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[azbadpuppy]

Did anyone watch NOVA last night?

Very interesting report on storm chasers and scientists from OU and the NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman. Apparently a scientist at OU is developing a test system of mini satellites to be set up like a net throughout most of central Oklahoma to better study and predict major tornado outbreaks.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tornado/

[Conan71]

Did anyone watch NOVA last night?

Very interesting report on storm chasers and scientists from OU and the NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman. Apparently a scientist at OU is developing a test system of mini satellites to be set up like a net throughout most of central Oklahoma to better study and predict major tornado outbreaks.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tornado/

I didn't see that, but can you imagine working at the national storms center, walking outside and seeing a tornado touch down just to the east of your building?  Talk about a bonanza for a weather geek!

I was looking at some of the NOAA edited time frames and there were many points where windspeeds in the storms were caught on anemometers which is helpful and a direct data point rather than having to be extrapolated from dopper data.

[patric]

There's some good news as the death toll was downgraded to two.

But upped again to three counting a woman who died trying to reach a shelter.

[azbadpuppy]

But upped again to three counting a woman who died trying to reach a shelter.

I have seen everything from 2 to 7 deaths reported since 9am this morning. So is it officially 3?

[patric]

I have seen everything from 2 to 7 deaths reported since 9am this morning. So is it officially 3?

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100512_12_A1_PalBal412998

[bmuscotty]

This morning was fun. I love getting woke up at 5:00am to stuff pounding on the roof and the tornado sirens going off.

[custosnox]

This morning was fun. I love getting woke up at 5:00am to stuff pounding on the roof and the tornado sirens going off.

I slept right through it.  The bad thing about storms making me sleep well is one of these days I'm going to wake up in Oz

[Conan71]

I heard nothing. I looked out in my back yard when I got up before 7 and saw we got pretty good rain and I had a few fresh leaves and twigs out of my trees.  My mother called at 7:30 and said her neighborhood near 61st & Harvard looked like a hurricane had gone through.  She's either got a tree or big limbs down.  I tried to go over there before coming to the office and I couldn't get up Yale.  Traffic was backed up apparently from 38th south to 91st.  Harvard was not much better.  I friend near 87th & 49th W. Ave said he's missing a storage shed from his backyard.

[Hoss]

I heard nothing. I looked out in my back yard when I got up before 7 and saw we got pretty good rain and I had a few fresh leaves and twigs out of my trees.  My mother called at 7:30 and said her neighborhood near 61st & Harvard looked like a hurricane had gone through.  She's either got a tree or big limbs down.  I tried to go over there before coming to the office and I couldn't get up Yale.  Traffic was backed up apparently from 38th south to 91st.  Harvard was not much better.  I friend near 87th & 49th W. Ave said he's missing a storage shed from his backyard.

NWS says that the storm that hit near US 75 and 71st to 81st was an EF0 to EF1 tornado.  The rest of the city, not so sure yet.  That likely explains your friend's loss of storage shed.  The only thing that happened to me is the door to my storage shed blew open.  Not uncommon for storms for me anyway.  Probably helps that I live in somewhat of a valley south of the Vegas Club.

[Gaspar]

I think all of the weather men should have scary Halloween masks, and when the sirens come on at 5am in the morning, they should quickly put on their masks, so when we flip on the TV we take them more seriously than we currently do.

This morning. . . ME- "Honey, wake up, the siren is going off."  HER- "Screw the siren, turn off the light, it's 5am"  ME- "But the weather man says their is wind!"  HER- "I sleep with you, there is always wind."

[bmuscotty]

I live near 71st and Riverside in the path of whatever it was. Found some small tree limbs and branches and a few shingles and pieces of insulation in my yard. My roof is ok so who knows where it came from.

[TheTed]

I woke up to the sirens and turned on channel 6. They seemed awfully calm and didn't seem to know why the sirens were even going off for a minute or two. I guess downtown missed the worst of it, but it looked like a pretty standard spring storm from here. I was surprised to see all the damage reports from other parts of town.

[PepePeru]

I woke up to the sirens and turned on channel 6. They seemed awfully calm and didn't seem to know why the sirens were even going off for a minute or two. I guess downtown missed the worst of it, but it looked like a pretty standard spring storm from here. I was surprised to see all the damage reports from other parts of town.

Few people watch TV at 5am.  There isn't a grab for ratings like there is in the evenings.

The sirens woke me up too, though, it took me a minute to even realize what it was.  by the time I got out of bed and turned on the TV, the storm had basically passed our location.

I've never heard such a wussy high pitched storm siren.  That thing needs to be replaced.  They need to put in that style of siren some of the ambulances have, where you almost feel it in your body, that low-pitched sort of weird noise.

[Gaspar]

I woke up to the sirens and turned on channel 6. They seemed awfully calm and didn't seem to know why the sirens were even going off for a minute or two. I guess downtown missed the worst of it, but it looked like a pretty standard spring storm from here. I was surprised to see all the damage reports from other parts of town.

Wouldn't it have been better if they were wearing zombie masks and chasing each other around the studio groaning "Doppler 6000. . .Doppler 60000. . .must have Doppler 60000!"

Or perhaps they could just make odd remarks like "If you are naked, and outside of your house, you may want to take cover now."

I remember the days of the old Doppler 2.  It was black and white, and you had to wind it.

[sauerkraut]

I think it's time for some regulation here. The weather stations just go nuts and that is putting lives in harms way should the real thing hit. They have weather all the time on channel 2.2 and channel 6.2 but they still repeat the same crap on channel 2.1 & channel 6.1.. They even ran the weather over the popular TV show "Deal or No Deal"