Models depicting gusts up to 80MPH across West Texas and up to 60MPH across Oklahoma This will bring in very dangerous fire weather Fast moving dust-storm like last week with limited visibility and hazardous road conditions. Prayers go out to all who will be in harms way.
Dangerous weather is coming to a vast section of America this weekend. Dubbed a “megastorm” by the Associated Press, tornadoes, blizzards, and flooding are all possible across different parts of middle America beginning on Friday. “If there’s a time of the year where a storm like this can deliver these coast-to-coast impacts, we are in it,” said Benjamin Reppert, a meteorologist at Penn State University. The National Weather Service forecast projects wind gusts of up to 80 mph from the Canadian border to the Rio Grande, which creates a threat of fires in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, while blizzards could hit the Dakotas and Minnesota. The severe thunderstorm threat alone will stretch across approximately 1 million square miles and include 30 states as it progresses eastward.
I've been watching you tube vids of news coverage of the fires in OK... One while ago had a county emergency manager call in, they were evacuating part of the town, I think it was stillwater, including evacuating a couple hotels and a walmart...
I see the member map is back on the member page. Last time I looked I couldn't find it, not sure if it was missing or if I just missed it...
Knothead, all those winds..that near you? Not sure where you are in relation... Did Texas have as much fire as Oklahoma?
Thanks for asking Eckie, I made it fine where I live here in the Piney Woods of East Texas. The Texas Panhandle and Texas Hill Country have experienced high winds, fires, and tornados. I feel very lucky that my area of the state only seen a small number of down power lines and trees. The wind only reached 25 to 30 mph which is a number I can live with. Best news was no tornados or wildfires in my area of the state. Over the past 24 hours, more than 40 reported tornadoes have swept across states in the Midwest and South and the dangerous severe weather threat continues. The states with reported tornadoes in the past day are Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee. As of this evening the national weather statement showed 34 weather related deaths in the United States due to this event. Missouri experienced 12 of those reported deaths due to tornados. Officials are warning this weather pattens will move to the eastern United States on Sunday, my thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims of this severe storm.
Glad you're good Knothead. That thing is supposed to hit us today. Getting a bit windy already. I think the stronger storms are supposed to be sometime this afternoon.
The storm front arrives here after midnight. We're lucky it's not severe, but >1.5 I names of rain is expected. Best of luck to those affected by the severe weather.
NOT GOOD: A lesser version of Friday, but a very impactful day nonetheless is on the way Tuesday March 18th. Winds will be increasing tomorrow. Expecting more dust storms with zero visibility in spots. Right now conditions look to peak later on Tuesday between 4pm and midnight. Needless to say the fire danger will be high to extreme.
Some storms came through here earlier, but they weren't too bad. Now we're under a tornado watch till 1 am. I was watching you tube weather vids 7‐10 days ago that said this system was gonna be dangerous and historic. They were right...
