Ticker for July 28, 1999

                
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It's Been A While

With the exception of three panhandle stations (Beaver, Hooker, Kenton),
no Mesonet station has received at least one-quarter inch of rainfall
in 18 days.  Here are the Mesonet stations which have gone the longest
since a "quarter-inch day":

Cloudy         35 days
Ringling       35 days
Burneyville    33 days
Ketchum Ranch  33 days
Walters        33 days
Waurika        33 days
Idabel         32 days
Tishomingo     29 days
Grandfield     29 days


Eastern Oklahoma Continues to Swelter

The latest heat index map, updated every 15 minutes at:

shows Mesonet heat indices greater than 110 F over much of eastern
Oklahoma as of 3:00 pm.  The state's most extreme heat indices have
been within about 60 miles of the Tulsa metropolitan area for the
majority of the afternoon.