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The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege.
Texas, Oklahoma Wilbarger County (Texas), Jackson County (Oklahoma), Tillman County: 0 Tornaodes of 2011#November 7–8 – An Oklahoma Mesonet station measured a peak wind gust of 86.4 miles per hour (139.0 km/h) before being destroyed by flying debris. Rated EF4 based on damage to an Oklahoma State University research station.
The concert raised more than $6 million for the United Way of Central Oklahoma. On June 2, 2013, Discovery Channel aired an hour-long documentary about the storm titled Mile-Wide Tornado: Oklahoma Disaster. The documentary provides a comprehensive look at the tornado's impact and drew comparisons of the storm to the 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado.
Putnam is a town in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 30 as of the 2020 United States census. The community lies along U.S. Route 183. Geography. Putnam is located in southern Dewey County. Via US 183 it is 13 miles (21 km) north to Taloga, the county seat, and 22 miles (35 km) to Seiling.
The tornado then passed between Fort Reno and an Oklahoma Mesonet site, which recorded a sharp drop in atmospheric pressure, as well as a one-minute average wind speed of 115 mph (185 km/h) and a maximum wind gust of 151 mph (243 km/h) at 4:21 p.m. The gust was the highest wind speed ever recorded by the Oklahoma Mesonet.
Satellite image of the Oklahoma City area on June 2 displaying the ground scar left behind by the tornado. As the tornadoes approached the Oklahoma City metro, thousands of residents decided to leave the area for safety, possibly due to the still fresh memories of the devastation caused by the EF5 tornado that struck Moore on May 20.
An intense trough with dry line activity moved across the southern Plains, especially Oklahoma and southern Kansas, on May 10.For the fourth time in less than three weeks, a high risk of severe weather was issued by the Storm Prediction Center; the high risk covered portions of Oklahoma and Kansas from the interchange of I-35, I-40 and I-44 in the Oklahoma City area, northeastward into ...
The University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University collaborated with the Climatological Survey and other public and private agencies to create the Oklahoma Mesonet. This system collects weather information (e.g., wind speed, rainfall, temperature) every 5 minutes from 120 Mesonet stations throughout Oklahoma.