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"A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS WINTER STORM SITUATION" FOR OKC AREA

  • FYI ........ stay safe!

    THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS WINTER STORM SITUATION

    Winter Storm Warning

    Click for full Information
    http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=OKZ029&warncounty=OKC027&firewxzone=OKZ029&local_place1=3+Miles+S+Moore+OK&product1=Winter+Storm+Warning

    THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM
    WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... WHICH IS
    IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM MONDAY TO 6 PM CST TUESDAY FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL
    AND NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

    ********THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS WINTER STORM SITUATION...

    WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR BLIZZARD OR NEAR-BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ALONG WITH
    LIFE-THREATENING WIND CHILLS.

    *********TRAVEL IS LIKELY TO BECOME EXTREMELY
    DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING.

    ALL RESIDENTS IN
    CENTRAL AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA ARE URGED TO TAKE THIS DEVELOPING
    WINTER STORM SERIOUSLY AND PLAN FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF
    SIGNIFICANT DISRUPTIONS BY LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING

    This post was edited by OU48A on 1/30/2011 at 3:59 PM

    OU48A

  • TIMB0B

  • I have seen particularly dangerous tornado watches issued and tornado emergency’s issued but I have never seen a particularly dangerous winter storm warning issued.

    Is this a new type of warning?
    fishing

    OU48A

  • What are the odds that they're overhyping this thing so they don't look like fools again by underestimating the storm like they did xmas 2009? My prediction is 73 and sunny.

    OU_dup

  • I don’t think they have a very clear idea on the exact track and timing of the storm.
    When they get a better handle they will have a much better idea about the amounts and types of precipitation.

    Apparently some of the weather models very greatly.
    This is not likely to happen but this model shows a 20” snow for the OKC area. But if it did happen with the wind and cold they are expecting we would be stranded for days with the way they clear snow in our area.
    http://wxcaste

    r4.com/nam/CONUS1_MESO-ETA212_SFC_ACCUMSNOWFALL-KUCHERA_60HR.gif

    panic

    OU48A

  • OU48A said...

    I don’t think they have a very clear idea on the exact track and timing of the storm. When they get a better handle they will have a much better idea about the amounts and types of precipitation.

    Apparently some of the weather models very greatly. This is not likely to happen but this model shows a 20” snow for the OKC area. But if it did happen with the wind and cold they are expecting we would be stranded for days with the way they clear snow in our area.

    check out this link

    http://wxcaster4.com/nam/CONUS1_MESO-ETA212_SFC_ACCUMSNOWFALL-KUCHERA_60HR.gif

    OU48A

  • OUDodger said...

    What are the odds that they're overhyping this thing so they don't look like fools again by underestimating the storm like they did xmas 2009? My prediction is 73 and sunny.

    Yes please, to your prediction! :)

    ss182

  • I'm freaking out after seeing the weather reports, it's looking like a huge mess! I'm tempted to head towards somewhere warm and just skip the whole thing! lol

    ss182

  • Expecting 8 to 16 inches in Tulsa and northest.

    MannaSooner

  • I don't mind the extra day off, I just hope the power stays on!

    Jan76

  • But if it did happen with the wind and cold they are expecting we would be stranded for days with the way they clear snow in our area.panic
    .

    No need to worry 48A. They said on the news tonight they won't plow the snow until it stops snowing.
    panic

    "It won't even be close." - clsi1

    NickDanger

  • I hope it does dump on us. It gives me a few days off of work.

    oumodguy

  • Reminds me of the glory days of high school, when days off for snow meant attaching something to the back of a truck and finding an open, flat field. Great times.

    Stuck in Mexas

  • NickDanger said...

    No need to worry 48A. They said on the news tonight they won't plow the snow until it stops snowing.

    Nick in my neighborhood the sun is basically our snow plow.

    But the neighbors have gotten together before and shovel out the bigger drifts in our streets.
    A Humvee and another 4 wheel drive got stuck in a big drift in front of my house during the 2009 Christmas Eve storm. Hopefully this storm won’t be as bad but I have been thinking about what I could use for a snow fence.

    OU48A

  • OU48A said...

    Nick in my neighborhood the sun is basically our snow plow.

    But the neighbors have gotten together before and shovel out the bigger drifts in our streets. A Humvee and another 4 wheel drive got stuck in a big drift in front of my house during the 2009 Christmas Eve storm. Hopefully this storm won’t be as bad but I have been thinking about what I could use for a snow fence.

    I guess your neighborhood is gated?

    soonerprices

  • Stuck in Mexas said...

    Reminds me of the glory days of high school, when days off for snow meant attaching something to the back of a truck and finding an open, flat field. Great times.

    some guys in my high school did just that...
    an old car hood....in a field next to the school.....
    but then the rope broke....
    and the hood slid under a row of old evergreen trees...
    and there was a light pole on the other side....
    and one of them died on impact....

    87sooner

  • 87sooner said...

    some guys in my high school did just that... an old car hood....in a field next to the school..... but then the rope broke.... and the hood slid under a row of old evergreen trees... and there was a light pole on the other side.... and one of them died on impact....

    What a wonderful story! Please tell me more.

    thumbdown

    TIMB0B

  • soonerprices said...

    I guess your neighborhood is gated?

    The city of Norman doesn’t plow residential streets.
    I guess I should ask my neighborhood association if we could hire a service to at least break the big drifts.
    No my neighborhood is not gated but I would bet that I’m the only person living in my neighborhood who has ever been paid to operate a large snow plow

    OU48A

  • Snow fall predictions
    http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/enhanced.php

    This is the 11:39 National Weather Service briefing
    http://www.srh.noaa.gov/media/oun/player.html

    OU48A

  • My neck of the woods is suppose to get rain, changing to sleet, then 1-2 inches of snow. I hope everyone stays safe if you live in the path of "near blizzard conditions"! I say better safe than sorry. Get stocked up on groceries, medicine, and whatever else you need. (this is for DM.......liquor, porn mags, etc.)

    You all stay safe!
    Huggies,
    Okieigirl

    okiegirl

  • I'm using today to prepare my will.

    4OK Sooner

  • Some friends and I went in on a 1974 Chevy Caprice station wagonthat we paid $250 cash for the day before the snowstorm in March '94. We built a ramp on the playground of the local elementary school the morning of the storm and took turns ramping the old wagon until the axle broke. We left it sitting there until school officials had it dragged away the next week :)

    HTownBoom

  • HTownBoom said...

    Some friends and I went in on a 1974 Chevy Caprice station wagonthat we paid $250 cash for the day before the snowstorm in March '94. We built a ramp on the playground of the local elementary school the morning of the storm and took turns ramping the old wagon until the axle broke. We left it sitting there until school officials had it dragged away the next week :)

    I'm telling on you.......

    okiegirl

  • Looks as though my prediction of 73 and sunny might be a bit off. I hit the liquor store so I'm ready to settle in and watch the local guessers (weathermen) attempt to hide the swelling in their pants as they needlessly cut in on programming.

    OU_dup

  • My drive to work tomorrow is going to be brutal. It doesn't help when you have a pickup riding on 22's like mine does lol!!!!!

    Landry Jones - "Sooner Nation needs the stache"

    SoonerDan74012

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