We got .78 inch of mail and most of it fell in a 15 minute period. The thunder woke me around 5:30, and about 5:45 the rain hit EXTREMELY hard. Some of my tallest potato plants were just laid over on the ground but I suspect they will stand up again when the sun shines. My remaining transplants were outside on a picnic table and I wanted to go bring them inside but there was too much thunder and lightening and the rain was unbelievable. They look pretty good except for the few that were still in soil blocks. I had moved the blacks from around them to plant yesterday so the blocks kind of flattened out from the heavy rain. About the time the heavy rain ended and turned to a lighter rain event, the weather radio went of for Springfield. We never did get an alert for Oklahoma. Larry, my tomato transplants were just about perfect except for the ones in the cups. Even with spending a lot of their life under lights, they were the perfect color and very lush, and none of them were leggy. The ones in cups had some brown leaves, more space between branches, a lighter color, and few roots. They looked as good as a lot of the transplants I have seen in stores, but they didn't look nearly as good as their neighbors in pots that had lived under the same conditions. It was weird.

Several tornado warnings are up, including a tornado on the ground near Newcastle headed towards Moore. KFOR live chopper video showing power flashes.The other tornado-warned storm as I type this is headed from the Duncan area eastward, including several other counties like Garvin County and NW Carter County. Geez, I go to Texas for an hour or so and y'all let all kinds of storms pop up while I was gone. Who was in charge of storm suppression today? Go to NWS Norman webpage to see tornado warning areas. D Here is a link that might be useful: Norman NWS Webpage

bumping this down the page as this warning has expired

Impatience, They still do that here! Last night, our county deputies and other storm spotters were out spotting storms. The one closest to us was on a bridge about a mile from our house as the crow flies. I was glad knowing he was there since it is on much higher ground than we are and I knew he'd see the tornadoes before we did. And he did, too, so we had advance warning to stop staring at the sky and get into the shelter. They do not necessarily drive around with their sirens on alerting people in our county depending on where the storms are because Thackerville, Marietta, Shady Dale and Greenville, I think, all have storm sirens that the firefighters sound when a tornado is spotted near them or is known to be moving towards them. Out in less populated areas, some of the firefighters do drive around in the firetrucks sometimes sounding their sirens to alert folks. Leava, I'm glad to hear you and Jeff are alright and the storm missed y'all. We were really worried about you last night as the storms sounded too close to yall for comfort. I would have been worried about you, Miraje, but I knew you were chasing the storms while the rest of us were running from them. I am glad they missed your home. Suzie, I was nervous on your behalf, just hoping you made it home from work before it got to your place. I knew you had a shelter and would be in it if you got home before the storm arrived, so I'm glad you left work early. Down here, the Ardmore schools let the kids out at 1 p.m., so I knew that folks in Carter County were indeed watching the skies and taking the storms seriously. Apparently a lot of schools around the state did that too, and I think it is a smart move. I'm hoping they find the 3-year-old alive too even though I know the odds are against it. Last night many of Tim's and Chris's coworkers from the D-FW metro area were calling and texting us and checking on us throughout the storms. Ironically, after we were in the clear here, the D-FW metro area was hit by much worse storms that we had here in Love County, and some of those co-workers had much more storm damage than we did. Dawn