. NWS Tulsa Tornado track information has been updated and can be found here…. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4b42e5…

Here’s a look at the tornado shelter where many people weathered the EF-3 tornado last Saturday night at the KOA Campgrounds at Will Rogers Downs just east of Claremore. The Cherokee Nation provided it for people staying there. Photos: Anchor Karen Larsen #2NewsOk #OkWx

Never know what you may find tracking tornado damage in nwrn AR. Survey Day3. w/Steve Piltz

Every advisory, watch, and warning issued by local NWS Forecast Offices for May 20-27, 2024

3,184 in total

What a year this week has been

mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/lsr/

Tornado damage east of Claremore, OK. w/ ⁦Ed Calianese⁩

Tornado damage northwest of Decatur, AR. w/ ⁦Ed Calianese⁩

In addition, a closer view of another deadly tornado-producing supercell t-storm similarly showed pulses of overshooting tops as it moved across northeast #OKwx (including #Claremore / #Pryor ) and continued across northern #ARwx (w/ several more fatalities): cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog…

3pm map...

1pm suface map...

North Broken Arrow…

various storm motions yielding similar ECAPE values ... RAP data at KS/OK border nr I-35 at 9pm...

10am surface conditions...

Trying to understand the instability this time of year as heat builds, but flow starts to slow down, seems very important...

5 years ago, two barges got loose on the Arkansas River and were headed to the Webbers Falls Dam during our historic flood. They eventually crashed into the dam and were sucked under. They then had to be removed from the area later. [no sound] #2NewsOk #OkWx

‼️ #Oklahoma , survivors in Kay, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Pottawatomie & Washington County are now eligible for FEMA assistance!

👉Eligible applicants may qualify for basic home repairs, personal property losses & other eligible expenses.

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#RecoverOK

Today Steve Cobb and Derek Hodges showed me a great example of horizontal sidelobe contamination… (and a triple body scatter spike). Likely very large hail.

What was a relatively normal year for tornadoes through 4/25 has gone well above normal in the last month.
YTD we are now 6th all time for tornado count (not reports), only behind years such as:

2011: 988
2017: 829
2008: 773
2003: 710
1999: 707
2024: ~705 (and counting)

Upon further review, this stone is 3.5' end-to-end that fell in S. Broken Arrow earlier. #okwx NWS Tulsa

Looking NW from NWS Tulsa

1pm data... good for tracking boundaries...