Ad
related to: tornado observatory oklahoma county
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Several destructive tornadoes have hit the state of Oklahoma since 1882, the year with the first recorded tornado within state boundaries. Oklahoma, located in Tornado Alley, experiences around 68 tornadoes annually, with each EF3+ tornado killing an average of 2.9 persons. 497 tornadoes have been classified as "intense" in Oklahoma, being rated F3+ on the Fujita Scale [note 1] or EF3+ on the ...
The TOtable Tornado Observatory (nicknamed "TOTO") is a large, instrumented barrel-shaped device invented in 1979 by engineers Dr. Al Bedard and Carl Ramzy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL), and Dr. Howard Bluestein, meteorologist at the University of Oklahoma (OU).
A line of storms passing through Oklahoma overnight spawned several destructive tornadoes.
In Tulsa County, about 100 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, lightning strikes set a house aflame. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an emergency declaration for six counties impacted by the storms.
The tornado is here in its early stage of formation near Union City, Oklahoma In 1962 a research team from the United States Weather Bureau's National Severe Storms Project (NSSP) moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Norman, Oklahoma , where, in 1956, the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory had installed a 3 cm continuous-wave Doppler Weather ...
Only three whole states are part of tornado alley: Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Parts of Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska, eastern Colorado and the northern part of Texas are considered part of the alley.
Meteorologists reported severe storms in parts of central and south-central Oklahoma as 4 p.m. drew near. A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until 4:30 p.m. for Coal and Johnston ...
A low-end F2 tornado touched down in the Ardmore, Oklahoma area. This tornado is notable due to the TOtable Tornado Observatory getting its closest to a tornado, being sideswiped by the edge of the storm. This storm brought the realization that TOTO had a center of gravity too high for extreme wind, resulting in it falling down when it got ...