6/16 TALK: Panhandles/Kansas/Colorado

[Karen Politte]

Kind of bizarre. Gene is in Yukon blasting home and reports power flashes around the Mustang area.

It appears that the highest winds in that area at least are actually with the gust front - rather than the line of storms.

Here in Norman our power has flashed once or twice - so I have gathered matches and candles on the dining table (don't have a working flashlight cause I'm stupid) and had better get going to watch the gust front come through.

KR

 

[mikegeukes]

Mentions that winds will be strongest with the storms.
For the warning that includes Cleveland County (Norman)
http://weather.cod.edu/kamala/offs/KOUN/05...426.wuus54.html

AT 1123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST
OF MCLOUD TO WESTERN OKLAHOMA CITY TO 7 MILES WEST OF MINCO...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A STRONG GUST FRONT OF NORTHERLY WINDS
WILL PRECEDE THIS LINE OF STORMS BUT THE MOST SEVERE WINDS WILL BE
ASSOCIATED WITH STORMS..

Mike

 

[John MacKay]

I'm glad the storms in this area died off in intensity. All of you in western and central OK (especially OKC) be smart and keep safe.

 

[Anthony Silver]

Looks like Southern OKC and Norman is about ready to get blasted, the cell moving throught El Reno looks pretty wicked. The one in eastern Sections of OKC looks pretty intense as well. Everyone down there, be careful!

 

[Dick McGowan]

Here's a site of power outages given to me by a friend

Be careful guys

http://www.oge.com/systemwatch/

 

[Jay McCoy]

Here's a site of power outages given to me by a friend

Be careful guys

http://www.oge.com/systemwatch/

Thats a cool site. wish we had something like that here.

 

[Anthony Silver]

Here's a site of power outages given to me by a friend

Be careful guys

http://www.oge.com/systemwatch/

Kansas City Power and Light needs something like that. It would be helpful for when we have outages here.

 

[Jeff Wear]

it appears most of Cleveland and Oklahoma Counties missed the brunt of the storms as far as the wind is concerned. here in the southeast part of Norman I would guess our winds topped out in the 25-30 mph range - this is mostly a rain event for us. temperature dropped from 80F to 66F after the gust front came through.

 

[Susan Strom]

Over half the state is covered in detected lightning strikes right now accdg to the Vaisala Lightning Explorer. It looks quite incredible. If the winds can be dealt with, it could be a quality night for those going for the lightning photography.

 

[Chris Sokol]

Just got off the phone with my wife (who was out spotting for County tonight), and she gave me a long list of flooded areas in East Oklahoma County and West Lincoln County.

 

[Jason A.C. Brock]

Had a wind gust to 53 mph here in Wichita Falls and I did get soem good lightning shots from the first cell that came through earlier about 10:30 pm. Winds are still gusty here and have seen some power flashes. Lawn furniture is all over the place as well

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

Just got back from an interesting night. Observed gust front passage on HW9 just east of where it turns into the turnpike extension. This area has a great overlook to the N (the metro). Observed numerous power flashes along the leading edge, and we headed back towards Norman to ride out the storm.

As we were merging back onto I35, a brilliant green glow saturated our surroundings... almost instantly, power was off in southern portions of OUN. We hung out on the HW9 bridge over 77... and was overall a bit dissapointed. Despite this, we saw numerous LARGE limbs down across the city. I can only guess that the leading edge(which we didn't observe in OUN, but W of town) did the majority of the damage. One particular street S of Boyd, but E of McGee was completely blocked by a fallen branch.

McGee is notorious for flooding in OUN. My friend came up with an awesome idea... why don't we go kayaking! We hurried home and loaded up his kayak. We then proceeded to kayak up and down McGee just N of the Lindsey intersection.

Good times! (pics coming tomorrow)

Aaron

 

[fplowman]

My friend came up with an awesome idea... why don't we go kayaking! We hurried home and loaded up his kayak. We then proceeded to kayak up and down McGee just N of the Lindsey intersection.

Good times! (pics coming tomorrow)

Aaron

My friend you certainly are a man of adventure...

Have you thought about the Marine corp?? lol too funny

 

[mikegeukes]

Storm Summary for the NWS Norman CWA

Source: NWS Norman
Mike

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Two new LSRs from OUN indicate

1025 PM TSTM WND GST 4 SSE MARSHALL 36.10N 97.60W
06/16/2005 100 MPH LOGAN OK MESONET

OKLAHOMA MESONET

1135 PM TSTM WND GST 2 SSW MINCO 35.29N 97.96W
06/16/2005 89 MPH GRADY OK MESONET

OKLAHOMA MESONET

http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KOUN/0506172154.nwus54.html

Phil has some more info about these, I hope he'll post since it's pretty impressive.