Grand Finale

AMBER, OK — Another round of severe weather brought quite the grand finale to May here in Central Oklahoma. With a Moderate Risk up, all of Oklahoma west of Interstate 35 was fair game for a target area. Just after 3 PM, storms began to explode on the dryline in […]

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