Ticker for September 19, 2002

                
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Cold Front Sparks Severe Weather

A strong cold front continues to usher much cooler air into the
northwestern two-thirds of Oklahoma, after triggering a round of
severe weather yesterday evening into this morning (see tables
below).

Temperatures at some locations behind the front are almost
40 degrees cooler than yesterday afternoon:



The Butler Mesonet site, recipient of an 80 mph wind gust yesterday,
experienced a temperature drop of almost 25 degrees in five minutes:




Selected Mesonet Rainfall

Burbank      3.59"    Guthrie      2.24"    Newkirk      1.88"
Copan        3.22"    Breckinridge 2.22"    Nowata       1.80"
El Reno      2.95"    Red Rock     2.15"    Hinton       1.75"
Broken Bow   2.96"    Washington   2.14"    Spencer      1.73"
Blackwell    2.69"    Medford      2.02"    Marena       1.72"
Kingfisher   2.61"    Vinita       1.98"    Shawnee      1.72"
Idabel       2.40"    Stillwater   1.90"    Marshall     1.59"


Selected Mesonet Wind Gusts

Station     Gust    Date/Time       Station     Gust    Date/Time
Hobart      85 mph  Wed 4:50 p      El Reno     52 mph  Wed 9:45 p
Butler      80 mph  Wed 6:50 p      Altus       52 mph  Wed 9:35 p
Putnam      74 mph  Wed 7:25 p      El Reno     50 mph  Wed 9:50 p
Butler      67 mph  Wed 6:55 p      Lahoma      50 mph  Wed 7:00 p
Hectorville 52 mph  Thu 1:30 a      Apache      50 mph  Wed 6:55 p