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Get the Oklahoma City, OK local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The Oklahoma City metropolitan area is one of the most tornado-prone major cities in the world, with about 150 tornadoes striking within the city limits since 1890. Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by thirteen violent tornadoes, eleven F/EF4's and two F/EF5's.
Oklahoma City ( / ˌoʊkləˈhoʊmə -/ ⓘ ), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, [9] it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and is the 8th largest city in the Southern United States.
The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was a large, long-lived and exceptionally powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally were recorded at 135 metres per second (302 mph; 486 km/h) by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar. Considered the strongest tornado ever recorded to have affected the metropolitan area, the ...
In central Oklahoma, severe weather is expected from 7-11 p.m. Severe thunderstorms, an elevated tornado potential and golf ball to tennis ball size hail are forecasted in the eastern part of ...
David Payne (born July 16, 1968) is an American television meteorologist and storm chaser. He currently serves as the chief meteorologist for CBS affiliate KWTV-DT (channel 9) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . From 1993 to 2012, he served as a meteorologist for Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4), providing forecasts for the station's ...
The National Weather Center ( NWC ), on the campus of the University of Oklahoma, is a confederation of federal, state, and academic organizations that work together to better understand events that take place in Earth's atmosphere over a wide range of time and space scales. [1] The NWC partners give equal attention to applying that ...
Climate change in Oklahoma. Köppen climate types in Oklahoma showing most of the state to now be humid subtropical. Regions of the High Plains Aquifer System where the water level has declined in the period 1980-1995 are shown in yellow and red. Climate change in Oklahoma encompasses the effects of climate change, attributed to man-made ...