Christel Danning
EF0
NWS here (FW area, for Joshua) is calling for .26 total accumulations by Wednesday morning, not starting until tomorrow - will keep an eye out for this area.
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Ice Storm- OK/MO/AR/TX/KY
- Thread starter Jeff Piotrowski
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Just did a little running around in Moore, OK and roads here are glazed and definitely more slick than not, coverage-wise. Reports from OKC are about the same.
Light mist right now...
Light mist right now...
filasntiels
I am outside of Granby, MO. Not looking forward to a major ice storm!
J Kinkaid
Can Kentucky be added to this thread ? Looks like some pretty good snows on the backside of this system but the nam might be a little bit agressive with the amounts
PS Ice storm warning just issued for the entire Dallas metroplex
PS Ice storm warning just issued for the entire Dallas metroplex
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Brendon Lindsey
EF3
New MD out suggesting the build up of Ice from Drizzle... My dad in Enid, OK said the raods are slick there the most slick in a while... and just coated with ice... He saw 5 wrecks within a 3 mile span. In town.
Andrew Francis
EF3
Wow. They just covered NE Texas in Ice Storm Warnings. Thats pretty drastic considering no advisory before.
I just woke up here in Edmond OK (n. OKC) Everything outside is glazed very lightly so far. I can see the 'whiteish glow' coming off the trees and rooftops, as well as the streets. This of course indicating the light glaze we have received from the drizzle. I just checked closings and suprisngly alot of schools and services have already closed for the day due to the anticipated ice. I am pretty suprised at how this event is panning out. I wasn't expecting any Precip until later this evening into tonight.
I just woke up here in Edmond OK (n. OKC) Everything outside is glazed very lightly so far. I can see the 'whiteish glow' coming off the trees and rooftops, as well as the streets. This of course indicating the light glaze we have received from the drizzle. I just checked closings and suprisngly alot of schools and services have already closed for the day due to the anticipated ice. I am pretty suprised at how this event is panning out. I wasn't expecting any Precip until later this evening into tonight.
Angie Norris
EF5
Streets here in Norman are "wet", meaning slick and hazardous, sidewalks are trecharous to say the least. OU just cancelled classes for the rest of the day. Got light freezing rain falling ATM with something (can't really tell if it's sleet or snow) mixed in.
Karla Dorman
Drizzling now, but upgraded to an Ice Storm WARNING here in North Central Texas, from 6:00 PM this evening through noon Wednesday, with .24 inch ice accumulation expected (with isol amts to .50 inch). CRAZY!
rdale
EF5
Looks like they've downgraded the threat
I don't understand that sort of precision being used in a forecast...
Jeff Snyder
EF5
RDale,
I assume the significance of "up to 0.24" " is because some other type of advisory or warning starts when expected ice accums are 0.25" or greater. Perhaps that's the diff between freezing rain advisory vs. ice storm warning for the DFW CWA? Using that sort of precision is, as you alluded, a little ridiculous, so I assume it has some significance in the *type* of product issued or in effect.
I just tried to go drop off some important packages at a local FedEx place... I got about 30 feet up a small hill just outside our little housing development before I started sliding back down (and into the grass that lines the road). I guess I won't be making the FedEx drop off today (or tomorrow -- hopefully we'll improve by Weds). I bet the interstates and more heavily traveled roads are in better condition, but the hours of freezing drizzle here near my house has made the nearby roads very difficult (at least in my full-size front-wheel drive car).
I assume the significance of "up to 0.24" " is because some other type of advisory or warning starts when expected ice accums are 0.25" or greater. Perhaps that's the diff between freezing rain advisory vs. ice storm warning for the DFW CWA? Using that sort of precision is, as you alluded, a little ridiculous, so I assume it has some significance in the *type* of product issued or in effect.
