With persistent dry conditions, drought conditions expanded across portions of southwestern and western Oklahoma.
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The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.
With persistent dry conditions, drought conditions expanded across portions of southwestern and western Oklahoma.
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 Dec 31, 9:27 PM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 927 PM CST TUE DEC 31 2013 .UPDATE... TONIGHT/S FORECAST IS IN GREAT SHAPE...AND MADE ONLY VERY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO HOURLY GRIDS. EXPANDED RAIN/SNOW CHANCES ACROSS LARGER PART OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. && .DISCUSSION... MOSTLY CLEAR WEATHER WILL RING IN THE NEW YEAR. EXPANDED THE RAIN/SNOW CHANCES ACROSS A LARGER PART OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA ON WEDNESDAY AS LATEST MODELS...PARTICULARLY THE NAM/WRF...HAVE BEEN SUGGESTING THAT THE PRECIPITATION MAY ARRIVE 3 HOURS EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. PRECIPITATION MAY BEGIN AS LIGHT RAIN BUT APPEARS TO CHANGE TO SNOW DUE TO EVAPORATIONAL COOLING. A QUICK 1 TO 3 HOUR BURST OF SNOW MAY ACCUMULATE TO NEAR AN INCH MAINLY ON ELEVATED AND GRASSY SURFACES OVER FAR NORTHERN OKLAHOMA ON NEW YEARS DAY...MAINLY BETWEEN 3 PM AND MIDNIGHT NEAR MEDFORD AND PONCA CITY. ROAD TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE RATHER WARM...SO SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL IMPACTS SEEM UNLIKELY. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR. PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN UPDATED. MBS && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 602 PM CST TUE DEC 31 2013/ AVIATION... SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR OVERNIGHT. NAM MOS SUGGESTS THE CHANCE OF IFR CEILINGS AT KCSM AND KHBR IN THE 12-15Z TIME FRAME TOMORROW MORNING... BUT RIGHT NOW BELIEVE THAT THE PROBABILITY IS LOW ENOUGH THAT IT HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THE TAFS AT THIS TIME... BUT WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR THAT POSSIBILITY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY MORNING /AROUND 12Z AT KGAG TO AROUND 22Z AT KSPS/ WITH GUSTY NORTH WINDS EXPECTED AFTER PASSAGE OF THE FRONT. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 301 PM CST TUE DEC 31 2013/ DISCUSSION... DOWNSLOPE FLOW HAS REALLY WARMED THINGS UP THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN OK. SFC WINDS AROUND 8 TO 10 KT TONIGHT WILL ALSO KEEP OVERNIGHT LOWS FROM DROPPING MUCH BELOW FREEZING FOR MANY LOCATIONS AS A LEE LOW SLIDES SOUTH OVER THE PANHANDLE. THIS LOW WILL CONTINUE TO DROP INTO WESTERN N TX TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHERN OK BEFORE LUNCH. ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPS ARE EXPECTED NEAR THE RED RIVER VALLEY TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITHIN PREFRONTAL WARM ZONE...WHILE NORMAL TO SLIGHTLY BELOW AVG TEMPS IMPACT NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OK. SNOW STILL LOOKS VERY LIKELY TOMORROW NIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN OK WHERE SOME LOCATIONS LIKE PONCA CITY COULD PICK UP A QUICK INCH OR INCH AND A HALF AS THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH...CURRENTLY SEEN MOVING INTO THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST...TRAVERSES THIS REGION THROUGH EARLY THURS AM. IMPACTS SHOULD REMAIN LOW GIVEN THE SPEED AND NATURE OF THE WAVE (LOW QPF)...ALTHOUGH AN ADVISORY MAY EVENTUALLY BE NEEDED FOR SOME NORTHERN COUNTIES. A SFC RIDGE WILL SETTLE OVERHEAD THURSDAY MORNING BEHIND THE FRONT AND TEMPS WILL PLUMMET AGAIN UNDER GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES. WIND SPEEDS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE FA WILL KEEP THEM FROM DROPPING MUCH BELOW THE MID 20S. HOWEVER...SOME SNOW PACK ACROSS THE NNE CLOSER TO THE RIDGE AXIS WHERE WEAKER WINDS ARE EXPECTED COULD RESULT IN SOME LOW TEMPS APPROACHING THE SINGLE DIGITS. ANOTHER LEE TROUGH IS EXPECTED FRI THROUGH AT LEAST THE FIRST HALF OF SATURDAY WITH THE LOW LEVEL FLOW RETURNING FROM THE SOUTH. THIS WILL WARM THINGS BACK UP AGAIN BEFORE ANOTHER STRONG COLD FRONT IMPACTS SOUTHERN PLAINS SATURDAY NIGHT. THE CULPRIT FOR THIS AIRMASS WILL BE A DEEP LONGWAVE TROUGH MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN/NE CONUS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. GIVEN RECENT TRENDS...EXPECTED AVG 850MB TEMPS...AND FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GFS AND ECMWF HAVE DROPPED TEMPS SEVERAL DEGREES EACH DAY THROUGH THE EXTENDED. MONDAY MAY BE THE COLDEST DAY OUT OF THE NEXT SEVEN...WITH HIGHS RANGING FROM THE LOW 20S TO UPPER 30S NORTH TO SOUTH RESPECTIVELY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 31 48 21 35 / 0 10 10 0 HOBART OK 27 50 20 39 / 0 0 0 0 WICHITA FALLS TX 32 57 24 40 / 0 0 0 0 GAGE OK 26 43 18 41 / 0 10 10 0 PONCA CITY OK 29 43 11 28 / 0 30 70 0 DURANT OK 33 58 27 37 / 0 0 10 0 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 17/26
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 510 PM CST TUE DEC 31 2013 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-011100- 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- 510 PM CST TUE DEC 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN... CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK... NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST. DISCUSSION... A DRY AND STABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE. PROBABILITY TABLE... VALID THROUGH 700 AM CST WEDNESDAY JAN 1. PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...ZERO. OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER... NONE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK... THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN TOO STABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER... A STRONG COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BRING A CHANCE OF ACCUMULATING SNOW TO NORTHERN OKLAHOMA LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. AN INCH OF SNOW ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT NEAR MEDFORD AND PONCA CITY. THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 5 AM WEDNESDAY. MBS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
20 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
D3(extreme) drought conditions expanded into northwest portions of the county resulting in D3(extreme) to D4(exceptional) from north to south across the county.
D3(extreme) drought conditions expanded into southern portions of the county resulting in D2(severe) to D3(extreme) drought from north to south across the county.
D3(extreme) drought conditions covered county.
Drought conditions ranged from D3(extreme) to D4(exceptional) from northeast to southwest across the county.
Drought conditions ranged from D3(extreme) to D4(exceptional) from northeast to southwest across the county.
D3 drought conditions expanded into the western portions of the county, resulting in drought conditions ranging from D2(severe) to D3(extreme) from east to west across the county.
D3 drought conditions expanded into the southwestern portions of the county, resulting in drought conditions ranging from D1(moderate) to D3(severe) from northeast to southwest across the county.
D3 drought conditions expanded into the southwestern portions of the county, resulting in drought conditions ranging from D1(moderate) to D3(severe) from northeast to southwest across the county.
Drought conditions ranged from D1(moderate) to D2(severe) from northeast to southwest across the county.
Drought conditions ranged from D1(moderate) to D2(severe) from southeast to northwest across the county.
Drought conditions ranged from D0(abnormally dry) to D2(severe) from east to west across the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded further into western portions of the county, resulting in drought conditions ranged from D0(abnormally dry) to D2(severe) from east to west across the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded across most of the county.
Drought conditions were D2(severe) across most of the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded across most of the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded across most of the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded across most of the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded western portions of the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded western portions of the county.
D2(severe) drought conditions expanded western portions of the county.
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