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WOW These cooking outflow boundaries with big instability, easterly surface winds beneath modest westerlies always produce the biggest, strongest wedge tornadoes in the Great Plains. WATCH OUT OKC #tornado threat 5-11 pm!

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Texas is ok tho?

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Reed Timmer, PhD1 year ago

Can you please watch the video

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TornadoVortices1 year ago

Kinda remind me of El Reno but I hope not.

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Pattye 🦉🇺🇲 🇺🇦1 year ago

Thank you Reed. Stay safe. That beard and mustache are looking very attractive

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5G1 year ago

uhm

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Opie Winston1 year ago

You all gonna be out chasing them?

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J C Adams1 year ago

More rain, Shad? ☝️☝️ @yearlins

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