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The Oklahoma Mesonet is a network of environmental monitoring stations designed to measure the environment at the size and duration of mesoscale weather events. The phrase "mesonet" is a portmanteau of the words mesoscale and network . The network consists of 120 automated stations covering Oklahoma and each of Oklahoma's counties has at least ...
A weather map consisting of a station model plot of Oklahoma Mesonet data overlaid with WSR-88D weather radar data depicting possible horizontal convective rolls as a potential contributing factor in the incipient 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak A mobile mesonet also documented tornadic supercells and their immediate environments during this event.
The 2011 El Reno–Piedmont tornado was a long-tracked and deadly EF5 tornado that struck central Oklahoma on the evening of May 24, 2011. The tornado impacted areas near or within the communities of El Reno, Piedmont, and Guthrie, killing nine and injuring 181. After producing incredible damage in several locations along a path of more than 60 ...
The mesonet station at El Reno recorded a wind gust of 151 mph (243 km/h) as the tornado passed by, which set a record for the highest wind speed observed by the Oklahoma Mesonet. This was the first EF5 tornado to strike Oklahoma since 1999, when an F5 tornado killed 36 people in and around southern and central parts of the Oklahoma City ...
May 25, 2024 at 9:20 PM. Although a line of severe storms formed Saturday afternoon and moved through Oklahoma, few tornadoes were able to form; those that did caused little damage. One tornado ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin, an unofficial, high-end classification of tornado warning—sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ...
The TWISTEX crew and the vehicles on equipped with mobile mesonets. TWISTEX (a backronym for Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment) was a tornado research experiment that was founded and led by Tim Samaras of Bennett, Colorado, US, that ended in the deaths of three researchers in the 2013 El Reno tornado.
March 15, 2024 at 7:04 AM. The atrium is pictured at the National Weather Center in Norman in 2022. NORMAN — A $50 million plan to boost the University of Oklahoma's top-ranked meteorology ...