More severe weather is expected across parts of Oklahoma as early as tonight and tomorrow, so please stay weather aware. The location of the severe weather will be in central and western Oklahoma tonight. Currently the timing of any scattered thunderstorms which develop tonight will be around 3 am to 10 am tomorrow morning. If you are involved in recovery efforts from Monday’s tornado in Moore or Sunday’s tornadoes in Shawnee and Arcadia, watch the weather closely. The tornado threat at this point is low, but we cannot rule the threat for them out completely. Damaging winds and large hail to the size of golf balls are the primary threats of any storms that do develop tonight and tomorrow.
In the first section 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. In the second section, you can find a brief summary on what weather to expect for the upcoming days.
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
Please note that the links we have listed here are only a few of what you can find on the internet.
The Coming Days
For tonight, expect a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms in central and western Oklahoma which could be severe, producing large hail to the size of golf balls as well as damaging winds gusts. Lows will be in the low-to-mid-50s in the panhandle and across northern Oklahoma and the low-to-upper-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 western Oklahoma, primarily the southwest, they may again be severe. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a slight risk for western 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 western 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 chance for thunderstorms continues to surround the entire state as the panhandle, western, and central Oklahoma are forecast to see a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms. If these occur storms occur, they will mainly be during the afternoon hours. Skies will be partly cloudy otherwise. In 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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