Northwest Oklahoma City Tornado Rated EF2

[Danny Neal]

This is an event that I have heard nothing about. Not a word.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/wxevents/20070329/

Realize it is an NWS product.

Odd to hear "OKC" getting hit again and not getting much attention. Rainwrapped tornado with "hop skip and jump" path. Anyone else pay much attention to this?

 

[rdale]

It kind of morphed into a non-supercell with very low level rotation, which probably explains why it came without warning... There's a nice writeup on the event (well, at least a start - this looks like a nice case study) on Medialine.

http://www.medialine.com/ubb/NonCGI/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=007800

 

[Danny Neal]

Excellent, thanks for that. Shocked to see KOCO say "250 mph" winds.....kind of caught me off guard. I guess it was just an attention getter to get as many viewers....I wouldn't know though.

I normally wouldn't think an "atypical" tornado producing that strong of damage.....definitely was not a landspout, but also did not have typical supercell characteristics. Although on radar has great velocity scans and even base reflectivity shows a hook like feature. I would think all you OU nuts out there would have been chatting it up about this event......At least at the time a Tornado watch was in effect if I am not mistaken?

 

[Adam Atkins]

There was no tornado watch issued for Thursday. There were warm advection type rain showers all day with moderate helicity in an uncapped environment. The storm occurred west of the main precipitation field so there may be some inflow/outflow boundary interactions which aided in tornadogenesis. It happened very quickly and a Tornado Warning wasn't issued until 7 minutes after the tornado occurred. It caught EVERYONE off guard. As for the "OU nuts," we were still reviewing video from the main tornado outbreak the day before, when all of a sudden someone saw the low level convergence couplet and Gary England on the box screaming tornado.

 

[Danny Neal]

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[Wesley Luginbyhl]

This tornado actually caused the power to flicker all the way down in Norman on Thursday. I didnt think much about till my g/f who goes to school on the west side of OKC called and told me to turn on the news to hear about the tornado. The tornado sirens yesterday in Norman though caught me even more off guard.

 

[Angie Norris]

I was at work Thursday on the southwest side of the city when the sirens went off. My reaction was pretty much WTF?????? Of course everybody was like "Angie, where is it?" "Where's it going?" and I'm going "I don't even know where it came from!" Was definitely a bit of a surprise.

 

[David Wagener]

Im right there with Angie. THe people are work glanced over and asked, "are those sirens? what is it?" Needless to say it passed far from the campus, but people were still in a panic. I was more annoyed security locked the building down and I couldn't leave.