Since 1994, the Oklahoma Mesonet has collected over five billion observations and has provided critical information for farmers, ranchers, emergency managers, weather forecasters, and researchers. One of the most important observations at each station is rainfall, which is archived and used to create...
October 11, 197315.68 inches of rain falls at Enid in 13 hours, setting the Oklahoma's daily and 24-hour rainfall records. 12 inches of the rainfall fell in only 3 hours leading to severe flash flooding. April 10, 1979The famous"Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak"in which numerous tornadoes...
Spatially coherent patterns of annual, warm-season, and cold-season rainfall events were derived using principal component analysis. Because the Oklahoma Mesonet records rainfall every 5 min, relatively short events (e.g. 15 min or 3 h) could be examined. Moreover, rainfall events were split ...
JP. Spatial coherence of rainfall variations using the Oklahoma Mesonet ( ANNUALclimate)