Day 129, part 2: A Follow Up

Posted by on 9 May 2010 | 3 comments

If you have not read the first part of tonight’s blog, please consider reading it before continuing with this post. It can be found here:

I failed to mention this in my last post and felt it sufficiently important to start a new post. One major thing to take away from my last blog post is not that a severe weather event is unlikely tomorrow because the model’s aren’t in perfect agreement. Instead, what should be taken away is that the models are almost in unanimous agreement that a significant severe weather event is possible SOMEWHERE in the southern plains. EVERYONE in the southern plains needs to pay attention to the weather tomorrow. Please take a few minutes as you read this to review your own severe weather plans. If you wait until you are in a tornado warning to do so, it will be too late. If you are unsure what to do, please contact your local NWS office and/or post something in the comments. The time to prepare and review is now!

Again, let me stress that…although there are uncertainties regarding the location of the greatest risk area for tomorrow, sufficient confidence exists that a severe weather event of potentially significant magnitude will unfold somewhere in the southern plains.

  • http://www.tempestgallery.com/ Stephen Locke

    Patrick,

    Outstanding post. I always look forward to these. Feel free to get technical or give a tutorial on sounding analysis. Thanks again!

    -Stephen Locke

  • http://www.patricktmarsh.com pmarsh

    Will try to find time in the coming weeks to do a post regarding sounding analysis.

  • Chris Suse

    In your post you mentioned to contact your NWS if you don’t know what to do if a Tornado Warning occurs and you’re in the path. I’m embarrassed to say it, but I’ve lived in Tulsa over 25 years, and do not have a plan to get underground if a Tornado was in town, heading my way.

    I recall during an F4/F5 in OKC a few years ago, the TV WX forecaster said to get underground to survive. My question is: Where do you go to take shelter underground if you do not have a basement or storm shelter and live in Tulsa? Is there a place to take your family underground to survive?

    Thanks for your work!