I just tried to go drop off some important packages at a local FedEx place... I got about 30 feet up a small hill just outside our little housing development before I started sliding back down (and into the grass that lines the road). I guess I won't be making the FedEx drop off today (or tomorrow -- hopefully we'll improve by Weds). I bet the interstates and more heavily traveled roads are in better condition, but the hours of freezing drizzle here near my house has made the nearby roads very difficult (at least in my full-size front-wheel drive car).
Bruce M. Sumner
EF0
Roads here in Tulsa are wet, but not slick. Just beginning to see a glaze on top of unheated areas, such as garages and storage buildings.
Jeff Richardson
EF2
Governor Henry of OK just issued a state of emergency for all 77 OK counties. Indirectly related to the science we're discussing here, but none the less a interesting tidbit of news. I'm certainly no emergency management expert so I'm sure there's a reason for including many western counties and the panhandle which may, at worst, get only enough sleet to make cleaning ones windshield a momentary hassle.
Roads are still wet but getting slick in the Tulsa metro. It doesn't surprise me to read about streets in the OKC metro getting hazardous already. Most of the model data I'm seeing still shows the worst icing could take place from east central OK through southern MO and northwest AR. Some of the folks who live in those parts reside in some pretty rugged Ozark country and if a massive power outage does take place, I shudder to think how long it will take the electric companies to get the juice back on. Last time I checked, radar from INX, TWS, FLX, SRX, and SGF were looking more ominous with time. Anybody out and about be careful out there.
All those advisories and warnings stretching from west TX to the VT/NH border looks uncommonly impressive.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/
Roads are still wet but getting slick in the Tulsa metro. It doesn't surprise me to read about streets in the OKC metro getting hazardous already. Most of the model data I'm seeing still shows the worst icing could take place from east central OK through southern MO and northwest AR. Some of the folks who live in those parts reside in some pretty rugged Ozark country and if a massive power outage does take place, I shudder to think how long it will take the electric companies to get the juice back on. Last time I checked, radar from INX, TWS, FLX, SRX, and SGF were looking more ominous with time. Anybody out and about be careful out there.
All those advisories and warnings stretching from west TX to the VT/NH border looks uncommonly impressive.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/
Andrew Francis
EF3
Watching the radar over the whole southern plains. The TX panhandle and OK panhandles are beginning to light up pretty quickly with precip. I wonder how this will affect the initial forcast for western oklahoma.
Especially with all of that area still being under the standard 'winter weather advisory'
Especially with all of that area still being under the standard 'winter weather advisory'
David Reimer
EF2
Governor Henry of OK just issued a state of emergency for all 77 OK counties. Indirectly related to the science we're discussing here, but none the less a interesting tidbit of news. I'm certainly no emergency management expert so I'm sure there's a reason for including many western counties and the panhandle which may, at worst, get only enough sleet to make cleaning ones windshield a momentary hassle.
Roads are still wet but getting slick in the Tulsa metro. It doesn't surprise me to read about streets in the OKC metro getting hazardous already. Most of the model data I'm seeing still shows the worst icing could take place from east central OK through southern MO and northwest AR. Some of the folks who live in those parts reside in some pretty rugged Ozark country and if a massive power outage does take place, I shudder to think how long it will take the electric companies to get the juice back on. Last time I checked, radar from INX, TWS, FLX, SRX, and SGF were looking more ominous with time. Anybody out and about be careful out there.
All those advisories and warnings stretching from west TX to the VT/NH border looks uncommonly impressive.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/
It will certainly be interesting to read the afternoon AFD's. Here in Dallas its still 0.25 with isolated amounts to 0.50. However Norman has 0.50 as its base to the red river so who knows, The QPF looks to be increasing with each model run. Media here in Dallas has finally caught on and is now all over the place.
Bart_Comstock
EF5
Hey guys, I'm heading out into the mess here in Bentonville, Arkansas which is in the far northwestern corner in benton county and I will have my stream up on SevereStudios.com
Everything is already a terrible mess with all the roads icing over here.
Everything is already a terrible mess with all the roads icing over here.
