As the sun finally shines over a heartbroken city, survivors from Monday’s deadly EF5 tornado in Moore are still searching through rubble, trying to find out what is left of their property and what the road to recovery will be like. The death toll is still sitting at 24, with 9 of those being children. At this point, officials are almost certain they have found any missing bodies. Below you can find more links for the latest developments on this tragedy. If you are familiar with the Moore area, the National Weather Service has provided an interactive map showing the exact path of the tornado and the damage in particular places. You can find links to this interactive map under the “INTERACTIVE” section below.
Deadly Moore Tornado
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN, OK
NEW! The Tornado Outbreak of May 20, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY LOCAL TV AFFILIATES
KFOR Channel 4
KOCO Channel 5
KWTV Channel 9
KOKC Channel 25
NATIONAL NEWS
Oklahoma tornado: Latest developments in this disaster (CNN)
Moore mayor wants safe-room shelters built in all news homes, while cost of tornado damage could top $2 billion (FOX News)
Okla. Tornado Damage Could Top $2 Billion (The Weather Channel)
Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb (YAHOO! News)
PHOTOS/IMAGES
NEW! Oklahoma Tornado 2013 From Space (Flickr/Courtesy: NASA Goddard Photo and Video)
NEW! Radar Imagery for the Tornado Outbreak of May 20, 2013 (Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK)
PHOTOS: Monster Tornadoes Tear Through Oklahoma (The Weather Channel)
Tornadoes rip through Oklahoma town (MSN)
VIDEOS
NEW! High Speed Imagery of the Oklahoma Tornadoes (YouTube/Courtesy: NOAAVisualizations)
NEW! Moore Tornado 2013 (YouTube search results)
INTERACTIVE
NEW! Before/After Images: Moore, Okla. Tornado (The Weather Channel/Courtesy: Google Earth, Associated Press)
NEW! Interactive: Damage Path of Moore Tornado (The Weather Channel/Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK/Google Maps)
Note: If you have Google Maps, you can download a high-quality KMZ file for the Newcastle-Moore tornado damage including path and survey point information or path only. Just click HERE, scroll down to the links under the heading “Information Sources” and click the appropriate KMZ file link for download.
DONATIONS
American Red Cross: Heart of Oklahoma Chapter
Salvation Army
NEED A SHELTER?
University of Oklahoma Housing & Food Services
Please note that the links we have listed here are only a few of what you can find on the internet.
The Coming Days
Following all this severe weather over the past few days, what lies ahead? Well, for today, you can finally expect sunny to mostly sunny skies for the entire day. Pop-up thunderstorms will not occur in Oklahoma today. Highs will be cooler due to the passage of that stubborn cold front. Warmest highs will occur in the panhandle and southwest, topping out in the mid-to-upper-80s. Across the rest of the state, we will have highs in the upper-70s to mid-80s this afternoon. However, in the northeast, highs may only reach the low-to-mid-70s.
For tonight, expect a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms in central and western Oklahoma, but these should not be severe. Lows will be in the low-to-mid-50s in the panhandle, the mid-to-upper-50s across northern Oklahoma and the low-to-mid-60s across central and southern Oklahoma. Areas that do not see thunderstorm development will have clear to partly cloudy skies.
On Thursday, do not let your guard down as thunderstorms return. In southwest Oklahoma, they may be severe. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a slight risk for this region of Oklahoma, as well as most of the Texas panhandle. At the present time, the tornado risk looks to be low, but we cannot say that it is nonexistent, so please remain alert. Primary threats from Thursday’s storms will be large hail and damaging winds and again, will be confined primary to southwest Oklahoma. Central Oklahoma may see some thunderstorms on Thursday and Thursday night, about a 30 – 50% chance, but they should not be severe. We will inform you if this changes.
The chance for thunderstorms engulfs all of the state on Friday ahead of another slow-moving system, and some of the storms may be severe in the panhandle and far western Oklahoma. Friday’s rain chances are greatest in western and central Oklahoma. For the weekend, the thunderstorms finally push eastward. The panhandle is forecast to see a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms through the weekend, but if these occur they will mainly be during the afternoon hours. The rest of western and central Oklahoma will see plenty of sunshine for your Memorial Day weekend. Unfortunately, this will not be the case for eastern Oklahoma. We will see a good chance for thunderstorms on Saturday, with the chance slowly diminishing but remaining through Monday. Saturday’s rain chances in eastern Oklahoma are currently about 50%. We are not quite sure about the rain chances on Sunday or Monday at this time but will continue to keep you updated. Hopefully, the rain will not wash out your Memorial Day plans.
Important Links
Oklahoma Watches, Warnings, Advisories
Looping Central Oklahoma Radar
Southern Plains Looping Radar
Latest Storm Prediction Center Convective Outlooks
National Weather Service Amarillo, TX
National Weather Service Norman, OK
National Weather Service Tulsa, OK
Sources: NWS, SPC, HOOT, Mesonet, Brennan Linsley/AP (photo)
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