Enjoy warmer weather the next few days. An artic blast into Oklahoma is expected early next week, bringing with it winter weather. To give you an idea, the forecast for the next couple of days includes sunshine and temps in the 50’s. The forecast high temp for Sunday is 71
Author: Tim
Tim is a storm chaser and photographer from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Update: August 28, 2009 — The debris has been cleaned up. Only a few residents remain in Picher. The City offices have closed. One Sunday morning I decided to take a day-trip into northeast Oklahoma to visit the small mining town of Picher. Picher was nearly destroyed by an F4
The weather pattern was unpredictable, to say the least. We didn’t really start chasing until about 6:00 p.m., after watching the discussions and SPC predictions through the day. My first pick for a theater was in western Kansas, around Medicine Lodge. The models were showing this area as the best spot
I didn’t chase the May 10th storms, which produced tornadoes near McAlester and the deadly tornadoes in Picher, Oklahoma, so I was watching the weather discussions closely. Through the day, although the NWS was predicting isolated thunderstorms for late afternoon, nothing seemed to be developing. At 6:00 p.m., a storm
There’s not a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. It’s a McDonald’s. After looking at the forecast and model data at 4:30 a.m., I was wondering if I’d be wasting a day of vacation to chase this storm system. The Tulsa area was getting rain. Just rain.
May 1st started like any other storm day — asking myself, “what’s it going to do, where’s the target area?” At first thought, it looked like Osage County would be the place to be, but I talked myself out of that and headed to SE Kansas. Little did I know