Dr. Forbes released updated TorCon Index numbers a few minutes ago. Today's updated TorCon Index numbers for Oklahoma: Northeast 6 South-central 6 North-central 4 For Kansas Southeast 4 For Missouri: South 5 Northeast 4 Northwest 3 For Arkansas North 6 Southwest 5 Southeast 4 For Texas: North-central 5 Northeast 4 Watch the weather if you're outside in the garden or yard today! Dawn

Lisa, Lucky you! Guess who was even luckier? We were! We had lightning for a couple of hours, pretty rowdy winds blowing in the 30s and 40s for a little while, and a minute or two of rain. After the weather radio went off numberous times between midnight and 2 a.m., and the county set off the fire pagers to repeat the warnings, I got up and tracked the storm on the radar on my computer, and to me, it looked like it hit state Hwy 32, which runs east-west, and followed it more or less straight into Marietta, leaving alone those of us in the southern part of the county. I am sure the northern half of our county got it because I listened to the county's emergency radio channel as sherriff's deputies, firefighters, Marietta police officers and storm spotters/storm chasers watched and reported what they were seeing, and I heard reports of rain and hail, but it missed us. How funny it is---last year, as the storms repeatedly missed us, I was very frustrated. This time, when this storm missed us, I was just relieved. There's a thunderstorm popping up in NW Love County right now, roughly in the same area that got hit last night, but it is a long way from us and I hope it stays away. Dawn

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Ellis, Dewey and Woodward counties. It is in effect through 8:45 p.m. This storm is capable of producing tennis-ball sized hail and winds of 60 mph. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: T-Storm Warning at Enhanced NWS Page

Well good - renovator showed up with some helpful info! :) It sounds like it should be fine! We were on a mix in the old house but mostly clay - new one is 3.5 miles away and it's 100% sand. If we were in clay we wouldn't even be able to walk up the driveway with all of this rain. It would be a slick soupy mess! The wind was incredible wasn't it? Branches down but no large trees that I could tell (in the dark). I hope all is well by you. edit: Our goal (remember we are gcing so........) is by spring break. We lost 3 weeks so far with it sitting waiting on framing and then several days more due to constant rain. Otherwise things have moved along pretty well. This post was edited by Autumn.4 on Mon, Nov 18, 13 at 7:35