{"id":51783,"date":"2023-04-20T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=51783"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:22:49","slug":"severe-weather-and-tornadoes-over-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/51783","title":{"rendered":"Severe Weather and Tornadoes over Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oklahoma City and surrounding areas were struck with severe weather last night, the night of Wednesday 2023-04-19. Nine tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, making a total of 15 tornadoes from the storm system. Tornadoes were also reported in Nebraska and Iowa. This severe weather took the lives of three Oklahomans.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Storm reports on 2023-04-19 from the Storm Prediction Center<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The radar reflectivity south of Norman, Oklahoma showed a distinct rotational pattern, which is noted in the animation below. The rotation can be seen in the reflectivity around the 00:20Z timestamp (7:20 pm local time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radar Reflectivity every five minutes over the Oklahoma City area from 2023-04-19 at 22:00Z to 2023-04-20 at 02:50Z. Rotation in the radar signature is annotated near the 00:20Z time stamp. You can recreate this animation<\/a> in RealEarth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Storm Prediction Center, appropriately located in Norman, OK, has issued a slight categorical outlook for today, 2023-04-20.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The severe weather outlook<\/a> for 2023-04-20.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City and surrounding areas were struck with severe weather last night, the night of Wednesday 2023-04-19. Nine tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, making a total of 15 tornadoes from the storm system. Tornadoes were also reported in Nebraska and Iowa. This severe weather took the lives of three Oklahomans. The radar reflectivity south of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":51787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-earth","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51790,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783\/revisions\/51790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}