Bon, I believe we've been either 27 or 28 days with no rainfall greater than 0.25" on any given day. Our rainfall for the month of April was slightly less than one inch. In a normal April we'll get 3 or 4" of rain. Usually this sort of dryness doesn't hit us here until June, or maybe even July in a really wet year. It isn't just the lack of rainfall that is discouraging. Our temperatures are running much higher than usual, and it is fairly windy every day. So, with it being hotter and windier than usual, and with little rain falling, everything is drying out very quickly. It is so dry here now that it is hard to believe our ground was totally saturated in March. At this point, March seems like a long, long time ago. One good heavy rainfall would help a lot, but we have virtually zero chance of having any rain in the next seven days according to our local TV met who is usually right about such things. After last year, I was hoping for a nice, wet spring, and it seemed like we were having one here until April arrived. Dawn

We had two little rain showers today, one with some dime size hail. No damage and only about 1/10 in of rain. It looked like North and East of us they might have had more rain and hail. I am out of school now so will have more time in the garden. I need the wind to quit. We have had three days of 20-30 mph winds night and day which makes it hard to work in the garden and is hard on the plants.

The text of the warning is included in the linked info below. Please note this is a Particularly Dangerous Situation. I will post warnings as fast as I can, provided I am able to keep up once things start popping, but you always should get your primary weather info from your local NWS office and local media. I'm just here to poke and prod everyone so they'll be careful and pay attention. I am really bad about ignoring the weather when I am in the garden. wbonesteel,I was surprised the watch area came as far SW as it does. Love County isn't in the area, but the counties to our due west and due north are. The really hot temperatures to your SW will contribute to the instability that breaks the cap and lets storms start really firing up. That may be part of why the watch came so far down to the SW. For those of you in central/eastern OK, Dr. Forbes has increased your TorCon from a 6 to a 7, on a scale of 0-10, with 9 and 10 being very rarely used. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Text of The PDS Tornado Watch

Bumping this down. The warning has expired.