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I don't know if anyone lives near/in OKC but it's about to get interesting here...


URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 146
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1240 PM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of
Western Oklahoma
Northwest Texas

* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 1240 PM
until 800 PM CDT.

...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...

* Primary threats include...
Several tornadoes and a few intense tornadoes likely
Widespread large hail and scattered very large hail events to 3
inches in diameter likely
Widespread damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75
mph likely

SUMMARY...Intense thunderstorms are expected to develop this
afternoon along and east of a dryline over western Oklahoma and
northwest Texas. Supercells are expected, capable of very large
hail and damaging winds. The most intense cells may also produce
strong or potentially long-tracked tornadoes.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles
east and west of a line from 35 miles east northeast of Alva OK to
45 miles southwest of Wichita Falls TX. For a complete depiction of
the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS
WOU6).
 
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Multiple mile+ wide tornados on the ground at the same time in Oklahoma. Pretty close to each other. I think a third was down a little south too, also big, but not a monster. Gonna be bad news I fear.

Sulphur is getting hit twice. The first one did considerable damage too.

This post has a radar image: https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/s/VBajgmTAc4
I've seen the videos - Sulphur is gone.

Half of my team lives in the OKC metro. I was having to do accountability recalls all night long.
 
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I just cannot imagine standing there filming it when the tornado is basically a block away and you see your swingset go flying by in chunks.

I was in undergrad and we had a week of terrible weather. Sirens went off about every night. One evening the skies turned green and I stood outside watching them in amazement. My roommates were telling me to come inside, which I eventually did. One touched down just outside of town. About a year later I met someone who lived a block from where it hit. She said it sounded like a freight train coming down their street (the family was in the basement when it struck and they had just a few branches down).
 
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