REPORTS & PICS: 1/28/10 Southern Plains Winter Storm

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Small branches are starting to break off of the trees. Wind has picked up in the past 30 minutes as well.

Jim Leonard was scheduled to fly into OKC today, but his flight was canceled and he is stuck in Houston.

 

[Chuck Robertson]

Since the freezing rain/sleet transition, it has been snowing at least moderately since 1:00pm today in Miami, TX. Currently we have heavy snow and have about 3 in of snow/sleet on the ground. You can barely make out the mesa just south of my house, which is at most 1/8 mi away.

The snow is not purely in the form of flakes. It is a very grainy snow, with little fluffiness. It appears there is a lot of sleet still mixing in with the snowflakes. That is undoubtedly robbing from what otherwise might be a pretty good snow depth.

 

[Jason Boggs]

Here are a couple of photos from today:

I-40 as I was coming home form the tv station

Doing a little snow blowing

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Power outages in the Purcell/Pauls Valley area appear to be creeping north into the Norman area. OG&E lists 2000 customers without power in Norman but is not specific at all where. We heard a family friend in the rural northeast side is without power. The OKC metro still appears in good shape.

EDIT: OG&E de-listed the Norman outage just now... I guess that's good news.

Tim

 

[Brendon Lindsey]

Power outages in the Purcell/Pauls Valley area appear to be creeping north into the Norman area. OG&E lists 2000 customers without power in Norman but is not specific at all where. We heard a family friend in the rural northeast side is without power. The OKC metro still appears in good shape.

EDIT: OG&E de-listed the Norman outage just now... I guess that's good news.

Tim

I see them still out... maybe you didnt let it load all the way? Its interesting watching this og&e deal.

 

[Chuck Robertson]

It appears on radar that the TX panhandle snow storm may be reorganizing again. With 4 in of snow on the ground here and moderate to heavy snow falling now, I'm beginning to get a little more optimistic!

 

[David Williams]

A steady, light rain in Tulsa, OK. Ice is building on anything metal. It's also starting to work on the roads, trees, and power lines.

 

[Mike Johnson]

It appears on radar that the TX panhandle snow storm may be reorganizing again. With 4 in of snow on the ground here and moderate to heavy snow falling now, I'm beginning to get a little more optimistic!

thanks Chuck. That's good information!

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

ICE STORM OKLA!! Breaking news

Caddo, Grady,Comanche, no power lots of tree and main feeder lines down.

Noaa weather tower down SW of Lawton via Ham radio

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Here's what it looks like a little east of Norman. We changed over completely to sleet around 3 pm, and it's covered everything with a pretty solid blanket, about half an inch deep. I don't know about road conditions but we'd probably be stuck here at the house without the tire chains. No power interruptions at all here.... we're drying laundry and my son is playing Little Big Planet on the PS3.

5:06 pm 1/28/10 near Lake Thunderbird (Norman OK)

Norman, the sleet capital of the world....

Tim

 

[Brendon Lindsey]

Wow looking at OG&E site over 10,000 people without power in C. Oklahoma, and headed NE...

 

[Andrew Francis]

All sleet w/ a few flakes of snow here N. of the OKC Metro.

Dreaded dry slot that I knew was going to happen is flying in from the southwest... :[

 

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Adding to the 10,000+ OG&E customers without power is the 27,000 PSO customers.
That's customers, not individuals.

 

[Andrew Francis]

That dry slot invasion is really tearin' up that low!

I wonder if it can re wrap tonight and produce some heavy snows into OK...

 

[rdale]

Bright banding is usually a circle around the radarsite, which tells you the level that melting is occurring. It's not a band of precip that moves through...