tornado sirens went off

OklaMoni

16 years ago

going out to look, see and then who knows

bye

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OklaMoni
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16 years ago
Dark clouds and thunder up north, the radar picture indicates a mighty stormy cell, but nothing here yet.

Clear sky south. Of course, I took pictures. Way south, south of OKC is another pretty nasty cell.

The weather guys are sure excited.

I think I will make me a salad. I am hungry.

Moni
Georgysmom
16 years ago
Wow! You are really having some bad weather. Stay safe.
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I wondered if they were sounding the sirens there an hour or two ago. There was a huge low supercell between y'all and Anadarko and Chickasha for hours. It was super low and super dark but never developed a tornado as far as I know. Every time I looked at the vorticity, they didn't show much of anything happening. I am not sure if the dark clouds you saw were from that one as it moved across the state or if you were looking at the late afternoon storm now moving into NW Carter County. I can see the Carter County storm from southern Love County. In fact, that's why I linked the warning on the thread above. I was outside working and saw some really dark clouds to my NW, said "uh oh" and came inside and discovered they were under a Tornado Warning. There's been lots of warnings today, and some damage that may have come from small tornadoes that touched down briefly, but so far today, Oklahoma has been fairly lucky. I hear thunder now. I know we need rain, but hope we don't get any more today. Our yard is a lake already as it is.
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I don't mind it a little interesting, but I prefer that it stays just this side of dangerous. I love to watch lighting. I get disappointed when the storms just miss us... like they did today. We got rain and some wind gusts, but nothing serious. Today I was glad of that, really, because I was out and about. We don't have a basement either. I grew up in Ohio and as a young child was affected by tornadoes three times. I have vivid memories of being carried from our mobile home by a fireman down a hill and under the bridge of train tracks. When we came back, most of the homes on our street of the mobile home park were turned upside down. Ours was the only one standing! I was maybe 5 y/o. Still, it doesn't scare me. The opposite, I take it in stride. We had a friend of DS's spend the night once when the tornado siren went off. In the blink of an eye he was in the back of our coat closet in a ball, while the rest of us were just waiting and watching the news. We didn't even realize it, just looked around wondering where he went. Oh, it was too funny! He was 13! We were laughing so hard we had tears in our eyes! Never let him forget it. It's still funny to think about. He is a big, strong kid, too. Football and baseball player... the kind who's not afraid of anything. LOL!
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glenda_al
16 years ago
Thinking about you.

Tornado season has been rough!
grinch_gut
16 years ago
Sydney works off of NW Expressway Moni...not sure what that is from you or what is going on with her there but at least she is with people who will know what to do if it is close...stay safe...take pics! Stacy
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16 years ago
It's starting to come into the outer Tulsa areas right now.

Here's a couple of photos I took around 8:45 this morning when the first storms started rolling in.
Kathsgrdn
16 years ago
Be safe Moni!
OklaMoni
Original Author
16 years ago
All over here. Not even rain. But the sky looked very ominous at times. Looks like Rita might have been spared as well, but Adella is getting belted with at least rain at this moment.

Thanks for all the good wishes.

Moni
linda_in_iowa
16 years ago
They tested our tornado sirens all over town today. They usually just test at 10 a.m. on the first Wednesday. Today this went on for hours. Poor Jake wanted to lie in from of the screen door and look out. When the sirens got loud he would howl and I would call him to me and put my hands over his ears. The crazy cats act like they don't even hear it.
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16 years ago
It didn't storm as bad as I thought it would. We got thunder and lightning and a lot of rain. Our ditches are full. There is a lot of flooding around the area.
okwriter
16 years ago
Tornado season is making me we weary.
We've dodged "tornado" bullets a a few times, but dang--they've been closer this year than usual!
We've had tons of rain. Over 2.5" in the last 36 hours.

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