It’s a precipitation explosion! Well, the event has commenced. Our spectacular 1/2 to 1″ of forecast snow for Dodge City has started, but look at what’s going on southeast of here. Freezing rain and sleet is blossoming across North Texas and Oklahoma. There are a lot of Facebook status reports of heavy sleet with thunder and lightning around Oklahoma City and Tulsa. The warm layer aloft appears to be maximized around 775mb, per the RUC, and I used that to gage the freezing rain and sleet corridors. IDV is a wonderful tool to combine radar mosaic and RUC analysis fields. It’s the closest thing I can get to an AWIPS display. See the figure below:
from the radar, it looks like its headed right for you
Comment by Tony Glickley — February 1, 2011 @ 2:23 am
I heard that thunder snow was reported in Joplin!
Comment by Nathan Raisbeck — February 1, 2011 @ 3:23 am