Stormgasms

[Hoss]

Now floods are the talk. Floods do more damage than a drought can ever do. So far the flood death count is 7 people, the flooding is worse to the east of Tulsa. Julia Chinn said that tonite more storms are coming in.

You actually watch the news for weather?  I figured you'd have had something more like this out your front door:

[TurismoDreamin]

Keep an eye on the weather today guys. SPC issued a moderate risk to include our area. CAPE (instability) values are nearly maxxed out, CIN (storm cap) is non existant, EHI values are maxxed out, LCLs are perfect, and there's so much moisture you can feel it the minute you walk outside. All that could translate to the perfect storm. I will be out chasing. There is a huge chance for damaging hail and a good chance for tornadoes in and around our area today.

Tomorrow looks to be just as perfect as well. Still need to wait until the rapid update cycle weather model comes into alignment tomorrow, but it may be a slow moving storm directly in the middle of OK and it will head this direction.

[rdj]

Looks like the indicators were correct yesterday.

Did you chase up I-44?

[BaltimorePoke]

Keep an eye on the weather today guys. SPC issued a moderate risk to include our area. CAPE (instability) values are nearly maxxed out, CIN (storm cap) is non existant, EHI values are maxxed out, LCLs are perfect, and there's so much moisture you can feel it the minute you walk outside. All that could translate to the perfect storm. I will be out chasing. There is a huge chance for damaging hail and a good chance for tornadoes in and around our area today.

Tomorrow looks to be just as perfect as well. Still need to wait until the rapid update cycle weather model comes into alignment tomorrow, but it may be a slow moving storm directly in the middle of OK and it will head this direction.

Looks like the tornado watch was just issued for Western & Central Oklahoma.  I'm curious, where do you go to find CAPE?

[nathanm]

NWS Tulsa recommends that you find your shoes, cash, and car keys, because they think today could get nasty, but tomorrow will be even worse. 

[Conan71]

Anyone else note the new metric they now include on storm tracking on the local TV?  Number of people to be affected.  Found that interesting.

[Hoss]

Anyone else note the new metric they now include on storm tracking on the local TV?  Number of people to be affected.  Found that interesting.

6 and 8 have been doing that since last season.  One-upsmanship by station for sure.

I really used to like Channel 6 for storm coverage, but after a while Travis Meyers gets on my nerves.  I'd much rather have Dick Faurot on doing coverage as primary.

[SXSW]

Anyone else note the new metric they now include on storm tracking on the local TV?  Number of people to be affected.  Found that interesting.

That is kinda cool.  I remember when a severe storm was headed right into south-central Tulsa County and the people affected was like 540,000.  If that storm would've been tornadic we could have had some serious problems.

[YoungTulsan]

Anyone else note the new metric they now include on storm tracking on the local TV?  Number of people to be affected.  Found that interesting.

Actually kind of odd for them to share that with the viewers, because it was probably a statistic they figured they needed to have to weigh how necessary it is to cover with live preemption of prime time programming.  Like today when a tornado warning was out for extreme western Osage County, it was pretty much unpopulated area - yet due to the fact that Osage County is adjacent to Tulsa County and is considered part of the MSA, the emergency alert system kicks in over all broadcasting and the stations with meteorologists kick in to non-stop coverage mode.

(for the geographically un-inclined, Osage County is huge and desolate)

[Townsend]

(for the geographically un-inclined, Osage County is huge and desolate)

Whoa whoa whoa...Osage almost had a 200 foot tall naked indian...almost.

[Red Arrow]

(for the geographically un-inclined, Osage County is huge and desolate)

Osage county has more land area than the State of Delaware.  Delaware is 2nd smallest with Rhode Island being smaller.

[Conan71]

Osage county has more land area than the State of Delaware.  Delaware is 2nd smallest with Rhode Island being smaller.

Explains the small brain in our V.P.

[Red Arrow]

Explains the small brain in our V.P.

No, there must be some other reason.  There are (at least were in the 60s & 70s) some reasonably smart people there at U of D.  There was also the usual crowd in the Liberal Arts side of campus.  I think that's where the VP went.

[joiei]

  I'd much rather have Dick Faurot on doing coverage as primary.

I agree.

[Red Arrow]

The Sunday evening, Travis said something that he followed up with by saying he'd been asked not to do that.  Unfortunately, I missed what he said since I let most of the talk go in one ear and out the other.  At least someone seems to be aware that things get too "exciting".