Lingering Heavy Rain Threat Along the Central Gulf Coast; Rain in the Pacific Northwest; Critical Fire Weather

Locally heavy rainfall may bring flash flooding along the central Gulf Coast today and Saturday from southeast Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. A strong cold front will bring heavy rain with the arrival of cooler temperatures to the Northwest through the weekend. Widespread critical fire weather due to dry, gusty winds is forecast from the Great Basin into the northern Plains. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Fri, Sep. 17, 2021 at 5:40:12 pm CDT

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There is a marginal risk for short-lived strong to severe storms late this afternoon and evening across portions of western Oklahoma. The most likely time for severe weather impacts are expected between 5 PM and 10 PM.

There will be a chance for showers and thunderstorms this afternoon across northern and western Oklahoma.

Showers and storms will remain possible this evening and overnight across much of western Oklahoma and portions of western north Texas.

Strong cold front coming through on Tuesday, bringing rain chances across portions of central Oklahoma as well as more widespread seasonably cooler and mild mid-week temperatures. Gradual warmup to more seasonably average temperatures by late week.

Temperatures will increase for the weekend, but then a big cool down is expected beginning Tuesday next week.

The Fire Danger will be elevated next week on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons across portions of western Oklahoma.

Current Weather Observations...

Location	Time (CDT)	Weather	Vsby. (SM)	Temp. (ºF)	Dewpt. (ºF)	Hum. (%)	Wind (mph)	Wind Chill / Heat Index (ºF)	Pres. (in)
Oklahoma City, OK	13:52	Mostly Clear	10	89	64	43	SE 10	91 [HI]	30.04
Stillwater, OK	13:53	Mostly Clear	10	92	64	39	E 7	94 [HI]	30.04
Lawton, OK	13:53	Clear	10	91	65	42	ESE 9	93 [HI]	30.00
Wichita Falls, TX	13:52	Mostly Clear	10	93	65	39	ESE 9	95 [HI]	29.98
Ponca City, OK	13:53	Clear	10	91	64	40	SSE 10	93 [HI]	30.05
Enid, OK	13:56	Clear	10	91	65	41	ESE 9	93 [HI]	30.03
Alva, OK	14:35	Partly Cloudy	10	89	62	40	ESE 9G15	-	30.03
Woodward, OK	14:30	Clear	10	91	60	36	SE 15G21	91 [HI]	30.06
Gage, OK	13:53	Clear	10	93	62	35	SSE 16G24	94 [HI]	30.03
Watonga, OK	14:35	Partly Cloudy	10	92	63	38	ESE 12	93 [HI]	30.05
Clinton, OK	13:53	Clear	10	90	61	38	SSE 13G21	-	30.03
Weatherford, OK	14:35	Clear	10	91	62	38	SE 8	91 [HI]	30.02
Hobart, OK	13:53	Clear	10	93	61	34	SE 10G18	93 [HI]	30.01
Altus, OK	14:35	Haze	4	95	61	32	ESE 9G18	95 [HI]	30.00
Frederick, OK	13:53	Clear	10	94	63	36	SSE 13G17	95 [HI]	29.96
Ardmore, OK	13:50	Partly Cloudy	10	87	66	48	S 6	-	30.01
Ada, OK	14:35	Partly Cloudy	10	87	64	45	E 8	-	30.04
Shawnee, OK	14:35	Mostly Cloudy	10	88	59	37	CALM	-	30.03

Local Weather History For September 17th...

Scattered thunderstorms developed over western and northern Oklahoma
on this date in 2011. Many of the storms interacted with each other
and moved northeast into southern Kansas as a complex producing large
hail and very heavy rain. One storm, a supercell, remained discrete
and moved east and slightly southeast over far northern Oklahoma.
This maximized low-level wind shear to produce three brief tornadoes
over open country near Wakita, in Grant county.

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