Saturday, October 9, 2010

June 13-14, 2010 Severe Weather Event

Extreme storms impacted the Oklahoma Panhandle early Sunday morning with a quick tornado and harmful straight-line winds.  Later in the day, thunder storms redeveloped with numerous tornadoes reported in Beaver County.  Additionally,  thunderstorms moved across northwest Oklahoma where by a flash flood watch was posted via Monday a . m ..

Early Monday morning the thunderstorms moved into central Oklahoma and triggered a tremendous and potentially historic flash flooding event.  Widespread 6-8 inches of rain occurred within a few hours with stories upward of 10 inches.  Quite a few streets were closed,  including a few Interstates in addition to swift water rescues.  The flooding threat also impacted regions of northeast Oklahoma.

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