Storms developed across portions of southeastern Oklahoma on the afternoon of the 26th. Although the storms generally remained below severe limits, one storm briefly produced a tornado near Lake Texoma.
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The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.
Storms developed across portions of southeastern Oklahoma on the afternoon of the 26th. Although the storms generally remained below severe limits, one storm briefly produced a tornado near Lake Texoma.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 26, 1:43 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 243 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 2013 .DISCUSSION... STORMS ARE LINGERING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON BUT ARE EXPECTED TO BE MOSTLY OUT OF THE AREA BY 00Z. UPPER RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES WEAKENS OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO ALLOWING THE UPPER FLOW TO BECOME MORE ZONAL AND ALLOWS THE NEXT WAVE TO APPROACH THE PLAINS SUNDAY MORNING. WILL LIKELY SEE MORE THUNDERSTORMS AS EARLY AS SUNDAY MORNING AND PERHAPS ANOTHER STORM COMPLEX SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE AREA MAY SEE SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AGAIN IN THIS TIME FRAME. ALTHOUGH PRECIPITATION CHANCES LOOK TO BE THE HIGHEST ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY... STORM CHANCES PERSIST INTO MID-WEEK AS RIPPLES CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARD THE PLAINS IN THE WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 65 85 67 88 / 10 10 10 20 HOBART OK 66 90 68 91 / 0 10 10 20 WICHITA FALLS TX 68 92 69 95 / 0 0 10 10 GAGE OK 62 90 66 88 / 0 10 30 40 PONCA CITY OK 60 82 63 82 / 10 10 30 40 DURANT OK 68 88 67 92 / 20 0 0 0 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1213 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 2013
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HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
1213 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 2013
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT.
DISCUSSION...
SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHEASTERN OK. BRIEF HEAVY
RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT MANAGES TO DEVELOP.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT SATURDAY JUL 27.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...50 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...5 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT
THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. A FEW
STRONG STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED BY
NOON TODAY.The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 161 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:23 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
KXII-TV received two public reports and a photograph of a tornado that was observed to briefly touch down from the Enos area of Marshall County near Lake Texoma. The time and the location of this tornado are estimated and no damage is known to have occurred.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 2013Warnings in Oklahoma, July 2013
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