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Tornado Outbreak: December 10-11, 2021
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:28 am
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:28 am
You all stay weather aware this Friday. Let’s hope nothing comes of it. Oklahoma had quite an October with this craziness.
This post was edited on 12/11/21 at 9:38 am
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Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:33 am to Oklahomey
There wont be any tornados.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:38 am to pioneerbasketball
By declaring absolutely there won’t be any, you’re seriously tempting God/fate/the universe to make them just to give you the bird
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:39 am to pioneerbasketball
I’m hearing they could be of the QLCS type which typically happens along a line of storms. They are brief spin ups but can still do damage. Always look for that inflow notch on the leading edge. Then you know it’s something to take seriously. It’s hard to gauge these as they can happen in a matter of seconds then disappear.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:41 am to Oklahomey
Hopefully everybody stays safe 
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:52 am to Oklahomey
I am not so much worried about a direct tornado hit, but the thought of losing power is concerning. I'll be fine without power for a few days but my elderly mother probably won't be. The problem is the only relatives close enough to go to are likely to have lost power as well.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:05 am to Oklahomey
Everything depends on how warm it gets, before the cold front moves across, and position of the jet stream.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:08 am to Arksulli
Coming up on a couple years since Jonesboro took a direct hit right at 5 pm to the main shopping area part of town.
Still amazes me that nobody was killed.
Still amazes me that nobody was killed.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:11 am to Arksulli
You can come stay in my trailer if your power goes out.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:11 am to Sus-Scrofa
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Coming up on a couple years since Jonesboro took a direct hit right at 5 pm to the main shopping area part of town.
Still amazes me that nobody was killed.
The one thing Covid did, if not for it the restaurants and malls would have been full on that Sat afternoon. Hundreds would have been lost.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:20 am to Oklahomey
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:49 am to Oklahomey
I’m guessing my tee time for Friday is no bueno.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:51 am to the808bass
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I’m guessing my tee time for Friday is no bueno.
Wouldn't make my drives any more inaccurate or unpredictable.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:52 am to the808bass
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I’m guessing my tee time for Friday is no bueno.
The wind will help your golf game.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:46 am to Oklahomey
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Oklahoma had quite an October with this craziness.
Is there a season in Oklahoma without crazy weather?
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:48 am to oklahogjr
That’s true. But, March to May was relatively quiet and that’s peak for tornadoes. Mother Nature decided to do her BS in October.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:54 am to Oklahomey
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ARK-LA-AL-MS-KY-TN-MO….
cant be us, we're like MI-WI-MO-OH-NY-ND
Posted on 12/9/21 at 8:24 am to Oklahomey
OU already providing more to the conference than Mizzou. Now we have resident meteorologists and storm chasers.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 9:33 am to Hmanhunt
I live near where the Ohio and Mississippi meet. It shifts the weather all around. Might get some storms or none at all.
We had an EF1 tear some pole barns down a few days ago in the south part of the county near the TN line.
We had an EF1 tear some pole barns down a few days ago in the south part of the county near the TN line.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 10:23 am to Oklahomey
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Oklahomey
I'm a weather nerd, and when I see this topic and "Oklahoma" together, it reminds me of the OU SMART mobile radar unit that the University deploys, often for hurricanes.
I've followed them online when they've brought this thing into LA/MS/AL to provide backup/live local radar at landfall, which can be invaluable when power lines go down. They will offer a link where you can actually see their live data and check for spin-up tornadoes, etc., even when the NWS is down.
Much respect to that group for doing this, both as a research tool and something that can literally save lives throughout the Southeast.
Mobile radar on the way – U of Oklahoma’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (@oucimms) and @NOAA @NEXRADROC are deploying a mobile radar unit to Lake Charles, LA to provide additional radar coverage during Hurricane Delta
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Laura ripped apart the NEXRAD radar at the NWS office in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Repairs are not expected to be finished until the end of March.
Other radar stations — in Houston, Shreveport and one at Fort Polk about 55 miles to the north — still provide some coverage of the Lake Charles area.
Those stations, however, can't sample lower parts of the atmosphere as well as the one in Lake Charles would have. That's because radar travels in a straight line, but the Earth curves.
Those radars also can't see Delta's circulation quite as well when the hurricane is still approaching from over the ocean. Determining rainfall amounts with Doppler radar won't be as easy either, and tornadoes could be harder to spot.
To fill the gap, the NWS will use a mobile radar station from the University of Oklahoma.
Once the mobile radar is operating, its data will be available to forecasters and the public on an accessible website.
The mobile radar also means the Lake Charles forecasters won't be operating blindly if they lose communication.
This post was edited on 12/9/21 at 10:34 am
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