Morning Showers, Blustery Winds Possible In The Afternoon

A strong, compact upper level, cold-core low is positioned across the panhandle region this morning with a surface low nearby. Strong southerly flow with dew points in the upper 50s and lower 60s continue flowing into the system at the surface while a stout mid to upper-level flow from the southwest with winds nearing 80 to 90 knots is underway. Scattered thunderstorms have already formed this morning across northwestern OK and are racing northeast into south-central Kansas, producing some hail.

Wednesday, March 17th 2021, 6:01 am

By: Alan Crone

The morning storm activity has quickly exited the metro and the severe weather threats will mostly be confined to extreme eastern OK and western Arkansas for the next few hours. But the main upper level, cold-core low will pass directly overhead later this afternoon with some additional showers developing. The atmosphere may destabilize slightly and allow some low-topped storms producing small hail before sunset. This cold-core low may also allow some showers mixing with some snowflakes across far NE Ok and SE Kansas later tonight into early Thursday morning. We’re not expecting too much with this part, but the hi-res data has recently suggested some small accumulations would be possible across far NE OK into SE Kansas. We’ve not added that into the forecast for now, but it’s something to watch.

Temps & Rain Chances

Blustery winds are likely to move into the region later this afternoon and evening as the main upper-level system moves eastward. This should trigger wind advisories later tonight into early tomorrow with northwest winds from 20 to 45 mph before diminishing through midday. The highs tomorrow will stay in the upper 40s and lower 50s.

Temperature

Friday looks cool but pleasant. The weekend is good, yet breezy Sunday in advance of our next chance of thunderstorms Monday.

Thanks for reading the Wednesday morning weather discussion and blog.

Have a safe day.

Alan Crone

KOTV

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