Tornado Watch
Expires 11:00 PM CDT on May 18, 2013
Statement as of 9:03 PM CDT on May 18, 2013
Tornado Watch 171 remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for the
following locations
OK
. Oklahoma counties included are
Alfalfa Beckham Blaine
Caddo Canadian Cleveland
Comanche Cotton Custer
Dewey Ellis Garfield
Garvin Grady Grant
Greer Harmon Harper
Jackson Jefferson Kay
Kingfisher Kiowa Lincoln
Logan McClain major
Noble Oklahoma Payne
Pottawatomie Roger Mills Stephens
Tillman Washita Woods
Woodward
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Expires 9:30 PM CDT on May 18, 2013
Statement as of 9:13 PM CDT on May 18, 2013
... A Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect until 930 PM CDT
for northern Tillman... Comanche... southern Caddo... Kiowa and
northeastern Jackson counties...
at 909 PM CDT... National Weather Service meteorologists continued to
detect severe thunderstorms located 5 miles southeast of Fort Cobb...
near Meers... 8 miles east of Mountain Park... 3 miles north of Tom
Steed Reservoir... and 5 miles northwest of Roosevelt. The storms
were moving northeast at 30 mph.
Hazards in the warning include...
large damaging hail up to Golf Ball size...
damaging winds in excess of 70 mph...
Locations impacted include...
Lawton... Altus... Anadarko... Cache... Apache... Snyder... Elgin...
Cyril... Fletcher... Blair... Sterling... cement... Lone Wolf... Mountain
park... Indiahoma... Medicine Park... Roosevelt... Headrick... Cooperton
and Altus Air Force Base.
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
Move inside a sturdy building until the storm has passed.
Lat... Lon 3481 9935 3482 9924 3487 9932 3491 9929
3497 9934 3500 9933 3506 9846 3525 9811
3468 9810 3468 9814 3451 9815 3451 9824
3463 9935
time... Mot... loc 0209z 229deg 26kt 3504 9837 3478 9863 3473 9882 3480
9901 3488 9910
..speg.
Record Report
Statement as of 5:08 PM CDT on May 18, 2013
... Record warmest maximum temperature broken at Wichita Falls...
The record warmest maximum temperature for may 18 at Wichita Falls
was 98 degrees... which was set back in 1967. So far today at
Sheppard Air Force base... the high temperature has been 101
degrees... which has broken the record for this date.
Temperature records for Wichita Falls date back to 1923.