Diane Our local forecasters don't have rain in our forecast either, but they've been known to be wrong once or twice. I've linked the SPC's Convective page so you can see the slight risk area they have circled. Notice how you and I are outside of it but inside the other circled area. The text that explains their reasoning follows, if you want to read it and try to decipher the scientific gobblygook. The area outside the slight risk area also has a chance of something happening, but a fairly low one. For the folks in northern OK, Dr. Greg Forbes of The Weather Channel increased his TorCon rating for northern OK from a 4 to 5 this morning, meaning that he gives northern OK a 50% chance of having a tornado somewhere. He usually picks a city and then the actual 50 percent chance would be within 50 miles of that city, but he didn't name a city this morning...he just said 'northern Oklahoma'. For comparison's sake, he gave northern Oklahoma a TorCon rating of 8 on Monday, and we all know what happened. Diane, I like for the rain to fall in nice even batches too so nothing drowns, but we get whatever we get. This morning, TWC said some parts of the Great Plains could get a month's worth of rain in the next wave of storms that begins tomorrow and lasts several days. They didn't say which parts of the Great Plains though. When I come back inside for lunch, I'll try to find and link their national precip forecast map so we can see what we might be expecting here. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: SPC Convective Map/Text for today

A few minutes ago TWC updated Dr. Forbes' TorCon Index, changing the '6' previously assigned to Western/Southern OK to Western/Central OK, so I wanted to note that change here. The TorCon Index updates throughout the day, so I've linked it below so anyone who is interested can check it as needed. I believe TWC's Great Tornado Hunt 2012 team plan are here in Oklahoma today again since this is where they're most likely to find the severe weather they're seeking. I don't know if those of you with plant damage from yesterday would be better off pruning off damaged foliage today or not. You might want to leave it on the plant to help protect still undamaged portions of your plants in case more severe weather hits your area today. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: TWC's TorCon Index

The Fire Weather Watch has been upgraded to a Red Flag Fire Warning for all counties previously covered by the watch. If you looked at the NWS website last night and saw that your county still had a Fire Weather Watch while other counties west of you had a Red Flag Fire Warning, you need to know that this morning the Fire Weather Watch has been upgraded for you as well. See the linked page at the Red Flag Fire Warning page to see the updated map. 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