Oklahoma City, OK Hazardous Weather Outlook

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
Issue Date: 1145 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008
Expiration: 700 AM CDT WED JUL 09 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

DISCUSSION...
THUNDERSTORMS... OCCASIONALLY FORMING SHORT LINES OR SMALL
CLUSTERS... WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF OKLAHOMA AND PARTS OF
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE NIGHT. WEAK WINDS ALOFT AND A DEEP
LAYER OF MOIST AND WEAKLY UNSTABLE AIR WILL FAVOR DEVELOPMENT OF
THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN BUT MINIMAL SEVERE WEATHER
POTENTIAL. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCAL WINDS GUSTING TO 30 OR
40 MPH... AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL... BUT THE MAIN CONCERN
OVERNIGHT WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND THE POSSIBILITY OF
LOCALIZED FLOODING WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS.

PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY JUL 9.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...5 PERCENT.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH AND FRONTAL
BOUNDARY LINGER ACROSS THE AREA. ALTHOUGH WIND FIELDS WILL BE
WEAK... MODEST AMOUNTS OF INSTABILITY WILL EXIST FOR ISOLATED STRONG
TO POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING
HOURS. LOW CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY RETURN TO THE AREA SUNDAY
NIGHT INTO MONDAY.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
WEAK STEERING FLOW WILL LEAD TO SLOW-MOVING STORMS AND A
CONTINUING POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WEDNESDAY THROUGH
THURSDAY.

THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
WEDNESDAY.