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The Oklahoma Mesonet is a network of environmental monitoring stations designed to measure the environment at the size and duration of mesoscale weather events. The phrase "mesonet" is a portmanteau of the words mesoscale and network . The network consists of 120 automated stations covering Oklahoma and each of Oklahoma's counties has at least ...
The Mesonet is a joint project between the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University under the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. Find daily rainfall totals using this Oklahoma Mesonet ...
A weather map consisting of a station model plot of Oklahoma Mesonet data overlaid with WSR-88D weather radar data depicting possible horizontal convective rolls as a potential contributing factor in the incipient 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak A mobile mesonet also documented tornadic supercells and their immediate environments during this event.
The 2011 El Reno–Piedmont tornado was a long-tracked and deadly EF5 tornado that struck central Oklahoma on the evening of May 24, 2011. The tornado impacted areas near or within the communities of El Reno, Piedmont, and Guthrie, killing nine and injuring 181. After producing incredible damage in several locations along a path of more than 60 ...
Mobile Mesonet. Scientists and technicians from NSSL and the University of Oklahoma built their first Mobile Mesonet (MM) vehicles, a.k.a. “probes,” in 1992. Probes are modified minivans with a suite of weather instruments mounted atop a roof rack and a complex of computer and communication equipment inside.
May 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM. Although a line of severe storms formed Saturday afternoon and moved through Oklahoma, few tornadoes were able to form; those that did caused little damage. One tornado ...
The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large and powerful tornado that occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma during the early evening of Friday, May 31, 2013. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the preceding days.
March 15, 2024 at 7:04 AM. The atrium is pictured at the National Weather Center in Norman in 2022. NORMAN — A $50 million plan to boost the University of Oklahoma's top-ranked meteorology ...