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Lots of things to talk about today
Lots of things to talk about today. Is there an echo in here? First and foremost, it rained last night! Definitely a cause for celebration for those that got wet, and hopefully signs of things to come over the next several days. In fact, it's still raining in eastern Oklahoma. Here's the Mesonet total map (I went back two days just in case). It shows mostly light rain, but a few areas pockmarked with over an inch.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20120926/rainrfc.48hr.png
The storms that moved through the state formed into a bow echo, a particular formation that can be indicative of exceptionally strong winds. The Mesonet recorded several instances of gusts 60 mph or greater last night, including a 70 mph gust from our site at Ketchum Ranch near Duncan and a 72 mph reading at Butler.
-****- Station Wind Gusts Date Time Butler 72 mph Sep 25 7:20 PM CDT Ketchum Ranch 70 mph Sep 26 4:55 AM CDT Bessie 67 mph Sep 25 7:45 PM CDT Medicine Park 66 mph Sep 26 2:45 AM CDT Minco 66 mph Sep 25 9:40 PM CDT Minco 65 mph Sep 25 9:35 PM CDT Hobart 61 mph Sep 25 8:50 PM CDT Medicine Park 60 mph Sep 25 10:15 PM CDT Weatherford 60 mph Sep 25 8:15 PM CDT Weatherford 60 mph Sep 25 8:05 PM CDT Bessie 60 mph Sep 25 7:50 PM CDT Weatherford 59 mph Sep 25 8:10 PM CDT Bessie 59 mph Sep 25 7:40 PM CDT -***-
Our Stillwater site got into the act as well with a thought-to-be-rare-but- known-to-be-more-common-since-the-Mesonet-came-online heat burst last night. The Stillwater meteogram tells the story. Winds gusted from the south at about 50 mph last night about 12:15am and the temperatures rose from 83 degrees at 12:10am to 95 degrees at 12:35am. The dewpoint and relative humidity bottomed out at that time, giving Stillwater a nice blast with the hair drier. Notice not a single drop of rain fell in the rain gauge (maybe it did but evaporated). All of those factors are a telltale sign of a heat burst, a dying storm dumping it's evaporatively-cooled air to the surface where it compresses and warms (i.e., the hair drier effect ... or in my case, a scalp drier).
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20120926/STIL.met.gif
As for future rainfall potential, the HPC is still thinking lots of nice rain for Oklahoma, still mentioning the interaction of the remnants of Hurricane Miriam and the stationary front across our area. The key to it all is the return of moisture over the Southern Plains from our old friend the Gulf of Mexico. There will be a lot of water in the atmosphere looking for a focus, and the parameters above should give us that focus.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20120926/5day-rain.gif
Whatever the reason, we likes!
Gary McManus Associate State Climatologist Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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