The text of the warning is linked below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Le Flore County Tornado Warning

Dawn,

Thanks for posting the warnings when you see them. I was piddling online and listening to the game and was not paying enough attention to the weather.

In my part of Le Flore county (northern), the wind picked up and it rained quite a bit, but nothing severe. I hope everyone further south had the same fortune.

Michelle

Nothing here but some thunder and lightning and a little wind and rain.clouds were a little ugly at times , since i'm only about 8 miles from LeFlore county.

Michelle,

You're welcome. I am glad you saw the thread about the warning. I didn't realize you lived in Le Flore County too! As soon as I saw the warning on TV, I thought to myself that maybe Diane was online--because she was online the night before when I had to go to the tornado shelter because of a tornado on the ground in Texas near us.

Busy 1, glad you're OK too.

Hope Owie is OK in Poteau.

I only switched over from the game to the Weather Channel to begin with because my DH sent me a text message from Dallas saying the weather was turning ugly up here and I wanted to see where it was turning ugly.

Only in Oklahoma can we have a blizzard warning at one end of the state and a tornado warning at the other end all at the same time.

Dawn

Dawn,

Maybe Owie will check in later.
Yea, I am in in LeFlore County, fairly close to the LeFlore/Haskell county line and less than 20 miles north of Poteau.
You're right, I can't think of any other place with weather like our lovely Oklahoma weather.
Did you happen to get any more rain out of this system?

Busy1,

Glad to hear all is well down your way.

Well, the cold has finally made it, looks like it is about 37. It was near 60 well into the night, so it has cooled off fairly quickly.

Michelle

Thanks, Dawn! I was online and saw your post but didn't bother to reply. I was trying to get my radars and warnings to load to check it out (warnings when I looked said there were two areas of rotation?), then out into the attached greenhouse, where I have a good south-facing view from east to west, to see if anything nasty was in our neighborhood. I heard a very distant and very faint tornado siren going off, I think -- maybe Heavener? I'm not sure where the closest siren would be. We're miles from any town and I've never heard one here before. Saw some ominous rotation in the clouds just to our east but don't know if it developed into anything past us.

Got some small hail and, of course, lots and lots of rain which we watched in the greenhouse. Beautiful, like being behind a waterfall! Got an additional 1.25" in the rain gauge yesterday afternoon/last night.

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up, Dawn. We have a NOAA radio but it doesn't get a signal in our location so rather worthless for us. We'll take all of the warnings we can get, however we get them. LOL

(We're roughly 15 miles south of Poteau, by the way, just a bit south of a line drawn between Wister Lake and Heavener.)

Michelle,

We have had misty, drizzly stuff several days this week but it all has added up to only about a half-inch. Today there is mist in the air blowing sideways but it isn't even reaching the ground. Thackerville must have had a good hard rain a few miles south of us on Thursday night, though, because the casino's EMS Fire Brigade (medics who double as firefighters) was paged out to rescue a woman from a ditch in front of the fire station (of all places!) and her vehicle was rapidly filling with water. So, we hardly had puddles at all and they had a ditch full.....but a lot of that was probably runoff from the casino's miles of concrete parking lots.

Still, believe it or not, enough moisture has fallen in Jan.-Mar. here in Love County, that we have gone from a drought index in the upper 600s which is very, very bad to the lower 500s, which is bad but not terribly bad. In fact, the U. S. Drought Monitor just dropped us from a D-2 (severe) drought to a D-1 (moderate drought) last week. If we get 3 or 4 more inches of rain in the next month or so (probably wishful thinking on my part), we'll drop to D-0, which means only "Abnormally Dry". It is a slow and steady improvement. To REALLY end a drought and put water back in the ponds and creeks, though, we need a couple of good heavy downpours where 4 to 8" of rain falls in just a few hours. Until the ponds fill up, the ranchers and the cattle are still going to be hurting. All my life I've heard the saying "It takes a flood to end a drought", but it didn't really mean much to me until I moved here.

Owie,

It is OK that you didn't reply and I am glad y'all are OK. I figured if you knew a storm was approaching you'd be busy either seeking shelter, checking out radar or trying to secure the greenhouse and the children (though not in that order, of course). I'm surprised you could hear the siren, but it is good to know you might get a little advanced warning that way. It is terrible that the weather radios don't work there. Now that I know that, I'll pay special attention to the weather headed your way and post it if I see something severe rolling towards you. So often (and don't blame me for this) the storms we are having here head right for your part of the state after they leave us.

I always try to post tornado warnings online if I see them in time because a lot of us, including me, are in such remote areas that there are no sirens close enough to hear. Usually, the weather radio alerts me, although I am usually downstairs and it is upstairs, but sometimes the local county dispatcher puts out the warning on the fire radio even before my weather radio goes off.

The other night, when rotation was observed in the sky at Thackerville, they ran their sirens for about 30 minutes. Good heavens! I bet some people went down into their cellars just to get away (hopefully) from the sound of the sirens going on and on and on. I believe the school and one of the churches in Thackerville have underground basements they use as community tornado shelters too.

In the tornado shelter, I was a technology fool. I had my laptop with the radar on and could receive it there (thanks to wireless technology) until I had to close the door because rain was coming inside, I had a weather radio, the fire radio so I could listen to the Emergency Operations Center, the firefighters and police and the storm spotters, and I was texting several people back and forth because some of them were out on the highway in the path of the storm and I was trying to help them get out of its way. My husband was watching the radar at DFW Airport and texting me or calling me to tell me what he was seeing. It must have been REALLY boring in the old days when you had to take yourself and your lantern or flashlight into the shelter and just sit there! My fingers were flying! Everyone did get out of the path of the storm, even our friend who was driving west on Hwy 82 from Sherman to Gainesville at the same time the tornado and hail were traveling east on Hwy 82 from Gainesville to Sherman!

I even ran back inside in between bands of rain to check the TV radar and listen to the Channel 12 meteorologist, Steve LaNore, and storm chaser Doug Drace. Every time I did that, though, I saw enough to make me run back to the cellar (it's only about 20 feet from the back door). I was smart, though. On one trip back to the cellar, I grabbed a Dr. Pepper and on another trip back I grabbed some Chips Ahoy Cookies. Just because tornadic rotation was observed in the sky multiple places around us was no reason to go without a soda and cookies! LOL

The wind is fierce here today but I can't complain. No ice, no snow, no damage and certainly no flooding like they're facing from the OTHER Red River near Fargo. Best of all, it warms up tomorrow, although I think we have a couple more cold fronts coming in the next week, though hopefully they won't be as cold as this one.

Dawn