Saturday, April 25, 2009

Heading west towards on I-40

Sunny skies with a puffy cu field overhead but with a capped look. Temperature currently is 83 degrees with a dewpoint of 66. Strong southeast wind 15-25mph continues to pump in the moist air. A tornado watch has been posted until 4z (11pm) as models and current conditions says initiation is within a hour away. Looking at the latest RUC the bulls eye of greatest tornado parameters continues to be just south of I-40 in Washita, Greer, Beckam, and Northern Kiowa counties. This is maximized at sunset between 23z and 2z with llj making 0-1km helicity values scream out strong or violent tornado. Map Below......


Tornado Watch now issued until 11pm for Very large hail up to 3inches in diameter and tornadoes.
Right now nothing on radar but visible satellite starting to show agitated cu to the west. Another update possibly later......

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