NWS Norman surveyed four tornadoes from yesterday’s (March 5, 2026) severe weather event, which included two EF-2 tornadoes (Fairview and Helena) and two EF-1 tornadoes (Wakita and Orienta/Cleo Springs)
Average lead time for the tornadoes approximately ranged from 12-40 minutes
You know it’s out of control when the Meteorologist in Charge (MIC) has to beg and plead to spread the word
The folks at NWS Norman (and all NWS Forecast offices) are trained professionals and are monitoring these situations extremely closely - they’ve got this
Use those phones for actual reports
MRMS Rotation Tracks for the long-lived, cyclic tornadic supercell in northwest Oklahoma
Looks like the Fairview @mesonet.org station had a close encounter with the tornado - check out the rapid wind shift and the pressure drop on the meteogram #okwx
This tornado is occluding right around the Vance AFB radar (KVNX)
The folks at the OUN office are not in the path of this tornado and are working diligently out of the National Weather Center in Norman to provide life-saving warnings
Cyclic tornadic supercell from Fairview, OK all the way to just south of the Vance AFB radar near Nash, OK #okwx
YouTube TV was made for this: multiview severe weather coverage in Oklahoma
For the very first time under the new conditional intensity outlooks from the Storm Prediction Center (which just started yesterday), we have visual intensity representations for all three hazards, including: tornado (first time), hail (second time), and wind (first time)
And they’re for OK/TX/KS
It’s only fitting that the Southern Plains would be the first recipients of the brand-new conditional intensity outlooks from the Storm Prediction Center
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Every state in the continental U.S. has recorded snowfall this season
Rhode Island T.F Green International Airport (KPVD) in Providence, Rhode Island is crushing the record for daily snowfall - up to 37.9 inches as of 7:01 PM local
If I send you this picture, it means I’m marked safe from severe weather
Incredible high-resolution imagery from polar-orbiting satellites NOAA-20 VIIRS and NOAA-21 VIIRS of the wildfires that impacted the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles and into Kansas
Before and after photos of the Woodward Oklahoma Mesonet station that was impacted by the wildfire on February 17, 2026 (and melted some of the 2-m instrumentation) #okwx
The 2-m wind sensor at the Woodward Oklahoma Mesonet station melted yesterday as a result of a wildfire (and caused the 2-m temperature sensor to spike to 122°F)
This radar image from KVNX at 4:30 PM shows a smoke plume emanating from the approximate area of the Woodward Mesonet station #okwx
Wildfires in the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles are showing signs of subsiding, but the wildfire threat continues for the next two days for the same areas #okwx
Active wildfires (with Fire Warnings) ongoing in the panhandle of Oklahoma
Wildfire conditions are critical to extreme for the next few days in Oklahoma with warm, windy, and dry conditions #okwx
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Visible satellite imagery showing cloud streets streaming over the Gulf and Atlantic as cold air races over the warmer ocean waters
Never in a million years would I have imagined that my trivia hosting would bring me to this moment
You can travel from the NWS El Paso (TX/NM) CWA all the way to the NWS Caribou (ME) CWA and never leave a Winter Storm Warning
She didn’t make it that far outside before turning around 🐾
Oklahoma has upgraded their snowplow game ❄️
Whole Lotta Love for Sled Zeppelin 🎸❄️
oksnowplows.org
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/plotting/auto/
142+ million people are currently under a Winter Storm Warning stretching from New Mexico/Texas all the way to New England
This Winter Storm Warning covers 2,213,250 square kilometers, which is larger than the February 2021 Winter Storm Warning (2,151,716 square kilometers)
83+ million people are currently under a Winter Storm Warning
145+ million people are currently under a Cold Weather Advisory
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One of the Hurricane Hunter aircraft is currently sampling our impending winter storm/low-pressure system out in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles 😲
