Ticker for August 27, 2002

                
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Severe Thunderstorms Rake State

Very strong straight-line winds associated with a mesoscale
convective system raked much of western Oklahoma in the last 18 hours
or so.  The MCS presented a few bow echoes during its southward march
across the state, and the Mesonet has the numbers to corroborate.

These southward-marching MCS's are not uncommon in Oklahoma during
August.  They bring valuable rainfall during a climatologically dry
time of year. Much of the area serviced by this MCS's rainfall has been
recently plagued by long-term drought, so several inch-plus rainfall
values were highly appreciated, despite coming at the expense of broken
limbs, downed trees and some power outages.

Rainfall from this MCS seemed to prefer new Mesonet stations, as
two-inch values were recorded at two of the network's most recent
additions, at Bee and Norman.


Selected 24-hour Rainfall Totals

Bee           2.21"    Pauls Valley  1.59"    Acme          1.20"
Durant        2.16"    Buffalo       1.37"    Apache        1.15"
Norman        2.00"    Ketchum Ranch 1.35"    Chickasha     1.13"
Madill        1.68"    Minco         1.30"    Waurika       1.13"
Ardmore       1.65"    Fort Cobb     1.21"    Tishomingo    1.10"


Selected Oklahoma Mesonet Wind Observations

Weatherford 80 mph  Tue  2:05a     Seiling     61 mph  Tue 12:55a
Seiling     70 mph  Tue  1:00a     Apache      60 mph  Tue  3:25a
Norman      69 mph  Tue  3:30a     Apache      60 mph  Tue  3:10a
Weatherford 69 mph  Tue  2:10a     Hobart      60 mph  Tue  3:00a
Slapout     69 mph  Mon 11:25p     Hobart      60 mph  Tue  2:50a
Woodward    68 mph  Tue 12:25a     Weatherford 60 mph  Tue  2:15a
Buffalo     68 mph  Mon 11:45p     Bessie      60 mph  Tue  2:10a
Washington  67 mph  Tue  4:00a     Putnam      60 mph  Tue  1:25a
Camargo     66 mph  Tue  1:00a     Lahoma      60 mph  Tue  1:20a
Slapout     65 mph  Mon 11:35p     Apache      59 mph  Tue  3:15a
Apache      64 mph  Tue  3:20a     Apache      59 mph  Tue  3:05a
Seiling     64 mph  Tue  1:10a     Slapout     59 mph  Mon 11:45p
Buffalo     64 mph  Mon 11:50p     Slapout     59 mph  Mon 11:30p
Ringling    63 mph  Tue  5:25a     Hobart      58 mph  Tue  3:05a
Camargo     63 mph  Tue  3:35a     Retrop      58 mph  Tue  2:55a
Hinton      63 mph  Tue  2:20a     Watonga     58 mph  Tue  1:55a
Slapout     63 mph  Mon 11:40p     Seiling     58 mph  Tue  1:05a
Ninnekah    61 mph  Tue  3:30a     Slapout     58 mph  Mon 11:20p
Minco       61 mph  Tue  2:55a     Ringling    57 mph  Tue  5:30a
Watonga     61 mph  Tue  2:00a     Waurika     57 mph  Tue  4:20a