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The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning until 6:45 a.m. Monday to include Oklahoma City and surrounding towns including Yukon, Mustang, Moore and Edmond.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
The University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University collaborated with the Climatological Survey and other public and private agencies to create the Oklahoma Mesonet. This system collects weather information (e.g., wind speed, rainfall, temperature) every 5 minutes from 121 Mesonet stations throughout Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma City metropolitan area is one of the most tornado-prone major cities in the world, with about 150 tornadoes striking within the city limits since 1890. Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by thirteen violent tornadoes, eleven F/EF4's and two F/EF5's. [4]
Oklahoma City tests its tornado sirens every Saturday at 12 p.m., unless there's already inclement weather to be expected. The noise can be quite jarring, especially if there's clear skies and sun.
Gary England (born October 3, 1939) is the former chief meteorologist for KWTV (channel 9), the CBS-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.England was the first on-air meteorologist to alert his viewers of a possible tornado using a commercial Doppler weather radar. [2]