Current outlook areas, radar, and convective watches Organized categorical risk of severe storms begins with “marginal” (MRGL). Levels increase from there to “slight” (SLGT), then “enhanced” (ENH), to “moderate” (MDT), and finally “high” (HIGH). In a marginal risk, one might ...
Injuries: 5 Survey Summary: A supercell thunderstorm moved through McCurtain county on the afternoon of May 30th. The storm produced an EF1 tornado about 6 miles southeast of Watson, Oklahoma. The tornado mainly uprooted and snapped trees. A tree fell on a home in this rural community, causin...
How one Tulsa resident described the tornado, as quoted in the Daily Oklahoman, Sunday, June 9, 1974. Tornado damage in Brookside from June 8, 1974. Looking north along Peoria Avenue in the Brookside District of Tulsa the night of June 8, 1974. Brookside Baptist Church can be seen on th...
Oklahoma Climatological Survey: 61 Twisters Hit the State in May A tornado can form when warm humid air collides with cold dry air. An Unusual Tornado Season In The U.S To address these issues, we conducted four surveys to examine how residents of the Southeast understand and respond to torn...
according to theNational Weather Service. The agency's Storm Prediction Center has reported the highest incidences of fatal twisters in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Georgia, where the average death tolls are 14, eight, seven, five and five, respectively. Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississipp...
The agency's Storm Prediction Center has reported the highest incidences of fatal twisters in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Georgia, where the average death tolls are 14, eight, seven, five and five, respectively. Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas follow closely behind with ...
From March to the end of August in 2011,severe drought and heatwavesimpacted much of the Southern Plains and Southwest United States. Range and pasture lands were in poor condition for much of the 2011 growing season and the drought took its toll on Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Ka...
Much of the U.S. Midwest is bracing for more severe weather on Tuesday. Parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania are at risk again for tornadoes, while other areas including Oklahoma City and parts of the southern state of Texas may again see damaging wind and hail, said an ABC News report. ...
Parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia and Georgia were under tornado watches into Tuesday night, while Wisconsin was experiencing a spring snowstorm. Storms in Northeastern Oklahoma unleashed three suspected tornadoes and dumped heavy rain that was...
(CNN)-- Before I decided to walk the 17-mile path of last week's tornado in Oklahoma, I wanted to check out its origins. Would I be able to reach the rural stretch of land where the storm dropped from the sky like a pencil pushing through the clouds, as one resident told me? Wou...